Entertaining in a Small Space

Whether you’ll be able to entertain any but the very closest of friends in your tiny space will depend a lot on the space.  If you can set up a seating area to share, try to orient chairs so that they are at right angles to each other (that is, lines across of the fronts of those chairs are perpendicular to each other) and so that there is something in all the seated people’s lines-of-sight (such as a potted plant or an aquarium with fish in it or a small sculpture, etc.) that people can gracefully divert their eyes to when they need an eye contact break and to de-stress.  Depending on the size of your tiny space, people in it may be so close to each other that they are violating their culture’s personal sizes, which is, of course, stressful.

For you any your guests, it is important that your tiny space actually works, that you can do what you need to do in it.  If your tiny kitchen has a stove, you need to be able to open the door of that stove wide enough to put things to be cooked inside for instance.  A place where you work must have Internet access of the type and speed you need, your tech zone can’t get submerged under that of the other group next door, for instance. How to move panels to convert your home from home-office mode to sleep mode has to make sense to you and you need to be able to move them.

Living and working small can be living and working well when thoughtful design prevails!