A Case for Bringing Innovation to the Housing Market
In Manhattan, the average cost of a studio apartment is $2,418 (non doorman). In San Francisco, it’s $2650. Crazy as it sounds, you might not have the privilege of paying those sums as both cities have...
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Cool San Francisco Transforming Loft
A reader of ours turned us onto this cool 500 sq ft San Francisco loft recently featured on Design Milk. The space was designed by Charles Irby and Peter Suen and centers around a prefabricated module...
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A Tiny House that Doesn’t Look Like it Belongs in 1890s Kansas
Call us a bit jaded, but after a while many tiny houses start to look alike: tiny A-frame structures with eaves and a porch, lots of rustic wood, a loft bed, composting toilet. This is all fine, good...
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Single Family Housing that Makes Sense
There was a time when American single family homes weren’t so absurdly large. In 1950, the average household had 3.83 people and the average new single family home was 983 sq ft, making for a pretty...
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The Best Worst Case Scenario Housing
Necessity, so it is said, is the the mother of invention. And few situations bring necessity to the fore like a disaster. And few disaster housing is as inventive as the NYC Emergency Housing Prototype...
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If You Like the Suburbs, You’ll Love Sunnyside Gardens
Lest we forget, car-dependent, suburban sprawl is a very recent phenomenon. For most of human history, living in compact homes in walkable areas was a choice borne of necessity, not lifestyle...
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If You’re Going to Covet, Covet This
The term “keeping up with the Joneses” is rarely framed in a positive manner. It refers to a nasty form of one upmanship, where someone is always trying to have the bigger car, bigger house, newer...
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Apartment Offers Best of One Bedroom and Studio Living
One of the drawbacks of having a sealed-off bedroom is that it becomes a non-operational part of the home when not in use, which, for a bedroom, is most of the time. This is fine when square feet...
View ArticleVideo: The Year of Magical Furniture
When we cover interesting compact spaces on this site, we usually list their usable area, expressed in square feet or meters. We are pretty hardwired to draw a correlation between a space’s area and...
View ArticleLegalize Tiny
In December we posted about Walsenburg, Colorado, a tiny town that created a building ordinance to allow for the construction of a tiny house subdivision. As we’ve long noted, zoning is the biggest...
View ArticleRethinking the American Dream Home
Whether manufactured or the reflection of a genuine desire, the American dream has long been a process of settling down with your family in your own single family house (ideally with white picket...
View ArticleAre RVs a Good Solution to Affordable Urban Housing?
We’re ever on the lookout for creative ways of making cities denser and more affordable. One way of doing that is filling up unused land gaps with housing. And one super simple form of housing that can...
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Smart, Small Studios Hit Canadian Campus
More than most North American cities, Vancouver has experienced a surge in housing costs. Apartments are up nearly 20% from a year ago, with the average price around C$450K (a modest uptick compared to...
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Petite Apartment Packs Pivot Power
Robert Garneau is no stranger to ingenious small space design. The NYC-based architect’s Transformer Apartment, with its host of custom storage solutions and transforming elements, is one of the most...
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The $7000 Tiny House
In a resounding sign that tiny living has hit the mainstream, 84 Lumber, one America’s largest building material suppliers, is rolling out (pun intended) a line of sub 200 sq ft trailer mounted tiny...
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This Thing Turns Spaces Into Homes
What differentiates a space from a home? We’re not referring to the smell of baked bread or the pencil marks on the door sill marking your child’s growth. We’re talking about the most basic...
View ArticleIntroducing LifeEdited: Maui
It’s been almost four years since we revealed the first LifeEdited Apartment (LE1) in New York City. It was both design laboratory and CEO Graham Hill’s personal apartment. But as some might know,...
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Micro Prefab KASITA Goes Live
There is no shortage of innovative designs that never see the light of day. Furniture, interiors, buildings and products that are so cool in renderings and sound so cool in concept but, for one reason...
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Norway’s Small Space Royalty
We recently ran across Norwegian company “Ett rom til” (One More Room) on one of our favorite design sites, Living in a Shoebox. They showed off one of the firm’s projects that placed a spare bedroom...
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Bringing Life to Moribund Shopping Malls
No structure better represents consumer culture like the shopping mall. For those who lived to shop, the mall was their home. But as online shopping became a mainstay, as teenagers started hanging out...
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