Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.
Question: What would happen if you combined the LifeEdited apartment and Gary Chang’s transforming Hong Kong apartment and made the fusion out of plywood and common hardware store materials? Answer: Studio_01‘s barcode room. The space was a winner of a.
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Transforming furniture can be extremely useful in one’s quest to do more with less. It has the ability to make a room do double or triple duty, allowing you to live in a space much smaller than you might have.
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Moveable walls are a familiar and useful tool in maximizing the function of a small space. We incorporated it into the LifeEdited Apartment, Gary Cheng did it, Clei Furniture used it in their Elastic Living concept, it was there in the Environmental Grantmakers Association office, and the.
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For better of worse, dining has gotten pretty casual in our modern times, with many people taking their meals on a couch, at a small kitchen table or, if we have one, counter. Paying for and maintaining a dedicated dining room whose main function.
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File this Dutch-university-student-designed Pop.up Apartment under the no-freaking-way category. Relying on polypropylene sheets that slide along motorized guides in the floor, the 50 sq m (538 sq ft) apartment can be configured in dozens of ways, giving it the functionality.
Read More »Artist and fabricator Christy Oates is a master at blurring the lines between decoration and furniture. Her origami-inspired pieces have the detail and beauty of traditional wood-working, while her manufacturing processes–which include computer-aided design (CAD) and laser-cut, CNC machines–are decidedly new school. Check above.
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This Didomestic apartment by Madrid’s Elii Architects has been making the blog rounds lately. There’s a lot going on in the 620 sq ft converted attic. Much of the apartment’s furnishings can fully concealed in floor and ceiling cavities. On.
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Nester is a Canadian company that makes adaptable, transformable furniture that would work well in small homes. The two pieces on offer are the Kameleon table and the Repeater chair. The former is a table that transforms from 15″ x.
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We throw the name Resource Furniture around this site with a high degree of frequency. The New York City-based retailer–who also has seven other outlets around the world–has one of, if not the largest collection of transforming furniture on the.
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Paul Menand is a French industrial designer who works with common materials to make furniture that is anything but. Of particular note are his Triplette Chair and the Modest Stool (Chaise Triplette and Tabouret Modeste en française). Upon first glance,.
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