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Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio. How to Maximize Every Inch of a Small Closet. Your closets are the most underutilized, yet precious space in your entire home!

How to Maximize Every Inch of a Small Closet

From the largest to the smallest home, storage is the number one area that is lacking in home design today. In every closet take an inventory of what is there, what can be discarded, or stored in another location in your home. You will not be able to utilize your closet to its full potential with excess ‘stuff’. From the ceiling to the floor, let’s maximize every inch of your small closet.

Small 45 Square-Meter Apartment Design Optimized by Maurício Karam. 30 Design Ideas to Make Your Small Bedroom Look Bigger by Micle Mihai-Cristian. Interior design By Freshome.com - Interior Design & Architecture Magazine on Oct 30, 2012 If you are looking for inspiration on how to decorate a small bedroom, prepare to be overwhelmed with fantastic ideas.

30 Design Ideas to Make Your Small Bedroom Look Bigger by Micle Mihai-Cristian

After publishing these contemporary bedroom design ideas guaranteed to “rock your world”, these charming Swedish modern bedrooms and these holiday-inspiring ocean-view bedrooms, it is time to have a look at practical solutions for small homes. For today we gathered 30 photos of small bedroom interiors, each of them displaying a clever layout. So take your time and go through each and every photo from the list below, analyzing details and slowly configuring your dream bedroom. - LifeEdited. Shrinking your crib: when home is just 65 square feet. In a land where the average home size has grown steadily for nearly 15 years and is now over twice that of Europe, there's a growing group of Americans embracing a small is beautiful philosophy and living in homes "smaller than some people's closets.

Shrinking your crib: when home is just 65 square feet

" Call them tiny houses, wee homes, mini dwellings, "sensibly sized" or microhomes, there's a new movement afoot in the United States, that the Small House Society explains includes "movie stars who have downsized into 3000 square feet, families of five happy in an arts and crafts bungalow, multifamily housing in a variety of forms, and more extreme examples, such as people on houseboats and in trailers with just a few hundred square feet around them.

" Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces. Transformer Apartment [VIDEO] Small Spaces - Small Bathroom Pictures, Small Kitchen Design & Small Space Decorating. Award-Winning Suite of Suitcase Rooms from Toshihiko Suzuki Architect. Another ingenious design for saving space comes from Toshihiko Suzuki Architect – 3 complete foldaway rooms: KENCHIKUKAGU.

Award-Winning Suite of Suitcase Rooms from Toshihiko Suzuki Architect

The firm has won a well-deserved design award for the concept. The shortest becomes a kitchen, the middle height one becomes a stowaway office, and the tallest is a guest bedroom. These instant rooms would be useful to anyone wanting to save space (and money!) By occupying the same space several times over. This one is the bedroom. It is also a great option for young renters on the go, an instant take-it-with-you bedroom for themselves, or to accommodate guests. Every guest needs a place to catch up with the world on their laptop. The bed does looks just a tad short for an adult, however. The middle sized “suitcase room” opens out like a shell to become an office.

These shelves could be made to stow permanently with another fold up piece in the front to make them bins. The table is cleverly designed to fill both sides of the clamshell when closed. Via Cubeme. 40 Small Bedrooms Ideas To Make Your Home Look Bigger. Hiddenbedcanada. Hiddenbed - Double your Space. 8 amazing micro-apartments. This is a very wide sales promotion by the real estate lobby and industry to alter the minimum legal apartment size in New York City and elsewhere.

8 amazing micro-apartments

They have the billionaire Mayor, who has several whole houses for himself, behind them and even set up a pr exhibit at The Museum of the City of New York to promote all the joys of cramming into smaller space! If they can only make them smaller, they say, the apartments will be cheaper and more plentiful! In fact if they could only set tenants up in refrigerators or coffins and make it sound cool, exciting and profitable, they would! This is a gross scam and should not be promoted on here or anywhere else. Stop real estate greed as it is a parasitical industry and just takes advantage of people utilizing all kinds of government supports: tax write offs, subsidies, abatements and what not, while claiming, naturally, that rents should be uncontrolled and "free market.

" Space saving furniture that transforms 1 room into 2 or 3.

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How Big Is Your Home? See How Your Space Compares to Those Around the World. Graham Hill’s flat is 420 square-feet, HGTV’s smart home is 2,400 square-feet and Al Gore’s home is quite a bit bigger.

How Big Is Your Home? See How Your Space Compares to Those Around the World

But just how big is the average home these days, and how big does it need to be? When you compare average new home size around the world, you see pretty quickly that one man’s home really is another man’s castle. The disparity in the figures begs a question: When do we have enough space? As home sizes have swelled over the years a growing number of people are asking whether less can actually be more. Are we finally reaching a point where people want better spaces, rather than simply bigger spaces? + Shrink That Footprint The article above was submitted to us by an Inhabitat reader. Get Organized: 25 Totally Clever Storage Tips & Tricks. By Jaime Morrison Curtis | I think it was Tina Fey who said that what places like the Container Store are really selling is hope.

Get Organized: 25 Totally Clever Storage Tips & Tricks

I completely agree — the promise of a more organized life is so optimistic and uplifting. To that end, I’ve scoured the web for 25 fresh storage tips and tricks that are easy to execute and promise a dose of satisfaction and a sense of peace in your home. Check out these 25 totally unique storage tips and tricks and let us know if any storage tidbits have changed your life for the better … nggallery id=’121806′ Cutlery Trays for Jewelry Hanging cutlery trays from the wall makes a unique way to keep jewelry organized.

Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms.