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Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan | Posted 02.04.2013 | San Francisco
Read More: Mico Units, Micro-Units, Tiny Homes, Space-Saving Furniture, Micro-Home, Home Design, Tiny Apartments, Small Apartments, Apartments, Space Savers, San Francisco News
Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan

While a fierce debate rages over micro-units, we should step back and realize that with good design, a space can feel as big as you want it to despite its square footage.

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Watch: Teen Builds Mortgage-Free Dorm on Wheels

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 12.16.2012 | College
Read More: Style News, Teen Builder, Debt, Green News, Transformable Furniture, Consumption, Space-Making Furniture, Fold Away Furniture, Santa Rosa, Minimalism, Small Home, Austin Hay, Home Size, Mini House, Photovoltaics, Home Payments, Mortgage-Free, Sebastopol, Composting Toilet, Space-Saving Furniture, Solar, House Payments, Small Space Furniture, DIY Building, Diy, Minihousebuilder, Styleist Home, Small Space, Mortgage, Small House Movement, Tiny House, Simple Living, Simplicity, Tiny House on Wheels, Tiny Home, Off Grid, Video, College News
Kirsten Dirksen

Total cost was $12,000, but it's debt-free and it's much more than your typical college digs. It has a full kitchen (including a fridge/freezer, sink and camping oven), a sofa-bed he built himself, a nearly full-sized shower (he chopped the top off) and a composting toilet.

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WATCH: "Shotgun Shack" Family Remodels Tiny Home for $700 DIY-Style

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 12.03.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Style News, Mortgage-Free, Debt, Space-Saving Furniture, Tiny House Remodel, House Payments, Small Space Furniture, Innovation Station, DIY Building, Transformable Furniture, Consumption, Space-Making Furniture, Fold Away Furniture, Minimalism, Video, Small Space, Small House Movement, Small Home, Mortgage, Unemployment, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Diy, Green News, Simplicity, Home Payments, Ozarks, Tiny Home, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

Three years ago, this family left their 4-bedroom home to move into a 320-square-foot prefab. Yikes!

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A Tiny Home For A Family Of Three

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.15.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Small Family Home, Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Small Space Furniture, Small Space Living, Tiny Apartment, Space-Making Furniture, Family Apartment, Small Space, Small House Movement, Small Home, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

When designer Monica Potvin and her husband Marquel bought a small apartment in Barcelona's Poble Nou neighborhood, they had no plans of having children so they knocked down walls to create an open studio space with plenty of light.

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Could You Live In A 300 Square Foot Rental Apartment?

Ron Barth | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: New York Rental Apartments, Resource Furniture, Adapt Initiative, New Your Real Estate, Tips for Small Spaces, Small Space Furniture, Bloomberg Adapt, Ron Barth, Small Space Living, Space Saving Furniture, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, HuffPost Home News
Ron Barth

With New Yorkers increasingly opting to rent rather than buy and overall vacancy rates at less than one percent, affordable rentals are scarcer than e...

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WATCH: Tiny Apartment Hides Bathtub in a Drawer (and Closet Under the Bed)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.16.2012 | New York
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Green News, Transformer Furniture, Small Space Furniture, Transformable Furniture, Space-Making Furniture, Tiny Apartment, Fold Away Furniture, Bamboo Furniture, Small Space, Small House Movement, Small Home, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Tatami Chairs, Simplicity, Retractable Furniture, Crafted Furniture, Bamboo, Tiny Home, Styleist, Micro-Apartment, Best of Ny, Video, New York News
Kirsten Dirksen

Over the past few years I've filmed a Lego-style transforming flat, a unit with a walk-thru shower and fridge-in-a-drawer and a small space where the architect cut a hole in the roof to create an indoor/outdoor shower.

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Zen Meets Tiny Homes: Movable Paper Walls Transform Spaces (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Downsizing, Small Space Furniture, Modern Architecture, Space-Making Furniture, Miel Architects, Small Space, Small Home, Small House Movement, Shoji Panels, Simple Living, Simplicity, Barcelona Housing, Japanese Design, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

Inspired by Japanese homes, the architects not only made the bathroom the center of the living space, but he copied the concept of Shoji "paper" panels. They don't simply view the doors as dividers, but as a way to change their clients' perspective on their home.

