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AA: Helping Los Angeles with Its Big House Addiction
Los Angeles has a new ally in combatting sprawl. Anonymous Architecture is churning out spaces that are small, useful, affordable and might help reign in the rate of ceaseless residential land...
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Take A Historical Tour of Space-Saving Design
If you think space saving furniture, multifunctional design and tiny transforming spaces are a new idea, think again. As long as humans have tread the planet, they’ve been looking for ways to make...
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SVA Students Take on Micro-Apartment Design
A couple months ago, a class of intrepid School of Visual Arts (SVA) undergrad students taught by the talented architect Darrick Borowski took on the assignment of conceiving micro-apartments in the...
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Former Bordeaux Garage Makes Chic Micro Maison
Photographer Jérémie Buchholtz wanted to buy a home in Bordeaux, but there was a dearth of desirable properties in his modest price range. When he found an unused, corrugated-steel-sided 485 sq ft...
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The Neighborhood within the Neighborhood
Pocket neighborhoods prove that an edited home can take on many shapes and sizes and be located most anywhere. The term, coined by architect Ross Chapin, refers to clusters of houses that share common,...
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Competition Seeks Small, Cool Apartments
For the past nine years, fellow small space aficionado site Apartment Therapy has been holding a competition called “Small Cool.” As the name implies, they are on a hunt to find the world’s smallest...
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Prefab, Off Grid and Nowhere to Go
A reader tipped us off to this tiny home called SMO (Sklopivi Mobilni Objekt, or folding mobile house). Designed by Croatian architect Ivica Gjurić, the home is primarily intended as a vacation...
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X Marks the House
Okay, maybe “t” is the more accurate letter, but any way you look at it, these tiny housing modules show an interesting, prefabricated, highly-scaleable housing solution. We use the term “solution” as...
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Moving Wall Makes Rooms and Sense
One of the most asked about features of the LifeEdited Apartment is its moving wall. More than any other feature in the apartment, the moving wall provides a new way of thinking about how small spaces...
View ArticleThe Half-Mile High City
If you’re a high-density housing fanatic, the best direction to build is up. The logic follows that if you build up, you fit more people into less land area, resulting is less commuting, greater...
View ArticleA Portrait of the Truly Modern Village
The latest video from Fair Companies gives a tour of Stan Leonard’s Sebastopol, CA home. The home is part of Florence Lofts, a 12-unit development specifically designed for people who live and work...
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Why Are American Homes So Big?
Yesterday, we mentioned that in 2012 the average new single-family home in the US was 2505 sq ft (median house size was 2306 and has stayed close to average. Full stats here). For a small-space blog,...
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It’s Official: Japanese Small Apartments Are World’s Coolest
As one of the world’s most densely populated countries, Japan has long been a leader in small space home design. Maybe it’s just us (who have never been there outside of flight layovers), but when we...
View ArticleLifeEdited is a Specialty Consultant
LifeEdited acts as a speciality consultant to architects. For instance, LifeEdited is a speciality consultant to a registered Nevada architect, for that architect’s potential project in Las Vegas. For...
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Would You Live in an Idea?
We ran across this stunning little Parisian apartment in Arch Daily. The level of detail and design that architecture firm Betillon Dorval-Bory brings to the 215 sq ft (20 sqm) space is remarkable. Yet...
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How Inconvenience Might Save Your Life
Back in the day, working out your body wasn’t an elective activity. There were no elevators or escalators, no cars with automatically lifting tailgates, no riding lawnmowers or robotic vacuums. Ours’...
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Shove Thy Neighbor
People who’ve been with this website for a while might recall the Spite House. The long-since-demolished, super-skinny, New York City house was constructed in 1882 by real estate developer Patrick...
View ArticleIs LA the Next City to Go Micro?
In the US, high density cities like New York, San Francisco and Boston are the likely candidates for micro-apartment booms. Their steep property values, limited land and solid public transportation...
View ArticleYou’re Getting Older, Where Will You Live?
So often, the spotlight on micro-apartment residents shines brightest on the young. Recent college grads, twenty-something Bay Area startup employees and other unencumbered types are the people we...
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Hope, and Homes, Float with Houseboats
On this site we’ve heard tales of folks trading in their landlubber homes for sail and motorboat-based living. But most boats weren’t made to be inhabited fulltime–even we have to admit that living out...
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