Manhattan shoebox apartment: a 78-square-foot mini studio


A couple years ago, Manhattan architect Luke Clark Tyler, lived in a 96 square foot apartment. Instead of upsizing with his latest move, he chose to squeeze himself and his belongings into even less space. Luke now lives in a 78 square foot shoebox studio. It's too narrow to fit a bed lengthwise, but using a bit of plywood and 2x4s he built his own custom bed/couch. He keeps his clothes, plates, microwave, books, spices and shaving and cleaning supplies in a large built-in cabinet. The rest of his kitchen is a tiny refrigerator that helps hold up his desk (he works for home as a contract architect). While he admits he misses being able to cook a real meal- though he's vegetarian so eats a lot of vegetables and nuts and can even microwave eggs- Luke doesn't see living small as a sacrifice. He loves living in the heart of New York City- his place is in Midtown Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen- and he likes paying just $750/month (cheaper than the shared housing he could find in the area). Luke's website: www.lukeclarktyler.com Original story: faircompanies.com


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Lego-style apartment transforms into infinite spaces


When Christian Schallert isn't cooking, dressing, sleeping or eating, his 24 square meter (258 square feet) apartment looks like an empty cube. To use a piece of furniture, he has to build it. Located in Barcelona's hip Born district, the tiny apartment is a remodeled pigeon loft. Christian says its design was inspired by the space-saving furniture aboard boats, as well as the clean lines of a small Japanese home. Spanish-version tour with architect Barbara Appolloni: faircompanies.com Barbara Appalloni's Christian House: www.barbaraappolloni.com Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Simple life Manhattan: a 90-square-foot microstudio


By choosing a studio that measures just 12 feet by 7 feet, Felice Cohen can afford to live in Manhattan's Upper West Side where apartments rent for an average of $3600 per month. She pays just over $700 for her 90-square-foot microstudio. After a bit of adjustment she now loves living smaller, simpler and cozier. More on Felice's book: www.whatpapatoldme.com Felice's blog: felicecohen.wordpress.com Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms


In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought as big as an apartment as he could afford in Manhattan. He paid $235000 for a 450-square-foot studio with a tiny kitchen. Then he let architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects design a way to pack more density into his small space. In order to fit more apartment in a small footprint, they created an object that's bigger than furniture, but smaller than architecture and that morphs with the changing activities of a day. It's a large, blue, oversized cabinet that houses all of the walls/bed/tables/shelving/closets needed for at least 4 full-sized rooms. By continuing to unfold, or fold differently, Schneider can create a bedroom with accompanying built-in nightstand and closets, but an office plus library, a guest bedroom, and a living room. Or close it up entirely and simply flip down the small bar and the room becomes entertaining space for a dozen. The Normal Projects architects called their creation the Unfolding Apartment, though given Schneider's affinity for the Japanese sense of space (he spent his first year post-college living and teaching in Japan), it could as easily be called the Origami Apartment. In total, Schneider spent $70000 total remodeling his new apartment and this includes not just the cabinet, but the bathroom renovation, all cabinetry, kitchen appliances, furniture and dishes. In this video, Chen shows us his custom cabinet of rooms and Schneider unfolds a few of his favorite <b>...</b>


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Tiny apartment for 4 (bed-under-stairs and living-room-on-roof included)


A Barcelona mother shows us her 500-square-foot apartment that she is transforming for the birth of her 2nd child. She has transforming furniture ("Murphy tables") and creative storage (shoes between stair steps).


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136 cats in a small apartment


A resident of Novosibirsk in northern Russia has been adopting unwanted and abandoned cats for the last fifteen years. Now, as a result, she shares a tiny three room apartment with 136 of them.


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Resource Furniture: Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture


Ron Barth, President of Resource Furniture (www.resourcefurniture.com/space-savers), demonstrates and explains their amazing line of Italian-designed space-savers.


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Transforming a tiny apartment for a growing family (kid #2)


Marta Barceló lives in a 47 square meter (505 sq ft) apartment in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. She first moved in with her husband. Then they had a son so they built him a bed under the stairs. Then they had a second son, so they put the living room on the roof, built a closet under the stairs and put their sons in bunkbeds in the old living room-turned-bedroom. Part 1 of this story here: faircompanies.com Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Tiny Apartment Show: Episode 101 "Sexy Night" Princess Leia


MORE EPISODES AT TINYAPARTMENTSHOW.COM Jessie tries to surprise Mike with a sexy night by dressing in (what she thinks) is the infamous Princess Leia outfit. Alas, the night doesn't really go the way Jessie hoped it would. For more episodes, go to tinyapartmentshow.com


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Hi Mom!: My Small Apartment in Tokyo


This is the first time ever that I let my Mom see my tiny apartment in Tokyo.


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One tiny apartment, 24 rooms? Incredible domestic ...


