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Renzo Piano Makes Micro Modern
More often than not, tiny houses like the ones made famous by Tumbleweed Tiny House Company have a decidedly rustic vibe. If you want to live in one of these basic homes and you’re not into the...
View ArticleOpen Source Housing
The idea of sharing is palatable enough for things like power tools and even cars, but our homes? Like underwear and teeth retainers, homes are the kind of things that are best when they have clear...
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World’s Least Edited Building Opens in China
What has 18,000,000 square feet of floor area, an artificial beach and a Gap clothing store? If you answered, the New Century Global Center in Chengdu, China–now the biggest building in the world as...
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Très Chic Parisian Micro Digs
While Japan might be the nation most associated with micro living, the French hold their own in terms packing big design in small spaces. Case in point are BioApparts I and II, a pair of Parisian...
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Land Down Under is Over in Terms of Housing Size
These infographics from Shrink That Footprint show the average new house sizes across the world in 2009. Despite the American penchant to do everything a little bit bigger, it’s the Australians who...
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Real World Micro Living
We are design wonks here at LifeEdited. We swoon at Parisian micro flats with experimental lighting schemes, lust over obtuse Japanese rental properties and dig all–well, “many”–varieties of...
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Take a Tiny House Vacation
You’re not a true minimalist if you don’t have a tiny house fantasy. You have it all mapped out: You’ll quit your job. Next, you’ll get rid of your current home and all your possessions except a spoon,...
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Shipping Containers Deliver Innovative, Elegant Homes
There have been many variations on the theme of converting shipping containers into homes, but few are as elegant or practical as this one by Vancouver’s Atira Women’s Resource Society. The just...
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Just Keep Truckin Home
We’ve covered a number of mobile homes here on LifeEdited, and we must confess a little judgment about this mode of living transport. While their interiors are always paragons of efficiency and clever...
View ArticleMicro-apartments in Brazil, LifeEdited
We are very excited to announce a micro-apartment project going up in São Paulo, Brazil. Many details are still being worked out, but we can tell you a few things: LifeEdited, Inc would serve as a...
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Tiny Solution to the Big Problem of Homelessness
Add Madison, Wisconsin to New York City and San Francisco to cities with major housing shortages. The 240K person midwestern city boasts a housing vacancy rate of 1.8%–four times lower than the...
View ArticleTake a Tour of Steve Sauer’s 182 Sq ft Triplex
A while back, we looked at Steve Sauer’s 182 sq ft, self-built “pico-dwelling” in Seattle. The tiny triplex, built in a converted storage area, has the level of intricacy you’d expect from a Boeing...
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Mind, and Live in, The Gap
Dutch roof window manufacturer Fakro doesn’t like wasted space. To prove this, they have conceived the “Live Between Buildings” concept, designed to utilize “blind walls” between buildings–i.e. the...
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Who Gives a Poop What Was Here Before?
This week we have seen some creative adaptations of unused space. First was Fakro’s “Live Between Buildings,” which proposes to use the unlit spaces between buildings to make a separate building. Today...
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Man Thinks Outside Box, but Lives Inside One
We really dig the “living cube” by Swiss designer Till Könneker. It handles two fairly common problems in one tidy package. One, it creates storage in an open loft space without adding closets. Two, it...
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Compact, Transforming Apartment on a Budget
When many of us see Graham Hill’s LifeEdited apartment, we see expensive custom cabinetry and moving walls and perhaps think, “I can’t afford that?” We at LifeEdited think we have some solid arguments...
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Real (Cool) Madrid Micro Loft
This tiny loft in downtown Madrid by Beriot Bernardini Architects is filled with clever ideas. BBA exploits the 301 sq ft former office space’s 12′ high ceilings, inserting a multi-functional, two...
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Compact Convenience or Craziness in Harlem?
A new project in Harlem is offering apartments as small as 100 sq ft that rent for $1275/month. The building at 14 Convent Avenue is a former SRO, a designation that allows a dwelling unit’s primary...
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Swedish University Sticks Students in Wood Box
Next year at Lund University in Småland, Sweden, 22 students will get their own 10 sq meter micro-houses. The project, whose prototype is currently on display at Virserum Art Museum, was designed by...
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Mad Man Builds Sweet Little Space
This month is Dwell Magazine’s small space issue, and in it they feature the home of actor Vincent Kartheiser, aka Pete Campbell from Mad Men. In a departure from the Hollywood big-ass-house norm,...
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