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- Name:
- Silvana
- Location:
- Canneto Pavese Italy
- Square Feet:
- 165
- Division:
- International
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- Light, colors, and atmosphere
Small Cool just keeps on getting better as more tiny and triumphant entries get into the mix. With a few days of posting still to come, here are some new don't-miss spaces from the past week. Click through to check them out and don't forget to "favorite" any and all entries that you enjoy. The more entries you like, the merrier - voting is still active and open for all...
- Name:
- Daniel
- Location:
- New York, NY
- Square Feet:
- 324
- Division:
- Teeny-Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- I like the high ceiling and the full window overlooking a small balcony that give sense of more space to the apartment, and an incredible natural lighting.
This is the first apartment that I live in alone, and I like that I can experiment and find something that can represent my style, so I am adding or changing new stuff every time, I know I will stop (I hope so) but for now I am having fun.
- Name:
- Hani & Andrew
- Location:
- New York, NY
- Square Feet:
- 440
- Division:
- Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- We love the organic modern feel and our art, including a prized secret ceramic glaze recipe from our dear friends at KleinReid. The built-in shelving connects to two distinct living areas -- we especially love the vintage jar collection that we use for our pantry to elegantly extend the tiny kitchen into the dining area while the opposite wall is filled with books and functional items and connects into the living area. For dense city living, we're also lucky to have an incredible view of a brick wall covered in Boston ivy that changes fiery red in the autumn, instead of facing another apartment window or an alley. We love the live "tree-light art" that we wake up to in the morning on the balcony doors, and enjoy our six distinct living spaces all within one rectangular room: dining room, living room, bedroom, kitchen bar and workspace, a cozy reading chair, and a balcony cafe.
- Name:
- Garrett
- Location:
- New York, NY
- Square Feet:
- 340
- Division:
- Teeny-Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- I love how I can clean the whole apartment in a few hours. Everything has a place, and everything is in reach. It feels really manageable for a young person living in the city. I get to see and use everything that I love every day; nothing is shut away in an unused space.
- Name:
- Julia
- Location:
- Philadelphia, PA
- Square Feet:
- 550
- Division:
- Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- My home is the perfect size for a live/work, solo artist space. I have designed it such that I wake up surrounded by my imagery and mind-escapes that motivate the creative process. I wake up, make coffee, tea, do yoga, and set to work at the long work tables against the window. In the evening I can entertain friends and show curators, interior designers, and art directors my work in my small kitchen area.
I love that I can only collect and house what is most necessary -- nothing beyond the art, the basics, and the small items I have accumulated through my travels and from friends that mean the most.
- Name:
- Leah
- Location:
- San Francisco, CA
- Square Feet:
- 400
- Division:
- Teeny-Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- I have never before loved a place I've lived in like I love this apartment. I wanted to create a space that was delightful, organized, and expressive of who I am. I draw comics, and designed my home to feel like i was in my own strip. The bedroom designed to be a Night scene, with a light up moon, and the living room a day scene, with sky, green-grass carpet, and cloud lamps. I wanted to to use almost exclusively reused items/material in my home instead of buying new mass produced items. I asked designer and furniture builder Aaron Kllc to help me furnish and decorate. The bed, hutch, and dining table were all made out of reclaimed wood. The dining table was made out of an old drafting table and a vintage piece of burl wood.
- Name:
- Laura
- Location:
- New York, NY
- Square Feet:
- 450
- Division:
- Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- It’s efficient! We’ve squeezed two adults and a small dog into our tiny apartment. The separation of space with the upstairs and downstairs is what makes the space work for us. The two separate floors (and two 3-piece bathrooms!) make our apartment “live” like it’s much larger than 450 square feet; they give us a nice level of privacy when we’re there together as well as when we have overnight guests from time to time. Even though our space is small, we can host cocktail parties for eight downstairs in the living area or dinner parties for five upstairs in the kitchen/dining room. Fortunately, most of our favorite used pieces of furniture from Washington, D.C. and Chicago were small and able to fit. We’ve been able to add a few select pieces from New York, too, such as the small cabinet in the kitchen that Nick found on the curb shortly after we moved in.
- Name:
- Jessica
- Location:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Square Feet:
- 410
- Division:
- Tiny
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- It encourages me to think about what I truly value, to craft a space that serves my needs and to constantly reevaluate what is necessary and useful and what is getting in the way. Also, the small rooms are quicker to paint, so I get to experiment a lot with color.
- Name:
- Dindi
- Location:
- São Paulo Brasil
- Square Feet:
- 248
- Division:
- International
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- The apartment in which I live remained closed for more than 10 years before I moved in. That's the reason why it kept it's original architectural and coating features. I love all its details.
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