After yesterday’s post on IKEA homes, we learned that single, prefab homes and small developments were not quite enough for the furniture giant: IKEA has entered the business of city-making. LandProp, IKEA’s property development arm, is developing a city called Strand.
Let’s face it, it’s hard to get away from IKEA. The big blue store is by far the world’s largest furniture retailer and there are few homes that escape its cleanly-design, wallet-friendly wares. Since the contents of our homes are.
New York City is filled with small apartments. With an average home price of nearly $1.2M, New Yorkers quickly learn how to live to with less space. But even in this squeezed city, Felice Cohen’s 90 sq ft apartment is.
It’s no secret that we advocate an urban future here at LifeEdited. With a world population topping out over 7B people, cities offer the clearest route to a bright, sustainable future. But cities are not created equally. A city’s urban.
Defying the common portrayal of trailer homes as shoddily constructed, I-hope-I-never-have-to-live-in-one-of-those kinda homes, San Francisco-based architect Christopher C Deam created the Breckenridge Perfect Cottage–a 400 sq ft home that looks like no trailer home we’ve ever seen. With floor-ceiling windows.
This short video shows the first LifeEdited apartment (LE1) go through its many iterations: from home office living room, home theater, dining room, bedroom, guest room, meditation room, kitchen and many stops in between. Completion of LE1 expected early May,.
The American citizen is not the only victim of an obesity epidemic. Since 1950, the American home has more than doubled in size, even though the number of people living in them has shrunk! And we’re packing these houses to.
When my parents were kids, their parents slept in the dining room. These were not poor people. They just figured the dining room was so seldom used, why not put it to use? Fast forward 60 years and for many.
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. –Charles Eames This cabinet with drying-rack shelves eliminates that awkward, space-hogging standalone rack that never quite fits in the sink or the counter..