Design and lifestyle company Apartment Therapy has brought back its annual Small/Cool NYC exhibit to showcase some of the biggest interior design trends. Maxwell Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy, joined Cheddar News to show some of the designs the company has come up with as well as some unique choices for living spaces of any size.

<div class="block">Design and lifestyle company Apartment Therapy has brought back its annual Small/Cool NYC exhibit to showcase some of the biggest interior design trends. Maxwell Ryan, founder of Apartment Therapy, joined Cheddar News to show some of the designs the company has come up with as well as some unique choices for living spaces of any size.</div>

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On The Scene: Apartment Therapy's Small/Cool NYC Exhibit

And the folks that Apartment therapy have brought their annual Small Cool NYC exhibit back to showcase some of the biggest interior design trends. Our very own Michel still on the scene with ideas that can add a little possessed, even the tiniest apartment. Good morning Michelle. Hi, Hannah. Yes, we're here at Industry City at Small Cool NYC. I'm here with Maxwell Ryan who is the founder of Apartment Therapy. So tell us all about what small Cool NYC is. The small Cool started as a contest in 2005. When we just began, I wanted to find the smallest coolest apart in New York and over the years it spread to the world. And then four years ago, we said, why are we just doing this online? Let's make it a live event where people can actually walk into rooms and everything can actually be purchased and, and create inspiration for people to do it themselves. Now tell me a little bit more. We're in the kids section right now. So if you need some Decor tips for the tiniest residents in your apartment, this is the place to be. So tell me about this girls room that we have here. All right. So I did two rooms. One is a small, um, a, a room for a young girl. And what I wanted to do for her is I wanted to give her a fort a retreat, make it really sort of dramatic and cozy. So we use this bunk bed. Um, she might have a sibling or she might not have a sibling or she might have a friend over, but I imagined her sleep playing under here, sleeping under here. Um But always having this up here for her other moods or, or play or friends. Um And the cool thing about this bunk bed is that as she grows up, you can take out the bottom and then you can put a desk and chair in there and this could be a place where she does her homework. Now, I love this pop of color and I hear that's a trend for kids' rooms. Can you tell me a little bit more about what colors you should pick for your kid? Oh. I'd like to ask the Chinese Children what they might want to go for but leave them a little bit. But I will say though is cool colors and I would say this, this sort of uh lilac is a cool color, is better for sleeping. It's gonna calm the room and you may see that in a number of the rooms and here at the experience now from this girls room, we're gonna go to a teenage boys room as I understand it, you had some special help with this, designing this room. So who you consult with? So I have a best friend who has a 15 year old son who loves to skateboard and he loves to surf. And uh over the last few years, he's become very much an interior designer of his own bedroom. And his parents were sending me lots of photos of what he was doing. So I said Charlie come in and let's make this from yours. So this is, these are all his ideas. Uh This is all a lot of it. This is his stuff. Those are his clothes, this is his surfboard, his skateboard and he sort of told me what he wanted and I made it happen. So I especially this, I love this uh skateboard stool, which was his idea too. Yeah. So this is, there's a bunch of stuff here that's his, his which is cool. I, I would not know but this is cool. Um There's also all this cause art and the jellyfish are, are, are cool. Um The magazines, the surfing, the skateboarding is all him. And what's interesting is even though where's a small space solution. So we've used this under bed storage here to love it for a lot of his stuff. He likes to see his shirts hung up in his room. And so he asked me for a hanging rack, which is part of, I think the decor style of his room. He, he, that's him. Why is it so important to involve your kids in the design process with their own bedrooms? Well, I think um if your Children are interested and many are they wanna make it their own, they want your guidance. So I, I give them, leave them to get a few choices as they get older, they'll make more and more choices, but I found that not only will they take better care of their room, they will sleep better and they will love you more for giving them a little bit of power. Now, is there any other tips that you have for decorating kids rooms? Like one last tip? Um I would say what I'm seeing now, not just in kids rooms is go for it. Go over the top. Sounds great. Make it big now, stay tuned because we're going to do an adult bedroom next and show you a little bit more. So stay tuned. I love these spaces. What great ideas Michelle. Thank you so much. I can't wait to see more from apartment therapy. Michelle, what do you have for us this time? So Kristen, we're here in a adult bedroom. We were at children's bedrooms earlier here at small cool NYC. I'm here with Maxwell Ryan. He's the founder of Apartment Therapy, which is putting on this whole event. So tell me more about this room specifically. All right. So this room is inspiration for a very small room. This could be someone's whole studio, not just their bedroom. This is an adult space. This is a Zen retreat. So we're trying to keep this really calm or Anita Dakota, the designer made this very calm and multifunctional. So there's dedicated space for exercise. There's dedicated space over here for extra storage and clothing. Even if, if you need more than your closet, she's put a dog bed in that matches the Tuft and needle mattress. So you can have uh a retreat for you and your dog. And she's done a number of things that make it both really cozy but make the small space work really hard. What I love is not everything is expensive. So this actually is IKEA, this is IKEA which I'm pretty fascinated by. Yeah, I mean, this is IKEA. These are pottery barn. That's the citizen. Everything here is, is, is purchasable. But you'll be surprised every, most of the stuff because of where apartment therapy is accessible and affordable with a few splurges. Like for example, this lamp, this was the splurge for Anita. Um a little more expensive, but that's good. Every room can have moment where you'd go crazy and uh treat yourself. I love the Wayne Scotting too here. Um And you said she did that herself. She did this herself. It's, this is a, it, it has, it's a really nice touch. Gives it a little bit of an elevated hotel feeling, but it's really just Wayne Scotting attached to the wall and then she painted over it and then wallpaper to the ceiling. That's it. Now, we're going to show you guys another room because there's tons of rooms here. But I just want to give you guys a look at what you could do with wallpaper just in case you were interested, but it's pretty expensive. So I like how they framed it and how can this help with saving? Well, wallpaper, if you have a lot of walls can really run you. This is a great way of minimal cost, getting some wallpaper on your walls. It turns it more into a moment of art. It's a pop of color. And as you can see, they use this is Francis Ogura and this is paint to wallpaper matching and then little prints in the middle again, a little bit of Wayne Scotting Diy. Very simple. And these are bookshelves, but they also double as a nightstand. So how can that help with space saving? So you think a small space, you need to always have small furniture. It's not true. These are relatively large bookcases, but they add an element of drama and they elevate the room and they give all the storage that he wanted in this room, not just as a bedside table but also in the cabinets below for other things. Now, if you want to visit small cool. YC what are the dates and how can you get here? So we open on the 13th of this month and we go through to the end of the month or open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And how rooms in total are you here? There's 16 rooms, 16 designers, 16 completely different takes on the trends that are coming for 2024. And what room can you not miss here? My room. Oh, yeah, that one earlier. That was the kids' bedroom over there. I, I like Duval's room on the corner. It's a bar, it's a lounge. It's a late night scene. I think you'll end up there at the end of the time. Well, there's plenty more to hear here to explore. So I'm going to get some tips because I'm always good home. I'm always looking for good home decor. Anything you guys want to find out about Christian? I'm feeling very Zen Michelle. Are those house plants are a beautiful touch. I'm assuming he's a big fan. I love the wallpaper. Oh, yeah. I love house plants.