From the category archives:

Small Spaces

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 living [...]

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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 [...]

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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 your nerves [...]

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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.
We [...]

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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 get started.
What is [...]

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A Great Storage Solution – At Blissful Home

February 11, 2009

Hi Crew! Thanks for coming by today!
Some of you know that I’m the lucky man amidst hundreds of women over at Blissfully Domestic Magazine, where I write a regular column for the Blissful Home Channel.
My post there today is pretty cool. Here is a teaser…
I saw this awesome storage solution for a small space:

And I [...]

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Make the Most of Small Spaces

January 18, 2009

I’ve been thinking a great deal about small spaces lately. That surprises me given that I’ve made most of my living by making houses larger!
Family of Four in 1000 sf?
It might have to do with the fact that my family has recently moved from a house of about 3000 sf to one of only 1000 [...]

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