This text provides a comprehensive guide on designing a sustainable home, emphasizing the importance of energy efficiency and sustainable design. It emphasizes the importance of choosing the right location, incorporating recycled materials, using locally sourced building materials, and considering passive design. The design phase is crucial for making significant impacts on energy efficiency.
The text also discusses the benefits of using the sun, investing in storage, and dividing the space into functional homes. It also highlights the importance of using multifunctional spaces to optimize square footage and the use of furniture with multiple uses. The text also discusses the importance of implementing innovative and space-saving storage solutions and leveraging scale and proportion to visually expand the space.
Efficient floor plans can reduce the size of a home, leading to cost savings in construction, energy, and maintenance costs. The best space-efficient house floor plans include smart floor plans, versatile furniture, and minimizing hallways. Modern house design offers nine space-saving tips, including double height spaces, setback areas, open floor concepts, staircases, partition walls, and utilizing outdoor space.
The text concludes by suggesting that these small home ideas will simplify the personal design process, from choosing furniture pieces with slender profiles and streamlined designs to maximizing outdoor space. By following these principles, homeowners can create a comfortable and durable home that doesn’t heat up the climate.
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My grandparents bought their home in 1959. They picked out everything for it. They had a set of drawers built into the stairs in their basement. The drawers were even graduated to fill the space (the top shelf was the smallest, bottom is the longest). Their kitchen even had built-in in floor to ceiling storage pantries. Also, they had kitchen cabinets that had pull out shelves for her pots and pans.
The ground fridge is a great idea! The only issue, the temp is too warm to safely chill food. The temp needs to be under 41F in order to keep your food safe and last longer. There is a thing called the TDZ (Temperature Danger Zone) and that is between 41F-135F. If food is stored in that zone, it is prone to bacteria growth.
When I was a kid growing up in a tiny 5 flight walk-up one bedroom apartment, my mom had to think outside the box to make it livable for her, me and my little brother. She slept in the living room, gave me the tiny bedroom, and had a carpenter friend build a steps unit with storage inside each step. Then she bought a matching pair of book shelves, put the metal lid that originally covered the bathtub (in the kitchen) over the top of the facing bookshelves to hold a small mattress. The bookshelves thus formed a tiny room, complete with a desk and lamp, and the steps enabled him to climb up to the bed on top. Pretty ingenious on a tight budget!
Great article. Definitely gonna save it. There are so many awesome ideas (that I wish I would have thought of first). I want them all, lol. I appreciate the many pictures, articles, & thorough descriptions of each one. I really like that they are all actually useable & not just something to take up extra space & throw away money on. Speaking of money, my favorite part of the article is that you included prices! While some products are affordable & others are worth saving for, they were almost all things that regular folk can not only dream of but actually obtain to make their house into the home they dream of! Keep up the good work! We’re looking forward to more AMAZING articles to come…
Very small bathroom. So small only a small child can use the bath. To store more things on the shelving unit between the bath and door. Small folderable boxes. Stopped things falling off the shelf and into the bath while the shower is on or on the floor. Plus more fitted on the shelf next to the boxes tiding up the bathroom a bit. And a corner shelf that sticks to the tiles. Saved money on flannels as they can dry over the bath meaning less go moldy due to damp. Door frames and picture rails for drying clothes. Fairy lights under the stairs railing. Was a god send when there was a power cut but a mirror top and bottom of the stairs and it lit up the hall enough of the living room to turn the ones on above the fire place mirror. Chargeable lamp that attached to the head board
3:55 If That’s NOT the Epitome Of The Way a Psychopathic Hater of Elderly People Thinks, I Simply Cannot Imagine What Else IS!!! I Would Title It: “The Granny Killer”! Also Known As: “The Toddler Tumbler”! And: “The Drunken Daddy Disabler”! WARNING! These Stairs NOT Intended to be Used By, The Elderly, Small Children, Visually Impaired, In The Dark, Or By Intelligent Sensible Persons! Do Not Use This Product While Wearing High Heels, Breast Feeding, Texting Or Intoxicated!
