If your home is a one-room flat, consider these decorating tips

Shelves with integrated desk are a space-saving home office solution. Photo: Hulsta/VDM/dpa-mag

Tenants of small flats might not have minded the way the stove was right next to the bed or the way the desk was scooted up next to the sofa when they were barely in the house, often travelling for work, or routinely out and about.

But now that so many of us are spending so much time in our flats, those with the more diminutive kind are finding them decidedly cramped.