Need a bigger living space? Check out this amazing conversion of a Hong Kong apartment into 24 separate rooms. Plus, Hitler continues to freak out, this time over YouTube.


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Blade 400 hovering in tiny apartment


Eflite Blade 400 3D does In-Ground-Effect hover inside apartment. Notice how the helicopter is pulled towards areas of faster moving recirculation, and thus lower pressure .... Needless to say, I do NOT recommend flying a 400 size helicopter indoors. Yes I did it but I'm crazy. These things will hurt you. I've been hit by this thing before, with Carbon Fiber blades on it - the blades went through a good size vein - put a hairline crack in the bone underneath - and I lost round about a half pint of blood in under a minute (until I got my shirt off and wrapped around the wound). Think of them as a flying lawn mower. For a 450 size heli (or .30 nitro) at flight speed the blade tips have *roughly* the same energy as that of a .22 caliber bullet. They will hurt you bad if not careful.


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Home Organizing Tips : How to Organize a Studio or Small Apartment


The best way to organize a studio or small apartment is through the use of containers, especially for storing items like dirty clothes and blankets. Avoid turning a small apartment into a clutter trap with tips from a professional house cleaner and organizer in this free video on housekeeping. Expert: Ann Myrick Bio: Since 1997, Ann Myrick has been a professional decorator, house cleaner, home organizer and planner. Filmmaker: Tim Brown


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Real Estate Tips : How to Decorate a Teeny, Tiny Apartment


The size of your apartment plays a big factor in deciding how to decorate it. Decorate a teeny tiny apartment with help from a real estate personality in this free video clip. Expert: Herman Chan Contact: www.habitatforhermanity.com Bio: Herman Chan is a real estate personality, broker, writer, speaker and videoblogger. Filmmaker: Pierre Forcioli-Conti Series Description: Selling a home involves things like decorating and other forms of preparation. Get real estate tips with help from a real estate personality in this free video series.


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Living small in NYC: sharing all but a bedroom


The upside of life in a crowded (dense), car un-friendly (walkable), expensive (forced communalism) town. Where sharing is unavoidable and the "swanning" is ideal.


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Super Tiny baby bunny crawling around apartment


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A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms


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Rear Window living: density + small homes = crossed glances


Charged with designing an apartment complex to house 111 low-income families in small spaces, architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores decided to blur the line between public and private space to gain square footage. Prats and Flores used Italian Renaissance palaces for inspiration (even traveling to Florence to take exact measurements of the facades of the Pitti and Strozzi palaces) and created a piazza as the main focus of the complex. The residents of Edificio 111 live in apartments of a very un-palatial size- as small as 55 square meters (590 square feet)-, but what they give up in personal space they gain in community, as well as a bit of reality theater (very much in the style of Hitchcock's Rear Window). Photo credits: Duccia Malagamba (exterior); Adria Goula (interiors) Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Asian guy lives in world's smallest apartment


This asian guy lives in the world's smallest apartment. Successful Life in a Small Apartment Won an award at the MOFILM Pepsi Short Film Competition at the Shanghai International Film Festival! www.mofilm.com


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my small apartment in shanghai


this is my first apartment in shanghai,I bought it in mar 2007,and redecorated in may and july 2007.and I designed it,I bought a lot of furnitures in ikea shanghai,and it was displayed in a famous decoration magazine of shanghai.now I upload it to share for you all.


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Tour of a Very Tiny Apartment


With Linden Street items from JCPenney and perhaps a moose.


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Our starter apartment: 400 sq ft with tub & laundry


When you want to live center city, space is at a premium. Until we started out family, we lived in about 400 square feet in the center of Barcelona. It was enough space for a home office, bedroom, kitchen, and even a bathroom with a tub and a small washing machine. Link to original article: faircompanies.com


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Very small NY apartment


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Jamie Kennedy Experiment - Small Apartment


A boy tricks his parents into thinking he has moved into a very small apartment with some friends.


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A tour of our tiny Japanese apartment


This is our place....take a look and feel envious at the sheer space!


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Ellen Degeneres - NY Diary: "Big city, small apartments"


Ellen is looking for the smallest apartment in New-York City (November 2005). PS. Sorry for the watermark :s


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China Capsule Apartments, $35/Month


"CBS News RAW": A capsule apartment block located in the outskirts of Beijing has 20 square feet apartments, where tenants can barely even fit their beds, although rent is only $35 a month.


