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Japanese designer Yuko Shibata created separate living and working areas in this Tokyo apartment by installing two mobile walls. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.

Called Switch, the project features one partition that slides out over the dining table to create a meeting room on one side and library on the other.

The second bookcase pivots round at the end of the day to reveal a bedroom.

Folding back these perforated screens reconfigures an apartment that’s combined with a dance and choreography studio near Paris.

Light glows through the circular holes to give a star-studded appearance to the walls, which were designed by French studio Cut Architectures.

The hinged panels are hollow and a transparent PVC pipe lines each perforation. Hidden wheels allow the partitions to be easily manoeuvred. A second set of screens extends around a set of french windows in the bedroom.

Japanese architects 403architecture have turned the floor of this refurbished apartment in Hamamatsu into a huge chest of drawers.

It was only during the renovation that the architects discovered the large void beneath the suspended floor and decided to use it for storage.

Clear, corrugated plastic fronts the new sliding drawers, while scaffolding supports shelves behind and the floor slabs above.

Sheets of white fabric hang like shower curtains from a railing affixed to the exposed concrete ceiling and circle the lower level of the open-plan living room.

Getting a good night’s sleep can be hard: who amongst us hasn’t spent hours awake each night tossing and turning trying to find that elusive sleep? We’ve all tried everything we can think of, counting sheep, a cup of warm milk before bed, a bath – even slowly relaxing your body from head to toe. But how often do any of these work? For most people the answer is not very often, but have you thought it could be your room that is keeping you awake? How we decorate our room and what is in it as well as outside can have an impact upon how well we sleep, if it allows us to get to sleep at all.