Another cracking article full of awesome ideas there Be Amazed 😊💖 I already have two of these ideas and I could Really use that underfloor wine cellar.. Not for wine though but for craft supplies, there never is enough space for those 😂😂😂 I already have four swing out shelves in my kitchen cupboards, I have CTD so limited reach so they really help with that but they’re buggers if somethings been put in wrong as saucepans etc can fall off and jam the space required to swing out 🙄😕 The other thing I have is a cheap version of the stick on tiles. This place didn’t have a fireplace and for me a hearth is the focal point and a comforting gathering place within a home. I have an electric stove fire, painted up a wooden mantlepiece from ebay then used Moroccan style tile stickers to create a back. It looks great and if I ever get bored of them, I can swap them out for about a tenner. I love the idea of things within a household having such different multiple uses, I like tiny houses articles too and they have a Lot of awesome practical storage designs ❤
My solution for shoes: Put the 2 pairs I have in the closet floor. I can’t believe anybody would need to own that many shoes. Many of those stair designs are not going to last long. Would you really want to store valuables in something that you walk on every day? Some of them could work, like the one on the side in the wall, but not the drawers being directly in the steps. The foldable stairs probably have a very short shelf life.
Although it isn’t completely hollow, I have a chair that has storage built in. I used to have a couch that matched and each seat cushion was actually a lid that was hinged with storage below. It was a great place to store extra blankets and pillows, and I used the chair one to store toys for the grandkids so they were out of sight when the kids weren’t here but easy to get out if they were. I have a larger sectional couch now and the chair is getting old and no longer matches but I might try to find a cover for it as it is so handy to have!!
sorry but most of these are so dumb. 1 piece of furniture should serve only 1 function. specially if you need to choose between 1 mode or the other. for example the clothe hanger with a picture: you cant have both at the same time. if you want to hang clothes, you’re not gonna use the picture, why even have it in the first place. and sliding floors or walls are just a waste of time, it’s better to just have them in the best position and not move them and not deal with them possibily breaking or being hard to clean.
Ever since I saw one of these at a Home Show many years ago, I have been amazed by The Hidden Bed made in Mt. Angel, Oregon. When you think of any kids room, two pieces of furniture take up all the space, the bed, and the desk with your computer on it. Well what if you could have a device that was both? Viola, the Hidden Bed! I really wish I had seen this nifty Item when my kids were little. They also have Murphy style beds for those of you who want to have a guest room, but don’t want to have a bed taking up the whole thing. If you ever make a sequel article to this, give it a look. It definitely fits into this list. 👍
A good chunk of these are budget SAW traps. Like swimming in that pool when the deck slides over it, or your spouse hitting the button to collapse your workspace into itself while you’re in there. With my family, those collapsible staircases would always be folded into the wall when I’m needing to go downstairs.
Hello, I had one kitchen cabinet with the sliding S-shaped boards (the design was aptly called “Le Mans”, it really looked a bit like a race course), and I LOVED it and already miss it dearly, as I had to sell the house with the kitchen where it was fitted in… I can recommend the design for everybody who can afford the slightly higher than usual price, as over a long time of use it benefits your back if you do not have to crouch into dark recesses to pull out your pots and pans! Thank you for this entertaining “Wow!” post :-)))
Random power outage boredom scenario: I’ll just go take a nap, crap my bed is in the ceiling. Maybe we can go for a drive… damn it my car in the ground! I’ll go downstairs and read a book with the flashlight conveniently stored in my hollow chair. Head towards the stairs then fall from the second floor to the main floor, since my kids are hilarious and decided to fold the space saving staircase to lock me on the second floor… before the power went out and they went to play with the kids next door.
Oh my goodness, I am now obsessed with that aquarium headboard! I use both my fish tanks as nightlights all the time! They are gorgeous, and I would have one or two built into every room if I could. If you love gardening and houseplants, you use the water to water them and I even have Pothos growing out of my tank and up my stairwell. <3
can’t see those shoe racks holding shoes and boots over size 10…. Somehow I wouldn’t want to mount a fire bowl on the side of my house…. nice to look at the fancy fish tanks… but how do you keep them clean??? that underground car storage must cost more than the car YEA! for the corner cabinet pull out shelf, about time. I think a lot of those space save/change stuff would be more than the apartment rent, you could just afford a bigger place. The other limit to the bedroom box is age, older people won’t be climbing those stairs to get in and out of bed.
