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World’s Skinniest House Is Less Than Four Feet Wide

1:30 pm in architects, less is more, living with less by TreeHugger

skinny house poland photo Images credit Centrala via Archdaily Aristotle said "No great genius was without a mixture of insanity." Marcel Proust wrote "Everything great in the world is created by neurotics. They have composed our masterpieces, but we don't consider what they have cost their creators in sleepless nights, and worst of all, fear of death." Perhaps that's why Jakub Szczęsny designed this hermitage, this "studio for invited guests - young creators and intellectualists from all over the world."- it will drive them completely crazy....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Space Station Architect Designs Out Of This World Trailer

10:55 am in less is more, lifeedited, living with less, transformer furniture by TreeHugger

cricket trailer with designer photo Images credit Cricket Architect and designer Garrett Finney always loved small spaces, and moved to Houston to work on the habitation module (where the astronauts live) of the International Space Station. Wanting to camp with his kids in a little more comfort than a tent, he combined his "NASA experience with his love of the earth" to design the Cricket, "an innovative lightweight, compact, and flexible small environment in which to travel and explore the world we live in."...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Plywood Designs from ’60s Have Lessons For Today

9:47 am in less is more, living with less, wayback machine by TreeHugger

plywood house designs from 1960 modern image BoingBoing points to a 1960 publication from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Second Homes for Leisure Living, calling it " a rather glorious bit of propaganda for super-modernist plywood living." But it is a lot more than that. It is another world....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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SwissRoomBox Is The Ultimate Portable Modular Living System

12:48 pm in designers, less is more, living with less, switzerland by TreeHugger

swissboombox mobile camping image images Credit SwissBoomBox We love designs for small spaces; that is why TreeHugger shows so many ideas for camping and trailers. We have shown hundreds of them, but the SwissRoomBox is possibly the coolest living-with-less idea since the Casulo apartment-in-a-box. It was just furniture; this is everything you need to cook, clean, wash and live, all out of the boot of your little Euro-wagon. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Picture Is Worth…Broccoli House

5:01 pm in less is more, living with less, tree house by TreeHugger

brock davis broccoli house image Via BoingBoing: Image credit Brock Davis, who writes: "I couldn't build a tree house for my son, so I built him a broccoli house instead." Now that's green, minimalist, and another TreeHugger tree house. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stunning Writer’s Studio By John Bertram Squeezes So Much Into 200 Square Feet

9:26 am in architects, herman miller, less is more, living with less by TreeHugger

bertram1.jpg From our friends at Herman Miller Lifework Architect John Bertrammoved to Los Angeles in 1997 and worked with Marmol Radziner on the restoration and remodeling of Neutra's Brown House. He founded his own studio in 1999 and Eliot Mitchell joined in 2004. Together they put their particularly warm stamp on modern architecture. Here we take a look at a writer's studio they designed in the hills behind Los Angeles' Griffith Park....Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Sleep Anywhere, Anytime With The Ostrich

9:56 am in bedroom, designers, living with less, spain by TreeHugger

kawamura-ganjavian_OSTRICH-002.jpg Photos credit Alfonso Herranz with permission from kawamura-ganjavian Bucky Fuller used to practice Dymaxion Sleeping, where he claimed that he only slept 30 minutes every six hours. He had to give it up, according to Wikipedia, " because his schedule conflicted with that of his business associates, who insisted on sleeping like other men." Perhaps he should have designed something like the Ostrich from Spanish Architects Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Get Rapture Ready With Emergency Kits And Shelters

11:08 am in humor, living with less, Take Action by TreeHugger

raputre-ready.jpg For those of us who do not get lifted up to heaven tomorrow, we evidently face six months of hell on earth, with earthquakes, volcanos and walking dead shaken out of their graves. The US Government's Center for Disease Control and Prevention has prepared an excellent guide for dealing with the walking dead, and TreeHugger is pleased provide you with suggestions for the other crises. Clothing will not be a problem, since there will be all those empty shoes and outfits lying all over from those lifted up, but everything else might be. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Since When Did A 4,000 Square Foot House Get Considered Small?

10:00 am in Design & Architecture, florida, less is more, living with less by TreeHugger

spicebay perrone house image Image Credit Perrone Construction @aarieff tweets:
RT@builderonline Florida luxury builder finds success in small packages w/ 14-unit development http://go.hw.net/bxoxr 4000 sq ft is "small"?
Good question! And the answer is, only in America, where there are two Great Recessions going on, the one where people lose their jobs and houses, and the one of the very rich, who still want " inlaid floors, tongue-and-groove ceilings, solid-core doors, and vestibules," but maybe, well, in keeping with the times, a little bit less of them. Instead of mansions, they want "jewel boxes." ...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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