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Eight Ways to Prevent Household Waste for Fun and Profit

Jacquelyn Ottman | Posted 05.06.2013 | Green
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Jacquelyn Ottman

Ask a roomful of consumers, "Who here hates to see things go to waste?" and every hand will likely shoot up. But, if everyone hates to waste, then how come we generate so much of it? And what can we do to prevent waste from being created in the first place?

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NYC Transformer Loft Morphs Space: Walls Open, Fold And Slide (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 01.26.2013 | HuffPost Home
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Kirsten Dirksen

Nearly every "wall" in Rosa and Robert Garneau's transformer loft opens.

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WATCH: 325-Square-Foot Tiny 'Cave' Apartment With DIY and Upcycled Furniture

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 01.08.2013 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Small Apartment, Tiny Apartment, Tiny Home, DIY Furniture, Diy Home, Small Apartment Video, Tiny Apartment Video, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

Monica Potvin and Markel Otaola bought the 323-square-foot apartment in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter during their child-free years, when location was more important than space.

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

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.16.2012 | New York
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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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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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The Lives of Tiny House People: Direct Cinema Documentary (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 06.27.2012 | Entertainment
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Kirsten Dirksen

This week I released via YouTube -- in an attempt to make it some type of "of the people, for the people" -- my documentary We the Tiny House People: Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters in the New and Old World.

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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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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: Man Transforms His Tiny Manhattan Apartment Into 'Origami'

Posted 01.10.2012 | New York
Read More: Origami Apartment, Manhattan Real Estate, NY Real Estate, Tiny Apartment, Manhattan Apartment, Luke Clark Tyler, Eric Schneider, Apartments, New York News

Stuck with a tiny apartment? Rather than squeeze your way into a cramped space and leave virtually no walking room for yourself, take a cue from Manha...

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Simple Life Manhattan: A 90-Square-Foot Microstudio (Video)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Manhattan, Small Apartment, Small Space, New York, Downsizing, Home Size, New York City, Simplicity, Simple Life, Tiny Apartment, Tiny Home, Downshifting, NY Real Estate, New York News
Kirsten Dirksen

While the average American is still living relatively large, there is a growing group of Tiny House People who are choosing to live in trailers, RVs, yurts, boats and very small houses.

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The Transformer (VIDEO): Hong Kong Architect's Tiny Apartment Has 24 Room Options

Posted 04.04.2013 | Green
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Downsizing your home is one of the simplest ways to live more sustainably. But having a small home doesn't necessarily have to be synonymous with bein...

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