50°F is NOT a refrigerator it’s a cold room….. basically a root cellar. Temperatures at or above 45°F will not keep food cold enough to be considered refrigerated. A fridge temperature should be between 33°F & 44° F to keep food from growing harmful bacteria and mold. But not any lower since that can cause food to partially freeze, causing large ice crystals to form which quickly causes freezer burn. When you freeze food, freeze it at an extremely LOW temperature….. between 0°F & -10°F. The colder the temperature, the quicker food freezes, the quicker food freezes the smaller the ice crystals, the smaller the ice crystals the less damage freezing does to the food.
what a delightful article to watch. not to actually DO something with those tipps, but looking at rich peoples brain farts for their second and third city homes is quite entertaining:) no seriously, if you live small, it almost always has “money” as the reason for it! do you seriously think, anyone in a small apartment can actually AFFORD such extravaganza? come on!
When I was a kid, I had a raised bed with storage space underneath and a lego city (that was kinda large and therefore wouldn’t have fit on ground level) on a raised plattform just slightly under the ceiling with the TV corner underneath that, with both the bed and the plattform accessible via the same ladder. Quite space efficent.
“All it takes is the push of a button….and you have a double decker parking space with a lift.” Yeah, just the push of a button, and probably 75-90K to install. That is the weird part of these designs, that the small, convertible features are often really expensive, and so a niche market for people with enough income to buy them, but not enough income or in a setting to get more space.
Most of these are impractical. For example, a deck that rolls off of a pool is kinda pointless, since you already have to have room for both in order to role the deck off of the pool. Stairs that practically scream “someone will be injured or killed here” also seem like a very bad idea. Others are just more expensive than they’re worth, like a 1500 dollar chair with very little storage space underneath.
8:08 The little fella is exquisitely animated here. I’ve yet to see a better and more hilarious anthropomorphic animation. If that’s the right term. A crate of beer to the animator behind him for the mastery of the thus far and no further school of subtly putting in the effort without it being allowed to show. Brave raggazo!
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Well hold on now, if you don’t have room to park a car you ALSO don’t have room to install a platform that can move up and down, they should take up the same amount of flat physical space on the surface. Parking two or more cars in the same space as one is a game-changer though, shoulda focused on that
Oh help me step brother i’m stuck in the stairs. Please tell me that clip was not taken from a porn film and was just promotional material of a none adult nature. Also i’ve wanted to do space safer stuff from fold a way bed to even a hammock and hammock shelving but unfortunately my place is so small that every idea i’ve come up with and more importantly are allowed to do would take up space in its none used form except the hammocks but the walls aint strong enough or that is one of the anchor walls wouldn’t be
The underground fridge wouldn’t do Northern Australia much good, it would be cooler than surface, only if you had a 3-5 meter drop into the earth first. As examples of homes built underground in northern Australia and it’s deserts have in order to be livable. I wish I had the ability to use those super steep stairs and ladders, then I could have room in this freaking house! LOL! 😊
7:06 I love this conveyor belt of ‘look what you can get now’ toys. Inspirational occasionally, at other times when we’ve moved on to the next wonder, I find that I can’t get rid of the frown suddenly there. A wall mounted barbecue? With your (Weber) one you can scoot it away to the back of the garage out of sight. This, beauty admittedly, you have to keep spotless, unless you treat it as such decent design deserves, it’s going to either be drooling grease and rainy charcoal down the wall or be the latest thing that little Jonny his head on as you leave it ‘in the open position’ to cool before cleaning. Personally, a bit of a solution in search of… Aa for the hollow chair, hmm okay. We’ve had those before, admittedly a cube box whose lid has two leaves, one for the chair back. And so on … they’re fun and just occasionally actually worth a look.
