Small Spaces

Creative Uses for High Ceiling Spaces

August 24, 2011

If you’re running low on floor space but have an abundance of headroom, maybe you can build something like this! I’ll take it! The photo above pretty much rocks my world. I love this whole thing. The particular shade of wood on the doors and floors is beautiful, and it all works great with the [...]

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Winder Up! — Space Saving Stair Designs

June 4, 2011

Everybody has a claim to fame. Sometimes they change, and I hope mine does, but here’s what it was back in the old days: I was the guy who could figure out how to add a second floor onto any house, even after other contractors said it couldn’t be done. There were usually two issues. [...]

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Open Beam Ceilings and Great Color = Awesome Small Space

April 26, 2011

Yesterday, I wrote a post about a really great DIY Green Wall Vertical Garden Thingy that I ran across while chasing down a photo that caught my eye. This is that photo: This space really caught my eye because my family and I live in a tiny house of just under 1000sf, having downsized from [...]

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Modern Small Space Design

January 10, 2011

Are you ready for this: At first glance I said to myself, I’m not ready for that. I guess it was like a little introspective moment because the more I thought about, the more I thought… well maybe. Whoknew? I’ve known for quite some time that I could be converted to the dark side, er. [...]

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Small House Living — At a whole new level! (video)

August 6, 2010

We live in a 1000sf home. Four of us. Three boys (including me) and one saint of a woman. The plan was to make it larger, seeing as how I made my living building room additions for many years. But the wonderful Florida real estate market had other plans and as time has gone on, [...]

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Courtyards — The Outdoor Version of “Small is the new big.”

July 7, 2010

The cover of a House Beautiful magazine on the table next to me asks “Is small the new big?”. If I say yes, can we all agree on 40 being the new 30? I was led from said magazine to the website, HouseBeautiful.com, where I stumbled upon this picture. I usually flip through the pictures [...]

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5 Mediocre Storage Ideas For Small Spaces

February 28, 2010

5 almost great ways of using every nook and cranny for efficient and beautiful storage. Here’s the deal — I live in a really small house. If you’ve been to my blog before you know the story. We were going to add-on, life happened, budget flew out the window, addition plans change. So I live [...]

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Maybe Size Doesn’t Matter After All!

January 8, 2010

Oh man, I’m in trouble now. All this time I’ve tried to avoid titles like this. Not that I don’t think of them, I do, I am a man after all, and sometimes a mischievous one. But I usually restrain myself so as not to offend anyone. But it’s late, and I’ve probably spent too [...]

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Small Houses and Green Living

January 7, 2010

My wife and sons must have inherited my fondness for small spaces. Or, maybe traveling the country in a motorhome taught us all to love the comfort of close quarters together. Or could it have been the move from 3000sf down to 1000sf that did it? Whatever the reason, for us, small houses are better. [...]

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Make The Most of Small Spaces

November 1, 2009

A little too busy to write a new post this week, I decided to bring back a “classic” (from way back in January!). I hope it encourages you and I wish you a great week! I’ve been thinking a great deal about small spaces lately. That surprises me given that I’ve made most of my [...]

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Bump-Out Additions — Small Spaces , Big Impact

September 29, 2009

Have you ever looked with slight contempt at one of those exterior walls and thought “If I could just bump that wall out a little bit…”? I know I have! I guess I don’t count, but you’re still not alone! I wrote a post back in January about small spaces and one of the most [...]

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You Need an Angle — Build an Angled Bookcase

April 25, 2009

An angled bookcase can really add some unique interest to a room. And the dark color looks great in this house. Gotta love that trim framing it all out! Looks like this house uses a crown molding at the top of all the door headers! Fancy! I don’t know though… would the angle get on [...]

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Twenty Reasons I Love a Tiny House

April 10, 2009

My family of four lives in 1000 square feet, and we love it! I’m really not kidding you, we totally love it! Even our boys love it, and they have to share a room! I bet that’s hard to imagine for many people. It would have been hard for me to imagine not long ago. [...]

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Chair Rails and Wainscoting

March 10, 2009

Doesn’t this picture look great? Would you believe that the trim carpentry work in this picture is only a few hours worth of effort? That’s the magic of chair rails and wainscot paneling; they aren’t terribly difficult, but make a huge impact! In this post, I’ll give you some of the details you need to [...]

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