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Morphing, Modular Furniture of the Future: Tetris-like Stacking + LEGOish Shelves (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 07.29.2012 | Style
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Transformer Furniture, Lego Furniture, Transformable Furniture, Space-Making Furniture, Tiny Apartment, Modular Furniture, Small Space, Future Furniture, Simplicity, Urban Furniture, Nomadic Furniture, Antxon Salvador, Tiny Home, Brickbox, Video, Style News
Kirsten Dirksen

If our future homes are urban, compact and temporary, than the furniture of the future will look something like BrickBox.

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WATCH: Space-Invading Apartment Boasts Walk-Through Shower and Fridge-In-Drawer

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Small Space Furniture, Microhome, Tiny Apartment, Space-Making Furniture, Fold Away Furniture, Small Space, Small Home, Home Size, Retractable Furniture, Apartment Small Spaces, Downsizing Apartment, Tiny Homes, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

John MacPeek has fond memories of living out of a suitcase when he first moved to Europe over two decades ago, so when he was looking to buy an apartment in Barcelona, he was ready to live in something compact where everything he owned was accounted for.

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WATCH: We the Tiny House People: Documentary Trailer

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 06.19.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Small Apartment, Space-Saving Furniture, Entertainment, Shelter, Downsizing, Documentary Trailer, Small House, Christian Schallert, Microhome, Tiny Apartment, Movies, Jay Shafer, Small Space, Small Home, Small House Movement, Lego Apartment, Tiny House, Home Size, Simple Living, Moviefone, Simplicity, Tiny Home, Thoreau, Tiny House People Documentary, Video, Entertainment News
Kirsten Dirksen

I continue to discover people who aren't even aware of this movement: iving in shipping containers, houseboats, tool sheds, former pigeon coops and treehouses. These stripped-down shelters reveal for us the essence of home.

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WATCH: Architect & Carpenter Craft Tiny Passive Solar Backyard Hideaway

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.10.2012 | Green
Read More: Recycled Wood, Backyard Office, John Mcbride, Backyard Shedworking, Space-Saving Furniture, Small Studio, Passive Solar, Craftsmanship, Green Building, Architecture, Backyard Studio, Small Space Furniture, Craft, Innovation Station, Secondary Structure, Salvaged Materials, Green Living, Tiny Space, Sarah Deeds, Video, Small Space, Small House Movement, Homemade, Deeds Design, Diy, Salvaged Redwood, Shedworking, Tiny Studio, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

At 120 square feet their backyard hideaway was carefully designed to maximize space. The space is condensed, but Sarah Deeds sees that as an advantage: it puts you closer to your views and nature.

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San Francisco's Smallest Legal Apartments Inspired by Airstream

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 04.22.2012 | Green
Read More: Smart Spaces, Small Space, Prefab Construction, Small Apartment, Small Home, Small House Movement, Space-Saving Furniture, Prefab, Built-in Furniture, Home Size, Patrick Kennedy, Urban Levittown, Tiny Apartment, Tiny Home, Smartspace, Video, Green News
Kirsten Dirksen

Bay Area developer Patrick Kennedy wants to build the housing equivalent of the Smart Car. His SmartSpaces will be small -- just a couple hundred square feet -- and prefabricated.

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Watch: Abandoned Garage Transformed Into Fabulous Home in Bordeaux, France

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Maison Garage, Small Home, Space-Saving Furniture, Converted Garage, Transformer Furniture, Transformable Furniture, Space-Making Furniture, Garage Home, Diy Home, Diy, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

Photographer Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux, but he wasn't finding anything he liked. Then he stumbled upon a listing for a garage.

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Space Saving Furniture That Transforms One Room Into Two or Three (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 08.30.2011 | Style
Read More: Space-Saving Furniture, Downsizing, Green News, Murphy Bed, Transformer Furniture, New York City, Small House, Small Space Furniture, Transformable Furniture, Wall Bed, Small Space, Tiny Homes, Urban Living, Home Size, Tiny Apartments, Pull Down Bed, Retractable Furniture, Video, Style News
Kirsten Dirksen

At a time when many of us -- due to finances, the environment or increasing urbanization -- are trying to put our homes on a diet, there's one obvious place to cut: our bedrooms.

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