And my apartment seems so small all of the sudden. My apartment is big for it’s class, but it’s also super empty, so small and empty, mostly empty. My apartment is small for someone like me, as i’m both big, wide and tall, and to be honest, it’s too small for me personally, but i can’t afford any other apartments. There’s also the fact that my apartment is empty too. I only have what, 12 different furnitures in my apartment, and i do have room for more, which i hope i can get more soon enough. I don’t have the money, ok? I’m a Gen Z, and we can barely get a job, and we don’t earn much at all. It doesn’t matter how much we work these days, the inflation and current trends doesn’t allow us who’s still young to even earn enough, even if we lived forever. I can work for 100 trillion years and still not be able to afford to buy my o2n house
Some of these cross the line between “not worth it” and straight into “seriously stupid”. When is that painting/coat rack going to be closed? If you’ve got more than one coat, it will never be closed, and you’ll never save space, or see that painting. If you’ve only got one, then it will only be closed as you leave home, and realistically, why would you bother to close the coat rack then? You’d make more work for yourself, without benefitting from it. And frankly, if you’ve only got one coat, you’d save more space (and actually see your paintings) by putting your coat on a hook instead.
I dont get the wall painting coat rack. Arnt you just gonna always need your coats hung up? Unless you just own one coat and can put the rack away when youre wearing it. This thing is basically a coat rack always hanging off your wall. Might as well save your money and hang em off your kitchen chairs like i do.
Having experienced shared Army Accomodation shared by 4 – we had to come up with interesting ideas on how to use the back of wardrobes to have some privacy. All we had were single beds. 4 wardrobes and 4 dressers. So the wardrobes were our walls. Its amazing how you can change the space by using the back of wardrobes. When I left and moved into another open plan large room – I used the back of a large wardrobe system to separate a large open plan room to give me privacy in the bedroom area. Just a thought – once I could use paint and wallpaper I wall papered the back of a large wardrobe and added mirrors for a privacy screen.
Love everything about the Meadow house. From the colour, through the well thought out placing of every thing., to the plants which seem to be thriving so well. It is so homely and welcoming. It invites all who see it to stay a while and enjoy the peace the exudes from the walls and sit in the well placed chairs to enjoy the vista from it’s many windows. Can not get enough of you vlogs where ever they are done. Thankyou for spending the time to show us the progress and take part in this project.
Good tips and what a beautiful,comfortable home! I use a lot of the tips already, in our modestly sized home (it’s not tiny, but then we do have 4 children 😊). I do keep my kitchen counter completely empty, except when cooking. I need room to cook and our entire counter, including sink and cooker measures only 3 meters. My tip there would be to have only what you need (eg two wooden spoons, one large chef’s knife and two small knives, a garlic press…) and keep them all in a drawer under the worktop, not in containers on the worktop. We also don’t have a dishwasher. We simply use a towel to put our wet dishes on, no rack. I prefer not to store under sofas or beds, for easy cleaning, although I did make some drawers on wheels for under some of the beds, because we just need room to keep sheets and blankets. One extra tip: we have comfortable chairs for 4 people only, because we seldom all sit in the living room together. As extra seats we use folding (camping) chairs covered in quilts. They are easy to bring into the living room when we want to watch a movie together or when we have guests and take up very little room when not in use.
I recently moved from a house to a senior apartment. We had to downsize our belongings a lot – gave away – donated to our church’s thrift store or sold quite a lot.Hopefully we won’t miss those things.Our apartment feels spacious because it is not filled with clutter and now it will be my task to not let it get cluttered again. The home in this article is gorgeous.
I’m in love! Beautiful green (I think that’s called Kelly), terra cotta, oxblood. Along with plenty of warm white. And the banquette is so custom and built-in, the whole length of the walls. Beautiful! What a blessing to have this orientation as well, the light streams in! And what a pleasant surprise with the cafe-length curtains, you rarely see them, people say you need long drapes to make a room look larger. There was a movement called the ‘not-so-tiny’ house for a while.
I think I cried all the way through it I’ve dreamed about living in that house since I was 3 years old and I’m 63 now it felt like home! You’re wonderful doing all this it’s beautiful it speaks of your soul!!! I personally would have the breakfast nook go all the way around the wall. That’s something we had when I was a child. All the kids from the neighborhood just love to come and sit in the kitchen at the breakfast nook! The lamp above it was a lantern type that had a handle under it that you could grab and pull it down on a pulley system then when you were done playing cards or other games you could push it back towards the ceiling!!! We always felt like we were playing cards in a movie!! The table was not quite round not quite square but with the seating being all along the wall in a u-shape, with more than ample room, we did not need a chair in front of the table. We could always grab one from the other room if we needed it. Me personally the chair blocks the flow of the room and makes it smaller. The big Windows behind us gave us a view that let the sun in every morning. We had big soft cushions on the seat and the back and the material was something that felt like vinyl and leather mixed? My mother loved it easy cleanup!! Three boys and three girls you need a lot of cleanup! The seats were attached to the wood bench with large snaps and unbelievably they did not rip, come loose or slide around for over 12 years! That’s very amazing when I think back about it. I still dream about that breakfast nook and the peace and serenity I felt every morning Setting there, I felt special!
