Athens tiny flat expands with built-in furniture & garden by Kirsten Dirksen on January 14, 2013 Werner Maritsas is an Athens-based designer who used built-in furniture (kitchen, desk and storage), plus choreographed LED lighting and an …
Small art studio as DIY unfolding home for family of 4 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2012 For 12 years Omar worked in publicity and set design, but when his first son was born he left it …
6 rooms into 1: morphing apartment packs 1100 sq ft into 420 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 3, 2012 When we first met Graham Hill- founder of treehugger.com- in 2010, he had just bought two tiny apartments in a …
NYC Swiss Army knife apartment’s walls open, fold & slide by Kirsten Dirksen on November 16, 2012 Rosa and Robert Garneau’s Chelsea apartment is small- just 550 square feet of usable space with a bedroom just 8 …
School bus becomes off-grid, transformable, tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on July 30, 2012 As a teenager, Richard dreamed of making a home out of a vehicle. Over a decade later, he met Rachel …
Tiny matchbox apartment hides closet & bathtub in drawers by Kirsten Dirksen on July 16, 2012 Micro-apartments are common in historically dense cities like Paris and Barcelona, but architect Valentina Maini wasn’t interested in typical small …
Zen apartment has shower roof opening, moving paper-walls by Kirsten Dirksen on June 18, 2012 Rui Miguel and Sonia Lopez both work in confined office buildings so they wanted a home with plenty of outdoor …
Space-flowing apartment: walk-thru shower & fridge-in-drawer by Kirsten Dirksen on May 14, 2012 John MacPeek has fond memories of living out of a suitcase when he first moved to Europe over 2 decades …
Tiny Origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms by Kirsten Dirksen on November 6, 2011 In 2005, third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider bought an apartment in Manhattan as big as he could afford. He paid $235,000 for …
Microbuilder on freedom of tiny homes: few codes, no loans by Kirsten Dirksen on October 3, 2011 Derek “Deek” Diedricksen’s backyard is filled with- what to the untrained eye- might appear children’s forts, but these tiny dwellings …
