Is it possible to independently choose the design of the apartment

“We have a very uncomfortable apartment: low ceilings, a kitchen in which there are more than three. Installed in the bathroom washing machine, and she “ate” half of the remaining free space, ”the woman complains to her friend. When the country was solved in the country to provide housing with the maximum number of citizens, they did not think about how to make apartments convenient, the task was different. But if desired and a competent approach, even from a small apartment, you can make one in which it will be convenient to live.