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The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Innovation
Started in 2008, Summit Series has established itself as one of the world’s premier events focusing on entrepreneurship, addressing global issues and support artistic achievement. Past speakers include...
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MUJI’s Tiny Houses Show Off Huge Style
Japanese retailer MUJI’s bread and butter is simple, neutral colored, no-frills household products, furniture and the occasional piece of clothing. As part of the “Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH” event,...
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NYC’s First Micro-Apartment Building is (Almost) Ready to Rock
A few years ago, New York’s adAPT NYC competition drummed up a ton of public interest in micro-living. Spearheaded by the Bloomberg administration and HPD, the design and development competition sought...
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Make it Small, Make it Right
The Make it Right foundation was founded in 2007 by Brad Pitt as an architectural response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Rather than merely replicating the homes destroyed by the...
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Small, Social, Affordable Living Coming Soon to Upstate New York
I’ve written here about several all inclusive housing developments that are aimed at so called Millennials. Ollie in New York. WeLive in DC. The Collective in London. These places combine small...
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Low Impact, High Times in the Woods
Individual tiny cabins out in the woods are nifty and all, but the architectural form’s real potential lies in community formation. Magic happens when you throw a bunch of tiny structures and people in...
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Tour LifeEdited Designer Catalin Sandu’s New Home
In 2011, LifeEdited founder Graham Hill put out a challenge to design his 420 sq ft New York studio. He established an intimidating design brief: he wanted it to accommodate sit-down dinners for 12,...
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Hide Out in the Hills with this High Design Getaway
If DIY, salvaged material made, moss-covered Hobbit holes aren’t your thing, the VIPP Shelter might just be. VIPP is a Danish product design company best known for a pedal operated trash can (trust me,...
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See Us on Yahoo? Start Here
You might have seen us on Yahoo News with Katie Couric. If so, welcome! And now that you’re here, you might be wondering, what the heck is LifeEdited? Allow us to explain. First, we are a business. We...
View ArticleMicro Goes Even More Mainstream
When LifeEdited began several years ago, the micro housing conversation was happening but primarily in small pockets–the odd tiny house in northern California, Gary Chang’s transforming Hong Kong...
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This Ad Campaign Hits Nail on Head About NYC’s Cramped Apartments
There’s been a lot of recent hype about New York City’s Carmel Place (aka “My Micro”). Rightfully so. It is the city’s first purpose built micro-apartment building after all. But if you have ever lived...
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A Kinder, Greener New York City
Living in New York City can be many things: exciting, dynamic, culturally rich, god awfully expensive. But one thing it is not for most people is natural: unless you live directly on a park, your...
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The Internet of Homes
It’s not news to say that tech is affecting nearly every facet of our existences: how we consume and deliver information, how we communicate, how we get around, how we use and share goods and on and...
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The Only Thing You Need to Get Rid of When Moving into a Small Space
As micro housing has gained popularity in the last several years, a number of similarly titled articles have been published. The general wording is, “Could You Live in Only ___ [200, 300, 400] Square...
View ArticleIf You Let Them Build It, They Are Much More Likely to Come
The world is abuzz about tiny houses. They are the architectural antidote to all that ails the modern American home: they are small, affordable energy misers whose tiny confines prohibit the...
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LifeEdited’s Top Posts of 2015
As the year draws nigh and vacations loom, we thought we’d look at 2015’s most trafficked posts published this year (“Build Your Own Murphy Bed for $275,” published shortly after this blog started in...
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It’s the Little Things That Make A Difference
Unless you’re living in some self-sustaining, off-grid detached house, the fact is that multifamily, multi-storey housing in dense, urban settings–ones that are walkable and have access to public...
View ArticleMoving Up Maslow’s Pyramid with Kirsten Dirksen
Since 2006, Kirsten Dirksen and her husband have been producing *faircompanies, a web video series that has evolved to become the world’s most comprehensive archive of compact homes and the people who...
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Living Small, Riding Free
We have posted about numerous folks who have traded stationary homes for RVs. People make this choice for a variety of reasons. They might want to see the world, live a more minimal existence, reduce...
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WeLive Goes Live, Sorta
A while back we reported about WeLive, the residential arm of the coworking giant WeWork. That post gave some of the spec’s for their Crystal City project, which converted a 12 story office building...
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