Small is BIG. The cover screams SMALL SPACES on the March issue of Metropolitan Home. We received the magazine yesterday and the March issue is not referenced yet online.
While the featured homes are small for this magazine (500 square feet/700 square feet/1100 square feet)—the Met Home of the Month is so big they merely claim it is "over the national average." It has to be, as it has his/her offices and a 3-car garage!
We wish they would have fully embraced the idea of small that the cover proclaims—but the 500 square foot apartment of designer Andy Goldsborough is inspiration for ATers...
• It's nice to see mainstream print catching up with Jaime Hayon. There's been so much internet buzz and we want to learn more. This is first on our list the next time we sit down with this issue.
Hopefully March 2007 will be online soon!
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Haven't seen this issue yet, but I'll watch for it. The Canadian mag "Canadian Style at Home" also has Small Spaces emblazoned across the front of this month's issue (do they get together and pick a theme, or what?) When I saw the issue from a distance, I thought the subtitle said 500 sq. feet -- actually it's 1500 sq feet or less... 1500 sq. feet seems palatial to me, but I guess it would be small for a house ... ??? Anyway, they have some good ideas, too, if you want to see a Canadian perspective.
Ooooo! I love those tiles. A bit pricey though.
$15/sqft seems really expensive for cork tiles.
Regarding the Met Home of the month, they DO go out of their way to make a disclaimer about that residence *not* fitting the small-space criteria.
I said the same thing when I picked it up...1100 sq ft is palatial especially in major urban areas.
It would be interesting to see what they would do if they had to keep it under 500 sq ft.
I picked it up and leafed through it so maybe I need to really check it out. But I've stopped buying it. I think it was the $50,000 remodels that finally did it for me. That, and the McMansions that seem to fill it. Every place looked like you could roller-skate through it.
I had hopes that maybe with this issue being the "Small Spaces" it would be slightly more interesting and innovative, but I'll just have to carefully hoard my copies of "Apartment Life" for now.
That house is amazing - and amazingly expensive.