Sweden’s Nature Pill for City Dwellers
Last summer we looked at kolonistuga, the garden and vacation colonies that dot Sweden and are occupied with tiny cottages. Like most great ideas in compact living, you know that Kirsten Dirksen‘s...
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Well That’s One Way of Adding Density
The skyscraper is without a doubt the most effective way of adding density to any patch of land. And eVolo’s Magazine’s Skyscraper Competition is an exploration of innovative designs around this...
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SF Startup Filling in Urban Cracks with Office Space
The small space conversation is generally in reference to housing size. Yes housing is the single largest category of a person’s spatial use, but it’s not the only one. In particular, our work...
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Absurd Rents Lead Man to Think Outside Box, Live in One
We always feel a little bittersweet when we run across people living affordably and microscopically in extremely expensive cities. On the one hand, it’s a testament to human ingenuity and we love...
View ArticleIf Elected, Sanders Promises Tiny House Colony, Co-Housing for White House
In a bold campaign promise, Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders declared that he will transform the White House from a single family house into an extensive, high density community capable of housing...
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A Compact and Communal Approach to Housing the Homeless
As we’ve seen here before, some of the most interesting and innovative projects involving small housing revolves around addressing the needs of the homeless. We can add Austin Texas’ based Mobile...
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Transforming Space Must Be Seen to be Believed
With an average purchasing price around $23K per square meter, it’s no wonder that some of the world’s most amazing transforming spaces come from Hong Kong. And this apartment by HK’s LAAB Architecture...
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SHTF Ready Housing Collective Pretty Sweet
Techno-urban utopianists predict a future where people will live in plant-covered high rises that spring up like natural organisms. All transportation will be on demand. Everything will be powered by...
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Game of Thrones Meets Tiny House Nation
Have you ever been interested in living in a tiny house, but found most of them too cute? Perhaps you wanted something more imposing, more medieval–but still tiny. Look no further, because this 288 sq...
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We Wish All Suburban Developments Looked Like This
We’ve long extolled the virtues of high density, urban living. By keeping things close, you can walk or bike most places, which is better for both physical and planetary health. Density leads to more...
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Test Drive Tiny Living at this Tiny House Hotel
For all the hype around tiny houses, far more people talk and read about them than live in them. We suspect if people were given the opportunity to live in one for a while, they might take the tiny...
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The New Starter Home
Somewhere between now and 1950 (or thereabouts) something went wrong with American housing. Back then, car-fueled sprawl hadn’t yet driven people so far from city centers. At 983 sq ft, the average...
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Simple is as Simple Lives
Sure, high tech micro apartments are pretty nifty, but never underestimate the power of good design even with the most meager means. Case in point is Vila Matilde by São Paulo’s Terra e Tuma...
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Lighten Up and Get Out of Town with this $150 DIY Bike Camper
We’ve explored bicycle towed trailers in the past. In particular, the Wide Path Camper seemed like a nice execution of the idea. But as a number of readers noted, it had a couple big liabilities....
View ArticleThe Unbearable Lightness of Tiny Living
Each week we are profiling real people who are editing their lives for more freedom and happiness. This week we hear from Jan, who lives in 98 sq ft tiny house. He shares his experience about the...
View ArticleThe Problem(s) with Tiny Houses
At LifeEdited, we love tiny houses! They are like architectural and existential reduction sauce. Every space and object that isn’t utterly essential, that isn’t something you absolutely need, is boiled...
View ArticleThe High Cost of the Guest Room
Pulling data from the US Census, Finder.com found there are 9.4% more bedrooms in the U.S. than people: 357M bedrooms but only 323.4M people–a 33.6 million bedroom surplus. This figure, they note, is...
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A Suburb that Puts People First
One of the biggest demerits of suburban living is how they can have an isolating effect on people who live in them. When most suburbanites leave home, they enter a car that’s usually in an enclosed...
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A Village in a Tower
While Europeans are no strangers to communal, urban living, evidenced by things like Baugruppen, the phenomenon is still pretty rare in North America. Cohousing, the most established form or communal...
View ArticleThis Science Fiction Dystopian Housing is So Cool
This author is not a science fiction enthusiast, so forgive my ignorance of Ernie Cline and his 2011 book “Ready Player One,” which apparently is a big deal in that world. The cover of the book shows a...
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