(Video link here.) We were knocked out by this short wondrous film by Grace Jackson, about Jack English, a 93-year-old who lives in an isolated cabin deep in the Ventana Wilderness, California. After his wife died, he moved to the land he’d hunted on and “fell in love with” as a boy. He built a small cabin using…
Read Morehouse tour: clever expansive 240 sq ft apt ‘cabin’
Recently Dwell featured a slideshow of Brooklyn architect Tim Seggerman’s design to renovate a dismal brownstone studio with a sleeping loft. He was inspired by legendary furniture designer George Nakashima to “create an enveloping cabin of blond woods”. He managed to make a tiny 240 square foot space seem expansive by using the blond wood panels to…
Read Moretiny: a film about living small
(Video link here.) About 6 months ago, we got an email from Merete Mueller, a friend of a friend who was just finishing up a film about the Tiny House Movement. The film, “TINY: A Story About Living Small” follows Christopher Smith and my attempt to build a tiny house from scratch with no building…
Read Moremany cool ideas from LifeEdited’s small space wonder
(Video link here.) In 2010, Graham Hill, the founder of treehugger.com, bought 420 square foot apartment in a tenement building in New York City’s Soho and, over two years, turned it into a showcase for tiny living. Hill wanted a tiny space hat would expand to fulfill his wish list which included dinner parties for 12,…
Read Moredetails of minimalist’s life: jeffrey miller
We worked with Jeffrey Miller many years ago when he was prop stylist and always marveled at his wonderful eye. We also marveled at the apartment he lived in, which at the time was a tiny studio with a giant window on the lower east side of Manhattan. We loved its extreme minimalism which combined function…
Read Moresmall space wonder: 258 sq ft puzzle-box penthouse
After we posted Gary Chang’s 344 square foot Hong Kong apartment, we thought we’d pretty much seen the pinnacle of morphing possibilities for TINY. Until this morning, when we found ourselves riveted by this video of photographer Christian Schallert‘s 258 square foot Barcelona apartment (apx 11′ x 23’): a former pigeon loft re-envisioned by designer Barbara Appolloni. (Check out…
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