This futuristic apartment transforms five rooms into one
YO! Home is a modern convertible apartment, designed to compact a luxury apartment into a 40-square-meter space.It's the newest venture from YOTEL founder Simon Woodroffe and features a bed that...
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As the days get shorter, many city dwellers wish they could enjoy the sunshine more, but cannot because of the small dim apartments they own. A new window design hopes to provide a new option to...
View ArticleThese tiny apartments could change New York City
New Yorker's aren't the only people out there that have to cram all their worldly possessions into tiny living spaces, but a new type of construction is creating small spaces that make a big impact....
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Inside NYC's first 'micro apartment' building, where 60,000 people have...
If you thought New York apartments were tiny before, you haven't seen anything yet. New York City's first "micro apartments" development — known as Carmel Place — is set to open in February, according...
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A pair of Harvard students have designed 160-square-foot 'tiny houses' that...
Sometimes vacations are more trouble than they're worth. You spend a lot of money, travel far, and leave stressed.Getaway, a hospitality startup launched in the Harvard Innovation Lab, shakes up that...
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One couple quit their jobs to build a new life traveling the US in a...
In October 2014, Kelly Tousley and Curtiss O'Rorke Stedman vowed to quit their jobs, leave their home base in Juneau, Alaska, and see the US by "paying gas, not rent."The couple bought a...
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3 small space tricks we learned from touring New York City's newest micro...
Whether inspired by tiny houses or Marie Kondo's compassionate purging, streamlined, small space living seemed to be all the rage last year. And with the unveiling of a sample apartment at the...
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Tiny homes could help solve San Francisco's housing crisis — except for one...
Chelsea Rustrum can picture her future tiny house village like she's looking at a postcard.Located within commuting distance of San Francisco, it has 10 to 20 homes on wheels nestled in the grass. They...
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This is what it's really like to live and travel in a tiny house
If you haven't come across a tiny home TV show or Buzzfeed article yet, let me be the first to introduce you to the concept of "tiny living." It's a minimalist lifestyle that's resonating with multiple...
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This college student decided to build a $15,000 tiny home instead of live in...
Before he enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, design major Joel Weber took one look at the rising cost of living for a struggling college student and knew dorm life wasn't for him.A room in...
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This tiny house hotel is the future of affordable vacations
Adventurous tourists and prospective homeowners alike come to the first tiny house hotel — located in Portland, Oregon— to experience living small.Founded in 2013, Caravan is unlike any hotel we've...
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From living in a van to commuting 700 miles: 12 people who go to extreme...
Housing — whether it's renting an apartment in a major city, living in student dorms, or financing a home — tends to be a big money suck.But it doesn't have to be.From living in company parking lots to...
View ArticleThese Harvard-designed tiny homes are the future of weekend getaways
A group of grad students from Harvard's Innovation Lab have come up with a start-up to help people unplug from the daily grind. Getaway builds and rents tiny homes that they place in the Massachusetts...
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2 brothers ditched the desk job life to travel to all 50 US states in an...
On January 1, 2016, brothers Justin and Adam Fricke left their home base in Orlando, Florida — and any semblance of the traditional career path — for an 82-square foot sprinter van and a year of...
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10 small space hacks every apartment dweller should know
Whether you live in a five-bedroom spread in the 'burbs, or a tiny fifth-floor walk-up in the city, no one could argue with a few pointers on how to best utilize the space in which we live. Here, we've...
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Beautiful, rustic treehouse in a pricy Connecticut town makes a case for tiny...
A truly livable treehouse is hard to find, but this home in Weston, Connecticut, comes very close.The $550,000 home stands on stilts and when you’re inside, it feels as though you’re up in the trees....
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The 10 best tiny homes you can rent on Airbnb
Small living is not for everyone. But if you've always been curious about what it would be like to stay in a tiny home, there's always Airbnb.Tech Insider asked Airbnb for a round-up of the...
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2 brothers traded the desk job life for a year of travel across all 50 US...
It didn't take the Fricke brothers long to realize cubicle life wasn't for them."We're two Floridian brothers fighting society's natural pull to the post-college desk life,"they write on their blog....
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This couple lived in an RV in Google's parking lot for 2 years and saved 80%...
One Google employee brings new meaning to the term "company man": For nearly two years, he and his wife lived in a small RV in the parking lot of the tech giant's Mountain View, California,...
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This couple ditched their house for a van, but they had no idea what they...
If you search the popular hashtag #vanlife on Instagram, you’d think that living out of your car was a sepia-hued, glamorous dream. But as you’ve probably learned by now, Instagram only showcases what...
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