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The Most Minimalist Furniture There Is
If you’re looking to de-clutter, streamline and create a home that feels open and minimal, Katy Bowman has a decorating tip: ditch the furniture. Katy, her husband and two children, ages 18 months and...
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General Electric Gets Specific About Small Space Appliances
Few things are more problematic when decking out a small space than kitchen appliances. The right-sized ones tend to be designed for college dorm rooms–crummy finishes and features, manual defrost...
View Article7 Ways to Improve Your Small Space with Feng Shui
An NPR story last week told the tale of Lisa Dutton. Her home had been languishing on the market for 30 months with only low-ball offers coming in. The Chino Hills, CA resident was frustrated. She...
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Movie Review: “TINY: A Story About Living Small”
It was inevitable: those lovable, trailer-mounted tiny houses and all they represent–sustainability, non-consumerism, the DIY sensibility, off-gridded-ness, giving-the-finger-to-the-man-ness–have been...
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Brooklyn Man Turns Studio Into Two Bedroom Apartment
In New York and other expensive cities, many people are forced to get creative with apartment subdivisions, as one-for-one bedroom-to-occupant setups are too expensive. This was the situation facing...
View Article9 Ways to Edit Your Life in the Suburbs
It has been rightly pointed out that we at LifeEdited have a heavy urban bias. We sing the praises of compact apartments nestled in vibrant streets where we all frolick, ahem, walk or bike to world...
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The Second Smartest Space in San Francisco
A while ago we checked out San Francisco’s SMARTSPACE Harriet (i.e. the first smartest space in San Francisco), a four story, 23-unit building made up of prefab micro-apartments. SMARTSPACE Harriet was...
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Check Out These Scrappy Little Homes for the Homeless
“One man gathers what another man spills.” Grateful Dead Sculptor Gregory Kloehn wanted to do more than make art that sat in rich folks’ homes. He wanted to make useful stuff–made from unused stuff. He...
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Love Manhattan? Then You’ll Love Yujiapu
Ah the dream of creating a perfect city–include the best, leave the rest and all you have is perfect living conditions. History is dotted with success stories: Brasilia, Arcosanti, Celebration,...
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Good Things Come in Small Boxes
With crappy design, 200 sq ft can feel like a confining trap with little functional value. With great design, like this little room by Moscow’s INT2 Architecture, 200 sq ft can feel open and perform...
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Photographer Captures Poetry and Perils of Sprawl
Few things provide context for a place like an aerial view. When we only see what’s in our immediate field of vision on the ground, it’s tough to understand how we fit into the world around us. Gaining...
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Genius Reno or Architectural Lipstick on a Pig?
Cities like New York, Hong Kong and London tend to get all the attention when it comes to astronomical property values. But there are smaller, quieter cities that might lack the flash, but are still...
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Tiny House Nation TV Show Review
The trailer wheels on the bottom of tiny houses must be getting some decent traction in the American consciousness. First, they got their own movie, and now they have their own TV show. Last night was...
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Los Maestros del Diseño Pequeño Espacio
While perusing the inter-webs the other day we came across several cool little apartments. After checking out their specs, we noticed that they had a common trait: they were all designed by the Spain’s...
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The World Cup of Housing
Unless you were living under a rock, in a cave, located in the Marianas trench, chances are you heard about the World Cup games that recently concluded in Brazil. What you might not know is that there...
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Luxury Micro-Apartments Come to DC, Transportation Included
A new micro-apartment building will be going up on the 1400 block of Church St NW in Washington DC. It will have 37 units ranging from 265 to 490 sq ft, according to Brook Rose who, along with Gregg...
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Milanese Flat Shows There’s More than One Way to Chop a Box
Few shapes are easier to work with than the box. Halve it, quarter it, cut it into thirds. But because of these endless possibilities, it can be difficult to choose the best one. In thinking about how...
View ArticleLots and Lots of Problems
Big houses are the minimalist/tiny-living advocate’s whipping boy for many of the world’s ills. Few things are as easy (or big) of a target as a big houses; they take up too much land leading to...
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Nomads, Rebels and Off-Gridders: A Review of Microtopia Documentary
Beyond mere housing dimensions, one of the underlying things that interests us here at LifeEdited is the nature of home. What does home mean? How has it changed over the years? What will it look like...
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This Tiny, Passive House Ain’t No Wimp
Don’t be fooled by its peace-loving name, few things will defend you from the elements like a Passive House. If you’re not familiar with the term, Passive House (aka Passivhaus) is a German-born set of...
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