Cleaning your space takes a few hours instead of the entire weekend. It takes less of everything to complete your look. Also, if you don’t need it, use and AND LOVE it, it goes.īut you get to choose QUALITY over quantity. Secondly, there’s no room for clutter - a place for EVERYTHING and a habit of putting everything in its place is key. The thing with small spaces is you have to first “be content” with your square footage. After all, I’d lived in 1200 square feet just for me and I thought that was small.ģ and a half years later I’m LOVING living in a small space and we both work from home too. When I first moved in here with my husband (who pre-owned the space) I thought I’d give it 6 months and then we were MOVING to a bigger home. Many of my clients live in less than 400 square feet. In our neighborhood we have one of the more spacious homes. My condo in an old brownstone in downtown Boston is less than 800 square feet. There are small homes and then there are those of us who live in REAL SMALL homes. I love our little home and all the benefits our family have embraced. We’ll put in a brick path to the house where she can gain entrance through the french door. It will be used by our daughter and have electricity but no bathroom facility as the sewer line doesn’t reach and besides, adding a bathroom would alter our property taxes ($$$). My husband is building a 10×10 shop and once he’s done with that we’ll begin the process of building a 12×16 cottage, 20 feet from our home. Long since being used, our daughter’s wooden swingset was made into three arbors which gain entrance into a new part of our garden rooms. The once empty, all to basic, ho-hum and otherwise boring lot has been transformed into one of garden room vignettes separated by arbors, gates, flowering shrubs and vines. Empty spaces were reworked by my able husband to provide practical space for storage and stereo needs. Our home’s interior has been remodeled here and there to meet our needs and style. We ‘gave up’ 1000 sf and furniture but we gained a sweet life. Notice the change from house to home? Since entering in to ‘cottage’ living we’ve become much more creative, simplified and choosy in our belongings. We went from a 2400 sf house to a 1400 sf home. The Best Furniture for Small Spaces (my guide on eBay) What are some of your favorite small house tricks for making it live large? Do you live in a small house? Do you prefer small houses or big houses? Vault a ceiling to make a room more spacious and dramatic. If you are so fortunate as to be able to remodel a bathroom,Ĭlear shower doors can double the visual room sizeĬreate double-duty rooms that pack a lot of function into a small space. Much space you can find that is going to waste.īuilt ins under the stair case make great use of space. The dining room instead of a closed off space.
Simply removing some non-load bearing walls can really open things up. Many old houses feel a bit boxy and closed in. Visually your space will expand even on a dreary day.
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Install windows and doors to the outside. Old houses and small houses always seem to be lacking in storage.īy building in drawers and cabinets, you canĬreate a lot more function in a small space.
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Was so much more charming than a worn patch of grass. It doubled our living space in mild weather and Shades or curtains to these doors you can have an instantly private guest roomīy night and a brighter more open house by day.Ĭreate a courtyard patio. In this case, by simply adding some roller While this is obviously a larger room, bumped out windowsįor much less than adding on an entire room,Īdd interior glass doors for charm and to bring light and It reminded me of how much fun I had dreaming of the possibilities! So, here are 10 of my favorite BIG ideas for small houses: I was extra inspired to see some of my favorite small house ideas online at This Old House. While I have lived in a really big house for the past five years, I am ready to sell it and get back to small house living. I had so much fun thinking about different ways I could improve the layout or overall feel without buying a bigger house! Confession time. I loved dreaming up ideas for my little house that would solve all of its problems but retain its charm. I was very content with our small house, but I wanted it to live larger and function better. While living in our small house, I spent many happy hours contemplating the various ways I could open up walls, add windows, bump things out and maximize storage space. I have always adored small houses with fairy tale doors and pointy roofs.
It was the first house we bought when we were young marrieds. I miss it so much, I wish I could get it back. My husband and I used to live in a house that looked very similar to this (note: that photo is not of my house).
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