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Name:

Ashley & Ryan

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Square Feet:

318

Division:

Teeny-Tiny

What I Love About My Small Home:

Our possessions reflect the things and people we love: Ryan's granddad made our coffee table, his mom painted most of our artwork, and we have a great collection of family pictures and furniture from my grandparents' house. The first thing we ever bought together (a Dia de los Muertos diorama) is on the shelf in our bedroom. It reminds us that we created this space together. We are proud that we have taken advantage of the limited space we have, and have created a home that is comfortable and relaxing. We share compatible styles that kind of meld into "mad scientist." We like to show off our taxidermy bugs, comic books, vinyl records, and Star Wars things!

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Name:

Cristian

Location:

Bucuresti Romania

Square Feet:

410

Division:

International

What I Love About My Small Home:

My small open space studio is very airy, cozy and warm. I really love the light I get all year round. My home doesn’t really have rooms, but it has several well defined spaces: living, kitchen, dining, sleeping, dressing. Apart form the kitchen space, everything else can be easily moved, so the space always looks different. I never get bored of moving things around and reconfiguring the plan.

Whether you call it a Murphy bed or a wall bed, these folding sleeping quarters are great for small spaces. While there are plenty of options for wall beds out there, many of them look cheap or old fashioned. We sorted through all the options and found eight great resources for modern, high design Murphy beds.

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Name:

Jennifer

Location:

San Francisco, CA

Square Feet:

550

Division:

Tiny

What I Love About My Small Home:

It's our cozy little love shack. Our apartment is decorated and filled with things that are equally loved by both of us. And because of its smaller size, The Cozy Shack makes us curate our lives. if we find something we love and bring it home, we have to get rid of something else to accommodate it.

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Name:

Joseph

Location:

Bethesda, MD

Square Feet:

900

Division:

Small

What I Love About My Small Home:

First of all, its situation on the 7th floor of my 16 floor building, with windows looking west/south-west, which means it's always full of light, sunny from noon to sunset, followed by often starry nights. Second, I love the organization of my space. Since I spend most of my time writing on my computer (I teach French literature), I’ve transformed the master bedroom into my working space and library, and I’ve been using the smaller room as my bedroom. I divided the third space into dining room and living room. Finally, I furnished these spaces by giving each their own style: modern design in the dining and living room; wood tonality in the bedroom (the bed is made of South African wood); two tonalities for the working space (the library shelves are white, and the table I use as desk is in cherry wood from Tennessee). So overall, what I love here? The well-lighted rooms and the space setting and tonalities.

Of course I love all of our Apartment Therapy videos, but the ones from our 'Favorite Things' series are some of my, er, favorites. These videos take a look at the things we treasure and the stories behind them. Though they're ostensibly about stuff, the videos are so funny and personal — they're an exploration of the things we keep in our homes, our relationships to them, and why we love them. 

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Name:

Jerome

Location:

Amsterdam Netherlands

Square Feet:

500

Division:

International

What I Love About My Small Home:

I love the big windows that allow a lot of natural light to enter my small space. Even though my apartment is tiny, it allows me to have a nice view of the canal and house boats. I dont feel that I live in a small space. There are six big windows in my 2 floor apartment.

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Name:

Bradley

Location:

Rochester , NY

Square Feet:

860

Division:

Small

What I Love About My Small Home:

I love the original bungalow character of my home. Simple things like the old hex tile on the bathroom floor, wooden medicine cabinet, chunky baseboards, wooden windows, Chambers stove and solid oak front door give this house an established, yet unassuming feel.

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Name:

Leonora

Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Square Feet:

480

Division:

Tiny

What I Love About My Small Home:

My cozy bungalow is classic 1930s California, and filled with mid-century flea market finds and family treasures. In the mix are wood Danish chests, a vintage Gucci coffee table, a West Elm couch, and a really cool 1950s "space clock" that was my dad's. Set in the Silver Lake Hills, my little home has a gorgeous western view from the kitchen, and late afternoon is what I call the "golden hour," when sun floods the kitchen and living room, perfect for a bottle of rosé or some fresh blood oranges from the garden.

Name: Danielle Moss (and Buddy)
Location: Lincoln Park; Chicago, Illinois
Size: 750 square feet
Years lived in: almost 1 year; rented

Danielle Moss leads a hectic life. As a co-founder of The Everygirl, a popular website dedicated to career-driven women, the owner of her own graphic design and photography business, and the writer behind the blog Breakfast at Toast, it's a wonder that she has time to think about interior design at all. But in just a little under a year she has managed to convert a humdrum beige apartment into an inspirational, light, and glamorous haven.