- Name:
- Victoria
- Location:
- Reno, NV
- Square Feet:
- 930
- Division:
- Small
- What I Love About My Small Home:
- Our home is the perfect blend of cozy and bright and has been a great joy for our growing family. Raising a kids in a small home has brought us closer together and given us the chance to be creative about how we use our space and forced us (in the best of ways) to consider the others in our choices and design.
- Biggest Challenge of Living in a Small Space
- Our biggest challenge is how to make our small home multifunctional. We spend a great deal of time at home playing with our two toddlers, but also run a business from the space and use it to entertain adult friends often. We have worked hard to make every room an equally pleasing blend of bright whimsy and classic to allow the space to transition well throughout its many daily roles. As an example, our bright yellow dinning table says, hello morning play date, just as well as it says good afternoon business meeting when adorned with flowers, and when topped with concrete candles transitions seamlessly into a dinner date with friends.
A few other helpful ways we have solved this is by moving the kids' play vertical as much as possible -- we use the wall space above their beds for large felt headboards that double as felt play boards. We also designed roll away coffee tables that are a great addition to living room play time and can be quickly rolled under the sofa when not in use.
Categories:
Style,
Main,
2012,
Small Cool,
Small Spaces
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your kids are cute, and that's a lovely picture of them, but i'd like to see the kitchen or bathroom or bedrooms, please.
I like seeing entries with carpet. I am in a rental that has carpet currently, and is not my preference - but this inspires me. Very nice. I would like to see more of the house, rather than of the kids... even though they are adorable.
Huge apartment with very little of it shown in these pictures.
I love your space! It seems warm and whimsical; a perfect family home.
I love your dining table! And those chairs!!
I certainly admire anyone who can raise two children in less than 1,000 sq. feet.
I love the dining chairs but they seem proportionally wrong for the small table and, to me, the chandelier is too big. Can't tell much else by the photos.
@ELL.UU I think that picture of the (very cute) kids is also a picture of the roll-away coffee table mentioned (love that idea by the way, and am glad to see a picture of it)
If that's a coffee table, it's really,really,low!
Where are the curtains in the living room from?
I love the use of color and I'm so jealous of your couch! Do you know the yellow paint color on your dining room table? I'm trying to find the right shade of yellow for my desk and it's driving me crazy!
Clever use of space and "finds"
Mimi
I love the fireplace photo
I really like your entry. I would have loved to have seen more of the children's bedroom. I'm working on a bedroom for my 7 yo daughter and 5yo son, so I jump at any boy/girl shared bedroom that pops up.