it's a cool apartment, congratulations on your new home!

they had it styled pretty well I must say

as My3dogs suggested-tell us a bit more about what you have to have there, in terms of furniture, drapes if you have to have them etc..dimensions..and your inspiration pics if you have some

Congratulations of the beautiful apartment. My advice is fairly pedestrian, but comes from many years of living in a very small house.

Keep to a relatively monochromatic color scheme. I would favor light colors.

Paint your ceiling a glossy version of the color on your walls.

Make strategic use of mirrors to bounce light and create visual space- no Versailles, just one or two.

Buy furniture that is properly scaled for the room. I would gravitate toward modern pieces for this house if possible.

Always seek furniture that does double duty and can be compacted. Tables with a drop leaf, benches for storage and seating.

Incorporate plants into your decor.

Embrace minimalism. The best way to make space in the apartment is to remove clutter and make tidying up simple.

Good luck! I am sure your house is going to be fantastic! It has gorgeous windows and a nice layout.

I actually don't have the dimensions for the living room at hand where i'm now. Thank you all for your replies. I have no furniture as of now so we're starting from scratch.

I do not plan to use anything to cover up the windows as it's in the 6th floor and at an angle noone should be able to see through. It catches a lot of the light during day time, but half the year is pitch dark here so there's not much light to come. Also i don't really have any ideas of how i want it to look. I mean i can only fit one sofa, a table for the sofa and i was thinking i'd throw a TV up on the wall. Do paitings or mirrors help make the room appear bigger. You said two mirrors - where would you place them? Also would a bigger sofa make the apartment too small you think?

not necessarily a bigger sofa will make a space seem too small as long as it's not too bulky visually, and actually fits and leaves sone breathing space

I wonder whether you can find slim credenza to go under/hold that TV..immediate increase of storage, and better viewing angle

both mirrors and art can help space to appear bigger as your eyes have where to travel

that's why they always try to put at least something in a space when they sell..even an art or a flowerpot..your eye travels, your brain registers "there's distance here"

a mirror will increase the light the most when it's on the wall perpendicular to the windows..:) (the opposite works too..but the perpendicular works best)

as for the style..do you like the furniture that appears on the listing photo? if you do-that's a direction already

let me show a link..they kinda try to define styles, very roughly, and give preliminary ideas where to look

https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/decorating-style-defined#steps-to-naming-style

and here's one of the quizzes..they're dime by the dozen but this is longer thus more fun..and my result is pretty much close

http://www.lonny.com/quiz/QtaUILfam7S/MyStyleFinder+Quiz

(I'm Boho Bravura lol..for whatever it means)

I'd gravitate toward modern too...luckily modern is so versatile you can incorporate it almost allover the map

pluses:

-a) you're in Norway..should be a blessing for everybody who loves modern

-b) modern is very in ..because , partially, people who owned it when it was big got old and their furniture hit the market-so huge sourse of good quality second-hand

boho also has its pluses...it's much easier to pull it off on cheap..:) you collect..you collect high and low..and you have this careless attitude, you care less about formality or provenance or..

you can be a mix between several styles

actually the majority of people are

we're complex beings, that's why

ok..I hope even if not finding the links helpful, you'll find them fun-already a great mood to be in when thinking of your new place

April, you are a fountain of great information and suggestions . . . Wow!

I would add to April's wonderful suggestions, go to places like allposters.com and look through their photography selections. Are you are familiar with the term "Trompe l'oeil" ? That is the direction I would follow. What I would look for is art that would "fool the eye" , creating the illusion of looking out a window, thus expanding your visual field. In other words, it would expand your rooms visually, making them seem larger. Trompe l'oeil wall murals do the same thing only on a much larger scale.

The last place I used this technique was in the smallish staff lounge that I was redoing at a school. This room that had no windows. I searched for and found large posters that resembled the actual landscape in the area outside the school, I had several of them nicely framed and hung them on the room's walls. The staff loved the effect. It did make their room feel much larger, and they very much enjoyed their new "views".

Here are just a few examples I found on allposters.com in their photography section. They don't have to look like your area of Norway, though, just views that are enjoyable for you to look at:

I wish you the best with your new apartment. I can see that it has much potential. Please stop back here to show us what you've done, and to ask for more ideas, etc.

Pretty space. I have one word: IKEA. Not necessarily for their furnishings, but they are great at small spaces, multi-functional furniture.

Also, I highly recommend www.apartmenttherapy.com . They have lots of home tours of, well, apartments with lots of suggestions and pics.

I love the suggestions, you are fantastic!
I'm thinking i might remove the kitchen bench pointing towards the living room to make it feel more spacious. As for the interior style, i agree modern is the way to go. So if i decorate the wall above the sofa with a big mirror and perhaps one of these photos it will help create the illusion that the space is bigger?
What about rugs, will they have an effect on the space?

Also do you have any suggestions as far as sofa and sofatables go? I'd like for more sitting space, but i don't want it to appear as there's a huge sofa taking up half the living room either.