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Who Needs Walls? 13 Split Level Interior Layouts Maximize Small Spaces

Tall, narrow volumes and awkward stepped sites are no problem when you arrange your interior spaces in a continuous flow of open platforms without walls. These unusual split-level home designs ...

Take it From a Tiny House: 12 Smart Small Space Tricks That Really Work

You don’t have to drastically shrink your whole life to fit into a 200-square-foot space in order to learn a space-saving trick or two from the tiny house movement. Builders and carpenters see ...

Space-Saving Inspiration: 14 Gorgeous Lofts, Nooks and Smart Layouts

You never know how someone else's creative custom solution for their tiny space could influence your own projects, or just help you organize your home a little more efficiently. Get lots of ...

Built-in Bonanza: 13 Mega Apartment Makeovers Packed with Custom Features

Even the smallest, ugliest and most awkward space can become a comfortable apartment when creative custom built-ins are integrated into a brilliant renovation by a truly talented architect. ...

Portable Walk-In Closets & 14 Other Ways to Make a Studio Feel Like a Mansion

A lot of the most impressive space-saving ideas really only work for wealthier urbanite apartment owners who can simply hire a contractor to design a bunch of customized built-ins. The results - ...

Lean & Learn: Oblique Earthquake-Proof Bookshelf Doubles as a Climbing Wall

No ladders are required to get all the way to the top of this floor-to-ceiling bookshelf in a Japanese home, built into a specially designed oblique exterior wall for both easy access and ...

7 Students, 1 Tiny Apartment: Ultra-Compact Co-Living Design by Fabrica

Space and privacy are increasingly valuable commodities in cities, and many people on tight budgets find themselves in living situations that feel more than a little cramped. The average student ...

Just Pull Some Strings: 8 Easy Transforming Furniture Designs for Lazy People

When you’re lazy, even the most intuitive transforming furniture isn’t easy enough to operate unless it’s on the same level as clapping your lights on and off. Luckily for those of us who ...

Transformers: 2 Beijing Houses Packed Full of Space-Maximizing Tricks

Think you’ve seen it all when it comes to ideas for saving space in small houses and apartments? Beijing’s B.L.U.E. Architecture Studio is here to prove you wrong in the most delightful way, ...

Simply Creative Use of Space: 14 Modern Japanese House Designs

High-density neighborhoods with heavy foot traffic and tiny plots of land in Japan force architects to come up with some clever space-saving, privacy-protecting residential layouts. Strategically ...

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