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Transforming Houses: 13 Homes Slide, Unfold, Spin & Expand

Rooms rotate, roofs open to the sky, facades slide away to reveal glass walls and interiors literally turn inside out in these 13 transforming, highly customizable home designs. Some close up ...

Rotating Rooms: Push a Button, Change Your House Layout

Maybe in the summer, you'd prefer cooler, shadier lodgings, and in the winter, you wish you could extend your living space out into the sun. The lucky people who live in the three-story Sharifi-Ha ...

Flip for Fun: 4 Clever Pool Tables that Convert & Transform

Pool is one of those great American hobbies that never seems to get old. As much as we might want to play every day, not everyone has the space to fitĀ an entire pool table into their home. These ...

Small Space Hacks: 24 Tricks for Living in Tiny Apartments

Making the most of a tiny apartment is all about smart use of space, organization and multi-purpose furniture. Here are 24 examples of clever small-space hacks that pack in a ton of function ...

IKEA 2014 Small-Space Set: 51 Designs from Cool to Kitsch

The sales pitch for this new 2014 series is compelling: 51 inexpensive designer objects made for young city dwellers, people who may be on the move more often or whose domiciles simply lack ...

Cool Million: Famous 420 Square Foot SoHo Condo for Sale

A multifunctional masterpiece built with crowd-sourced design ideas and a small-space vision by the founder of TreeHugger, this New York City apartment is now for sale for ...

Transforming Furniture: Fitting 5 Rooms into 640 Square Feet

With a mostly-open floor plan tucked into 60 square meters of space, the design challenge was to effectively fit the functionality of five rooms into the footprint of two. The De Rotterdam ...

Flexible Interiors: 13 Shape-Shifting Small Apartments

Transforming furniture and living pod systems help make the most of a small space, but when entire rooms shape-shift in unexpected ways, the results can be astonishing. These compact apartment ...

Storefront Transformer: Magic Box Reprograms Empty Space

From urban blight to versatile site, one modular cube can convert unused storefronts of New York City into flexible destinations - community workshops one day, performance spaces or pop-up shops ...

GoGo & Multiplo: Modular Building Blocks for Kids & Adults

Two very similar designs with somewhat different audiences, Multiplo emphasizes their kit-of-parts approach as a means toward making convertible adult furniture, while Gogo Blocks are presented ...

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