The Latest

Name: Taylor, a husband named Ross, a cat named Simba, a dog named Chili, and a baby named Seven. Location: Wilmington, North Carolina Size: 2,500 square feet Years lived in: 2 years, owned My name is Taylor and I own a greeting card company named Tay Ham. I live in my dream house with my husband Ross (who owns a tech company called Connected Investors) and our little baby girl, Seven, who will be a year old this June.

Name: Jessie Ruane, boyfriend Ryan, and Dusty the pup Location: Prospect Heights — Brooklyn, NY Size: 1000 square feet Years lived in: 1 year, renting I share my Prospect Heights loft with my boyfriend, Ryan and our puppy, Dusty (@simply.dusty). When we moved in, we quickly realized filling a 1,000 square foot (estimated) loft was going to be expensive. Since I don’t have the luxury of filling my apartment with West Elm (ahh I wish!) I started researching elsewhere.

Name: Melanie Kiernicki, Husband Kevin, daughters Penny and Lucy (ages 3 and 4) 1 dog, 2 cats Location: Park Circle neighborhood — North Charleston, South Carolina Size: 1,450 square feet Years lived in: 1 year, owned Melanie, a stay-at-home mom and part-time freelance interior decorator, runs the blog “The Penny & The Pearl.

Name: Abeer and Aetesam, with their two sons, Hamza and Azaan Location: Donvale — Melbourne, Victoria Size: 1,600 square feet Years Lived In: 1 year, renting Having moved from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia and most recently Melbourne, this is a family on the go. Abeer, a photographer/blogger and her engineer husband, Aetesam, started renting this bungalow in the suburbs of Melbourne a year ago, and have lovingly turned it into a home for them and their two little boys since.

Name: Melissa Smrekar and a Maine Coon rescue cat named Gwynnie Location: Park Cities — Dallas, Texas Size: 1,200 square feet Years lived in: 8 months, renting A fourth-generation Dallasite, the rest of my family now lives on our working ranch in the Texas Hill Country. Everything in the house is brown. My city mouse apartment, then, is the complete opposite. It’s quirky, colorful and bold, with no apologies for its femininity.

Name: Brittaney Elise Minton Location: Manhattan, New York Size: 900 square feet Years lived in: Almost 1 year, renting The celebrity interior designer and lifestyle expert who launched BE by Brittaney Elise Minton knows how to design a space that wows. She’s designed several of the new Bellami Beauty Bars and the Calabasas residence of Bellami Hair’s founder, Nikki Eslami (a house which was once owned by Kylie Jenner!

Interior designer and stylist Elaine Burns has taken a small studio apartment and turned it into a cozy, functional home.

Name: Ly Nguyen and her boyfriend Location: Amsterdam, Zuid Size: 850 square feet Years lived in: 5 months, owned This is the first house that I bought and actually live in it so I wanted to make it as cozy and as personal as possible. I travel a bit for work so when I return to Amsterdam, I want to be in a quiet area but still within 10-15 minutes cycling from good restaurants and social happenings. This house checked all the boxes.

"I realized that the time and emotional energy devoted to physical things could be better spent elsewhere. This was the spark that led me to my tiny home lifestyle."

This couple's style is: "Cozy log cabin falls in love with a vintage schoolhouse and has a baby that sells books and ephemera and cameras and taxidermy."

Name: Helen Bayley and husband Chris Bayley. Daughters Charlotte (9), Annabelle (7), and Imogen (6). Location: Queensland, Australia Years lived in: 11 years, owned Helen Bayley knows how to create happiness with color. In 2013 she launched Lovestar, a company that vibrantly re-imagines the old-fashioned ceramic wall vase out of modern materials like Lucite. Helen and her husband handcraft their products in their studio in Brisbane, and the vases have been a huge hit since day one.

Name: Lorraine Loots and Mark De Menezes and their two-year-old son, Felix Location: Observatory — Cape Town, South Africa Size: 2,153 square feet Years lived in: 4 years, owned Photographed next to small objects to show their scale—matchsticks, earbuds, jelly beans—Lorraine‘s teeny art pieces are detailed delights.

This warm, organic Tudor-style house will make you want to move to New Zealand immediately.