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March 21, 2007

Livin’ Small in the Big City

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets — Laura Moncur @ 8:14 am

A house for a family of five sits on 320 square feet.This house holds a family of five, but its footprint is a mere 320 square feet. Ever since Mike and I moved from a 3500 square-foot house in the suburbs to a 820 square-foot house in a different suburb, I have been obsessed with making things work in a small space. Here is an article about how it is done in Japan:

Sadly, the article concentrates on how much the homes cost to build instead of how you can cram five people into such a small space and still make it work. Is it enforced simplicity? Is it ultra-efficiency? How do they do it? That’s what I want to know. I wanted to see floor plans and pictures of their storage areas, not their staircases.

This article is more helpful:

I still would like to see pictures and specific storage ideas.

Via: random($foo)

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