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Before I got my own place, I already knew it was going to be pretty small (1 bedroom flat) so I was looking up interior design style guides for small spaces. However, what (mostly) westernised interior design guides think of as 'small spaces' are actually about twice the size of my place. And some of those ideas just didn't quite fit, e.g. the so-called tiny house movement seems to assume that you will have a backyard. (That's just cheating, I wail.)
Stumbled a while back on a series of home makeovers in China by Beijing TV, which seems to be more on point. It calls itself 暖暖的新家： to makeover a truly small apartment (or house） (400sqft is a pretty common size) so that it comfortably holds a family of 4 or 5, a family of 6 (or this. The most interesting ones, I find, are the ones where they makeover a tiny bit of a hutong in Beijing, like this one (lots of hutongs were subdivided last century to provide more housing) #夢想改造家. Also an interesting snapshot into some common urban (usually Beijing) family structures: many are single-child families but both sets of grandparents move in to assist with childcare. It's kind of fun.
Stumbled a while back on a series of home makeovers in China by Beijing TV, which seems to be more on point. It calls itself 暖暖的新家： to makeover a truly small apartment (or house） (400sqft is a pretty common size) so that it comfortably holds a family of 4 or 5, a family of 6 (or this. The most interesting ones, I find, are the ones where they makeover a tiny bit of a hutong in Beijing, like this one (lots of hutongs were subdivided last century to provide more housing) #夢想改造家. Also an interesting snapshot into some common urban (usually Beijing) family structures: many are single-child families but both sets of grandparents move in to assist with childcare. It's kind of fun.