The stereotypical profile of someone living in a 129 sq ft apartment is a person who might have trouble putting together enough scratch to afford ramen noodles. Therefore the idea that he or she could pull off a tasteful and smart renovation is nearly.
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Whether you’re aware of it or not, most homes–or to be more precise, “dwelling units”–require parking. Meeting these requirements is not a big deal in low density suburbs with their copious amounts of space for driveways and garages. But it’s a big issue.
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Back in the day, most non-manufacturing jobs involved showing up at an office at 9:00am, sitting at a desk for 8 hours and going home (tag a lunch break in there, and no smoke breaks because you puff at your desk). While.
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What do you do with a space that’s tall, skinny and only has light coming from its roof? That’s the question Marc Sirvin and Clémence Eliard of Agence SML set out to answer with Alban Diner’s 28 ft, shaft-like Parisian apartment..
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Our problems today, more often than not, are the same ones we had yesterday, albeit a day later. As such, designing the optimal urban housing–one that is easy to construct, achieves high density, that can change and adapt with its environment.
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It’s a big week for small red spaces here at LifeEdited. First, was su11’s 620 sq ft Manhattan family pad, and today it’s Paul Coudamy‘s Red Nest. In a feat of architectural magic, Coudamy fit a bedroom, bathroom, dressing and a.
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There are approximately 105,000,000 parking spaces in the United States–five for every car. At least half of all available parking spaces are vacant 40% of the time. That’s a lot of unused space dedicated to something that, while still in wide.
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Forgive us if we seem like anti-sprawl-ites, but evidence keeps mounting that sprawl is neither planet nor people friendly. A study commissioned by Smart Growth America called “Measuring Sprawl and its Impact” looked at 221 metropolitan areas and 994 counties.
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You read it right: we are selling the LifeEdited prototype apartment (internally dubbed LE1). The 420 sq ft wonder was the winner of the AIA NY Honor Award as well as the Architizer A+ Award for Small Living. It has.
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Sometimes we like to come up with novel things to say about interesting small spaces we feature here. We are after their je ne sais quoi–something this space does better than the rest. Today, we’ll dispense with such flourishes and just.
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