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Small apartment decorating is always a challenge. Inspiring solutions can be found in many areas: from storage to color composition and from decorating to using modern and versatile furniture with multiple use. Searching for small apartment solutions can take up a lot of time, but be prepared to stumble upon so many ideas that it will be hard to choose the right one for your home.

Start with making a list of the things you need, like storage facilities and take into account that, by using colors, light and mirrors, you can create the illusion of a bigger space. A small apartment can be just as relaxing and comfortable as an apartment with a large floor plan if you use functional furniture and unconventional space delimitations.

A personalized small apartment solution can come from the decision of using custom made furniture that will help your small apartment reach its full potential. Custom furniture can be an effective solution for maximising small spaces in apartments; creating a “wow-factor” with a statement piece; custom designer homes with specific décor requirements.

Try to use every available space and think out of the box. Use sliding doors and mirrors to hide storage space. In the bedroom, use the underside part of your bed for keeping linens or even consider a bunk bed and use the lower part as office space. There are many ideas that can help you decorate a small apartment and a good interior designer can customize the space in a way that you and your family can connect to, so don’t hesitate to ask for help.

Slide is the Italian company, leader in producing of furniture of plastic by the method of rotomolding. Almost any element of Slide can be supplemented with illumination and this is one of the main features of the brand. Bars, armchairs, sittings, street flower pots – all this furniture is also the additional light.

The company appeared in 2002 and positions itself as a brand producing designer furniture. The main idea of the company is to create the functional and beautiful things for home. Three whales of production of slide are – the simplest material – polyethylene, techniques of rotomolding and ideas of outstanding designers.

Rotomolding is quite simple technological process which has the row of unique advantages allowing it taking the important place in the range of main methods of recycling of plastics. For producing the power polyethylene of low density is used. In the cell of warming the rotating of the form around two axes with the speed about 10 rotations per minute. Owing to this the polymer is melting and spreading equally on the walls of the form. After the forming the article is cooled with either water or the flow of cold air.

In 2007 the company Slide Events appeared and started working together with Slide Design and making the organization of private events offering the designer furniture. One of the last projects is Slide Café in the center of Milan – café and show-room where the visitors can get to know all the production of the company better.

Slide produces everything: from the tables till the lightings, from the bookstands till the vases. In the collaboration with the famous designers the company produced the products which became famous all over the world. In the collection Slide there are projects by Karim Rashid, Paola Navone, Marcel Vanders and other designers. Among the numerous lightings there are quite uncommon images: penguin, ghost, pig, head of Buddha and bust of Veneer.