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Category: Tiny Homes and Micro-Housing
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A Modernist’s Dream on Copenhagen’s Harbor
A couple hired an architect with experience designing floating homes, after a decade of downsizing on dry land.
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In Japan, Designers Fit Big Ideas Into Tiny Homes
Some newer houses around the country are barely wider than a common family car.
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A Compact Weekend House Filled With Comfort
A couple bought a second home with friends, and then decided that being neighbors would be much more fun.
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Tiny, Colorful London Apartment Feels Larger Than Life in 430 Square Feet
A tiny apartment in London shows that you don’t have to paint everything white to make a space feel larger than life.
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He Quit His Job and Bought a Trailer for a Nomadic Life
The customized home has a propane range, an incinerating toilet and movable solar panels (for off-the-grid travel). Now the only question is where to go next.
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Two Architects Designed a Tiny Apartment in Rotterdam That’s Only 74 Square Feet
Two architects in the Netherlands made the most of the tiniest of spaces, “maximizing absolutely everything.”
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The Pleasures of a One-Bedroom Cabin in the Mountains of Washington
“It’s probably the best place I’ve ever lived,” said the owner of a little house in the mountainous Methow Valley of Washington.
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Winka Dubbeldam Creates a Minimalist House With a Maximalist Sense of Drama
The architect Winka Dubbeldam’s renovation of a nondescript 800-square-foot building resulted in a minimalist house with a maximalist sense of drama.
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He Bought a 1953 Trailer on Impulse. Here’s How He Renovated It.
The renovation that followed turned his backyard into an upscale version of a campground — complete with a marble shower in the trees.
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They Found a Tiny Home in the Catskills: an Original Bolt-Together House
The tiny cabin, one of the few extant examples of a popular 1970s design, had no heat or toilet. But it was theirs for $65,000.
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In North Carolina, a Tiny Home for $365 a Month Comes With a Hot Tub
After a lifetime of seeking out tiny spaces, she finally found a keeper: a former barbershop in an old mill village in North Carolina.