Design your life to include more money, health and happiness with less stuff, space and energy.
If you’re even remotely a techie, you’re aware that the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas this week. The TVs, game consoles, phones, tablets, and phablets (no, we’re not making that up) of tomorrow are there on display.
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You’d think that the most positive people on earth would live in nations where most people had enough money to provide for basic needs and a bit more, whose governments provide good social services, whose citizens enjoy long life expectancy.
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Somehow doing a post on transforming design or architecture seems a bit beside the point in light of hurricane Sandy, whose impact has been staring us in the face for the last few days. Heck, the LifeEdited apartment was right.
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A recent article in Canada’s Globe and Mail suggests North Americans are increasingly going on never-ending online searches for the perfect bedroom mirror and losing sleep over the colour of front doors. In other words, they are décor-obsessed. This phenomenon, they believe,.
Read More »Face it, consciously or not, many of us think that more money and stuff will make us happy. We want more money so we can get that iPhone5 or the Kindle Paperwhite or super cool off-grid tiny house or whatever..
Read More »When the recession hit in 2008, the restaurant Hari and Karl Berzins started went under. A year later, they were forced to sell their 3 bedroom, 1500 sq ft house. They were broke, raising a couple kids and forced to take.
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We talk a lot about living a life focused less on stuff and space and more on relationships and other things that truly make us happy. The epoch in most of our lives that best embodies that way of life.
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Self-described vagabond and minimalist Andrew Hyde travels the world, writes, does graphic design, starts companies and owns 39 things–a list that includes everything from toothbrushes to a car. Most items are things like shirts, a computer, phone and some camping.
Read More »In this popular clip from the Conan O’Brian show, comedian Louis CK questions whether the “amazing” items that are designed to make our lives happier are doing that at all. We’re no Luddites at LifeEdited. We love computers, eReaders and.
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Beyond great architecture and multi-functional product design, LifeEdited is about living simple, happy lives. The architecture, products and behaviors we promote are in service of that goal. We think this list from the Health Realizations newsletter provides a nice starting point for simplifying.
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