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The House Behind House
We love ADUs. They have the power to do the near-impossible: pack more housing into suburban and other low-density areas that were not designed to be dense. And given that they’re typically wedged into...
View ArticleCreating Housing with Sharing in Its DNA
While building new is nifty and all, there’s something very appealing about adaptive reuse. This is why projects like the Providence Arcade, which took an underused indoor shopping mall and converted...
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Compact, Colorful, Russian Flat
We’ve seen INT2 Architecture on this site in the past. The St Petersburg-based firm is Russia’s go-to firm’s for tricking out compact spaces. Though not as small as the 140 sq ft space we looked at...
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Tiny Apartment Builds It Up, Pares it Down
At just 160 sq ft (15 sq m) this is one of the smallest full-function apartments we’ve seen. Despite its tiny proportions, it’s hard to imagine a space getting too much more efficient in its use of...
View ArticlePoop and Make Dinner at the Same Time in Your Tiny House
Tiny houses are cool and all, but their proponents have a tendency to overstate their merits. Yes, they’re super efficient, allow you to live largely off-grid and has the ability to squeeze any...
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Why and Where Micro-Apartments Are Going Up Might Surprise You
New York, San Francisco, Vancouver and, to a lesser extent, Seattle, DC, Boston and LA are logical places for micro-housing. These cities are very or fairly dense, they have high property values in...
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Ain’t Nothing New About Micro Housing
While tiny houses, micro-apartments and even transforming furniture may seem like recent phenomenon, the truth is quite the contrary: it’s big homes, excess space and stuff that are the new thing....
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For This Family Simplicity is the End, Not the Means
Carmella Rayone McCafferty lives (purportedly happily) in a 665 sq ft Wyoming cabin with her husband and three kids. We could stop there and have a remarkable story, but the style and philosophical...
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UK’s The Collective Offers Whole System Design Living
London is one of the most expensive cities in the world, and like many such cities, incomes have not kept pace with the cost of living in general and housing costs in particular. As we saw when we...
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Urban Infill Architecture that Doesn’t Suck
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were boom times for urban architecture in America. Street after street sprouted up with rowhouses, townhouses, brownstones and other medium-density architecture....
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A Studio Apartment that Doesn’t Feel Like a Big Bedroom
Too often, entering a studio apartment feels like entering someone’s bedroom albeit with a few pieces of daytime furniture sitting around. No matter the size of the space, the presence of a bed tends...
View ArticleSnowboarder Living the Off-Grid Dream
A couple decades ago, snowboarder Mike Basich did what few are able to: he went pro, actually making a good living doing what he loved most. Pulling in around $170K year, he did what any protagonist in...
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Small Houses, Medium-Sized People, Big Ambitions
Project H Design is a Bay-Area nonprofit that empowers kids through design and building. For the last seven years, over 600 kids ages 9-17 have participated in their programs, which according to their...
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San Francisco’s Number One Outhouse
Creativity often flourishes inside constraints. In the case of San Francisco Architect Christi Azevedo, the constraints were an old 8’ x 11’ boiler room built in 1916. Working with those...
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Former Grain Silo Converted to Bitchin Tiny House
Add this one to tiny houses in strange structures. Yesterday, it was a tiny guest house in a 100 year old former laundry boiler room. Today, it’s a former grain silo. Whereas yesterday’s space was...
View ArticleParis Hilton Discovers Minimalism, Moves into Tiny House
In what is surely a sign of things to come, Paris Hilton, once the poster girl of conspicuous consumption, has adopted a minimalist lifestyle and has given up a 12k sq ft Malibu mansion for a tiny...
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Transforming Space You Might be Able to Make Yourself
Question: What would happen if you combined the LifeEdited apartment and Gary Chang’s transforming Hong Kong apartment and made the fusion out of plywood and common hardware store materials? Answer:...
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Man Finds Clarity (and a Home) in Airstream Renovation
Few things initiate personal transformation like a good old fashion emotional crisis. And if we are to look at the experience of Jordan Menzel, there are few better vehicles for delivering that...
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Build A Micro Sized/Budgeted Backyard Retreat
This site tends to focus on tiny residential structures–microscopic pads that people are supposed to live in. But the charms of tiny aren’t limited to houses. Case in point is this tree, um,...
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Tiny Apartment Merges Transforming Design with Organic Style
There’s a tendency for tiny transforming apartments to feel like they’ve been designed by Optimus Prime. Often when you add furniture that folds into the wall, it’s hard for an interior to not have a...
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