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DIY home for less than $3500


In a town where the median home price is over half a million dollars, Jenine Alexander decided to build her own. Using resources like the tiny house blogs and the 1950 bestselling DIY book "Your Dream Home: How to Build It for Less Than $3500" (a gift from a friend), Jenine spent less than $3500 on her home. In fact, she used nearly only materials recovered from the dump or found on craigslist and the only things she paid for were a used trailer and fasteners (nails, screws, hinges, etc). She built it on wheels not just to get around minimum size standards, but mostly because she couldn't afford land in her hometown of Healdsburg, California. Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Crowdsourcing tiny home design (a 420-sq-ft Soho pad)


The average home size in the US doubled in the past century but happiness levels stayed flat. Serial entrepreneur Graham Hill argues that we should take note of this and cut, cut, cut. He calls his mantra LifeEdited and he believes we'll actually be happier if we cut the size of our homes, cars, collection of stuff and even our number of friends. To take the conversation public, he's bought a tiny apartment in New York's Soho and he's preparing to crowdsource its redesign. Hill shows us the "before" of his 420-square-foot mini apartment and talks about his vision for a wall-less "jewel box" where smart multifunctional furniture can transform the space depending on need. Original story here: faircompanies.com


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Maison garage: old parking as tiny home in Bordeaux, France


Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux (he's a photographer who splits his time between Paris and Bordeaux so his budget was limited), but he wasn't finding anything he liked. Then he stumbled upon a listing for a garage. There was no house, it was just an abandoned garage for sale. And it looked like one. It had big metal doors that blocked out any sunlight and inside it was being used more as a junk room. So Buchholtz called his friend and architect Matthieu de Marien who specializes in converting stores, offices and other spaces into homes. De Marien took one look at the historic street and recognized it as something special. Passage Buhan is a private passageway where the owners each own half of the road so life extends into the street. And the history here is rich: a couple centuries ago, the laneway housed horses and their riders en route to the then city of Bordeaux and the old stable still sits on the street. Buchholtz bought the property and De Marien quickly cut into the old garage to create more light and ventilation. The roof is historic and couldn't be touched so he carved a 12 square meter (129 square foot) patio out of the small space, leaving only 41 square meters of living space (441 square feet). In order to make the space feel larger, De Marien created a "house within a house": one large piece of furniture that includes the bathroom, bedroom, office, closet, a sofa bed and all of the home's storage. With everything contained in <b>...</b>


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Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment


www.ted.com Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles -- researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http


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Modern hobbit house: a tiny cob home


Margaret Krome-Lukens shows us the cob home being built by interns at North Carolina's Pickards Mountain Eco-Institute. Since iher new home is less than 150 square feet, she talks about the joy of giving up stuff to move in.


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A former garage becomes a transformable, tiny home in Bordeaux, France


French 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. The garage definitely looked like a garage; it had big metal doors that blocked out any sunlight and inside it was being used more as a junk room. Most of his friends thought he was crazy to consider turning it into a home, but Buchholtz called his friend and architect Matthieu de Marien who specializes in converting stores, offices and other spaces into homes and asked if he'd come give his opinion. De Marien took one look at the historic street and recognized it as something special. Passage Buhan is a private passageway where the owners each own half of the road so life extends into the street. And the history here is rich: a couple centuries ago, the laneway housed horses and their riders en route to Left Bank Bordeaux and the old stable still sits on the street. Buchholtz bought the property and De Marien quickly cut into the old garage to create more light and ventilation. The roof is historic and couldn't be touched so he carved a 12 square meter (129 square foot) patio out of the small space, leaving only 41 square meters of living space (441 square feet). In order to make the space feel larger, De Marien created a "house within a house": one large piece of furniture that includes the bathroom, bedroom, office, closet, a sofa bed and all of the home's storage. With everything contained in this <b>...</b>


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House in a suitcase: tiny home + 2 trunks of furniture


Original story here: faircompanies.com In 1996, Barcelona architects Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores were hired to convert an old community laundry into a penthouse. At just 27 square meters (290 square feet), the space was minimal; it was also just a temporary home and the clients wanted a home that was maintenance-free. Prats and Flores (in collaboration with the Mallorcan architectural firm Duch-Pizà) delivered their solution in the form of two suitcases. Their "Casa en una Maleta" (House in a Suitcase) consists of two big trunks in the center of the room which can be opened throughout the day to satisfy daily living needs.


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Nakagin Capsule Tower Tokyo Japan


The Nakagin Capsule Tower, one of the smallest tiny apartments ever build. Architect: Kisho Kurokawa Design / Construction:1970-1972 Building Area: 429.51 meters Total Floor Area: 3091.23 meters Size: 107.6 sq. ft / 10 sq. m (4×2.5m) Location: Tokyo, Ginza, Japan Building type: High-rise Tower Apartment Construction: Steele structure with attached capsules


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A tiny, little, pathetic Kona.. From when we had JUST found him!


He is soooo little and SSSOOO dirty.. it took forever to clean him! Here he is.. when we JUST found him and we are cleaning him up... We found him on the street in front of an old building while vacationing in Turkey. This was our small apartment which we actually were not allowed to have cats in at all. But look at him! We had to save him! For the rest of Kona's story, check out my channel.. oh, and yes, that toothbrush is still one of his favorite toys!


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Pictures of anime & Japanese collection in small apartment


My anime, Japanese collection in my apartment.


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