Small Space Living Blog
Living Large With Less
Eight Steps to a Clutter Free Life
Lessons from a Tiny House Guru By Patrick Clark People often ask me how I got myself to fit into a 184 square foot tiny house (8’ x 23’). The answer is, by changing my paradigm about how I think about space, stuff and redefining what quality of life means to me. It...
No Space To Waste: Floor Sleeping As A Small Space Design Solution
The bed's primary purpose is to serve an ESSENTIAL BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION which will influence our failure or success and our health and well being and how long we live and our quality of life.Many people take the bed for granted, seeing it mostly as an object....
The Lean Green Dwelling: Ten Solutions for Downscaling
To most of us, a small dwelling normally brings up negative images such as: compromise, cramped, ghetto, low income, anti-social, and utilitarian. Isn’t this the land of the free, where bigger is better? The current offerings on the market for space-saving furniture...
The Paradox Of Small – Simplicity And Minimalism In The Bedroom
When I was in highschool I was inspired by Henry David Thoreau who lived in a 10'x10' cabin as an experiment in self awareness and personal independence from herd mentality. Ever since, I had the ideal that living in a small space would be beautiful and simple. A...
How We Learned To Live In And Love A Tiny House
Twenty years ago I set out to build a house. I wanted a house that was a sanctuary, soothing, and interactive, that reflected serenity, open space, simplicity, and looked somehow more vernacular than modern. But vernacular to what? Perhaps vernacular to any culture...