Raised in Tallinn, Estonia, Nataliya Gerasimova graduated from design school in 2016 and founded Mova Interiors in 2017. She’s lived in this home, a 725-square-foot rental apartment located in Bellevue, Washington, for three years, and shares the one-bedroom space with her husband and their dog.

Nataliya’s goal was never to make their small space feel bigger; rather, she says she wanted to “make it feel complete, thought-through, layered, and intentional. It’s been an ongoing process of exploring how a space feels to live in, not just how it looks, with every decision shaped around how we actually use it day to day. We wanted it to feel calm and easy to come home to, with multiple places to sit depending on what we’re doing.”

Because the space is small, Nataliya has prized flexibility. For instance, the sofa chaise has a moveable backrest that they rotate throughout the day, “sometimes facing the window, sometimes inward, depending on whether I’m working, taking calls, or just relaxing.…