Two Hilarious Takes on Tiny Living
We at LifeEdited are official members of the Tiny Living Booster Society (TLBS) and can, at times, be pretty biased toward all things small. But we’re also humans–ones who appreciate breathing room and...
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Oh What A Feeling, When You’re Sleeping on the Ceiling
We feature wall beds galore on this site and every now and again we see a trundle bed, but It’s not often that we see beds suspended from the ceiling. Generally speaking, ceiling mounting a bed...
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Revolutionary Architecture Arisen from the Ashes
In 2010 and 2011, Christchurch New Zealand experienced devastating earthquakes, killing hundreds of people and leveling large swaths of the city. Following the government’s withdrawal of housing...
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Off-Grid, Tiny House Builders Take Over TV This Sunday
If you’re hot for tiny houses, but not familiar with Derek “Deek” Diedricksen, you just don’t know what’s up. Deek is one the movement’s/housing typology’s most prominent, interesting and likable...
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Toronto’s Tiny Town
One of the biggest barriers for the proliferation of smart, compact single-family housing is zoning. Many municipalities require certain lot sizes, FARs (floor area ratios) and setbacks (distance from...
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Tapioca-Inspired Micro-Housing
The micro-housing conversation tends to have an either/or note about it. Either we build basic housing that suits the peripatetic single or we build housing that’s suitable for larger households who...
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Micro-Rentals in Madrid Illustrate the Power of Great Design
After the Spanish economy tanked several years ago, many Madrileños were forced to move out of fancy neighborhoods into the dustier parts of town. One of those neighborhoods was Lavapiés. Despite its...
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Many of the less-handy small-dwelling aficionados among us look in awe at people who construct their own tiny houses. We relate better to Christopher Smith in the Tiny movie with his yearlong series of...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like to Live Near a Micro-Apartment Building
Much of the controversy surrounding the addition of micro-apartments in Seattle involved what might happen should the micro-apartment dwellers move into neighborhoods that had theretofore been the...
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The Slow Death of the Walkable City
As a bit of an urban planning enthusiast, I’ve often wondered how cities that predate widespread car-ownership can be so car-dependent nowadays. For example, I am from Chicago, a city that was booming...
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adAPT NYC Winner Coming to Manhattan Soon
It’s been nearly two years since the winner of the adAPT NYC competition–the city’s pilot program for micro-housing–was announced. The winner, dubbed ‘My Micro NY’ and helmed by nArchitects and...
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The Future of Apartment Sharing
Often the best way of downsizing is not getting your own tiny house or apartment, but sharing a larger house or apartment. But finding a nice place to share, nice people to share with and enduring the...
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2 Bedrooms, 4 Kids, 1 Mom, Lots of Ideas
People frequently ask us for more stories about families–particularly how does one fit big families into small homes? The home of Kip Longinotti-Buitoni is a great example of such a beast. Following a...
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Low Impact Living and Dancing Rabbits
What would a truly “edited” and sustainable type of community look like (that isn’t a bunkhouse or prison cell or isn’t the Kowloon walled city)? You’d imagine people would live in small dwellings...
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Apartments Elegantly Mix Old, New, Obtuse Explanation
Unfortunate for LifeEdited readers, there is no Google translator function to convert Architectese into English. Hence, when architects say that they want to “create legible and vibrant neighborhoods...
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Plug and Play Architecture
Toronto’s Urban Capital is proving to be one of the more innovative real estate developers in North America. Their Smart House is a great looking luxury micro apartment, they’ve collaborated with...
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Idyllic Italian Studio Stuffs Storage in the Floor
There’s a tendency for small-space designers to go high with storage. And while this is often the best solution, it’s not the only one. This 377 sq ft studio retreat by Italian firm Studioata is a nice...
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One-Day-to-Construct House Looks Pretty Awesome
Around the world, cities are feeling increasingly pinched for space, resulting in major housing shortages. A project out of Amsterdam has a solution–well, a temporary one at least. Conceived by real...
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The 600 Square Foot Family
Vancouver is one of North America’s densest cities with some of its highest property values. When the city’s residents have kids, many travel the oft-tread path from city center to the burbs for more...
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Keeping Up with the New, Improved Joneses
Many, if not most, of our habits are influenced–if not outright dictated–by a desire to keep up with our peers. We choose the homes we do, we consume the stuff we do, we have the careers we do and make...
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