It’s nice to not have such close neighbors, like in the city. Your white curtains are lovely, with all of the friendly colors all around, they just light up and look relatively sheer, from here. My Grandmother’s house had the basics, in each room and here and there decorative accents. She had a little room, off of the kitchen, a pantry where things were stored, on shelves etc. right up to the high ceiling. I did not know at the time, but now I would consider it to be a luxury. Storage place anywhere, is a luxury. You’ve managed it well. I like the invisible fridge.
The content of your article was interesting but can you guess how many times the word “actually” is uttered before all was said and done? EXTREMELY ANNOYING. If producing content is something you do regularly, I urge you in the strongest terms to attempt to remove this verbal tic from your future presentations. It made it had to stick with the narrative to the end.
Word of caution. If this is your forever house, be mindful of how you will age with it and still be able to access certain areas. Anything that requires you to perform deep knee bending or step stools to reach will be extremely difficult (or impossible) at age 60+…… nothing within 2 feet of the floor or 1 foot above your head is easy for seniors. This also includes stairs of any kind or small tight space, such as tubs, landings, attics, deep closets, deep shelving, etc. These are all things I never considered either when I designed my house at 21 that now at 62 I’m having to spend a considerable amount of money redoing so I can safely continue to live in my home…..alone, if needs be.
I have a lidded compost bucket provided by our city, I use compostable ‘plastic’ bags to line it. It gets smelly fast! I don’t think I’d like your open compost bins, too much emptying and cleaning to have no smell. I have more counter space than you, but I keep it as clear as possible to give myself room to prep and cook. As lovely as it looks, for me, there is too much stuff. If I was there for a week, I’d be loading up your bench storage with all of the unnecessaries from the counters on day one, lol! 😝 If you have to move a hanging plant to open the fridge, maybe eliminate the plant. Saunder has done incredible work, it’s an amazing build. I’ve enjoyed seeing this sweet little dwelling come to fruition.
I love this cottage. Love 💚 the jade green throughout and outside too. And you designed and decorated it beautifully, perfect for the space. Would be good to create a hidden work surface for the kitchen, that pulls out from under the countertop with a leg that drops down. This way when you need more prep space, you can pull it out, then slide it away when done.
I really love your style ! I am crazy about creative art,and interior /exterior design!!! You have utilised your space well.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I would like to make a suggestion regarding the separation of your bedroom space,it s just my opinion, there are some wonderful creative room dividers etc available to give you the private space . I just think that s all that s missing. Other than that, it s perfect! Well done it s beautiful! 😘
For aging people getting down to a lower cabinet is not suitable. Where possible cabinets below the counter should be fitted with drawers or pull out shelving. This is how my wife and I fitted out our 550 sqft coop apartment. The kitchen is just 7’9″ x 7’9″, no room for eat in. We have extra blankets in a roll around foot stool. Our bed folds up into a cabinet (Murphy bed style) with side cabinets that are very functional.
Idea I have roll out bar that can go over the sink. It is temporary and roll out and stand your drying rack on it vertically instead of horizontally it is open to allow for draining and you can use the other sitde of the sink for washing. Also it’s great for added temporary counter space. when I cook a meal that requires a lot of prep like chicken parm I set my bowls for coating chicken across the sink. Or for baking projects. I use the sink roll out mat in bathrooms that don’t have a lot of counter space for hairstyling tools or makeup etc. Love that they role up and can be stored easily.
I lI’m be the built in seating, takesmeback to my folks MCM home where I grew up. I’m not sure about the sleeping quarters being fully ‘exposed’ all day. For myself zI’d prefer maybe a part divider that didn’t reach ceiling height so light could come through, but still afforded an element of separation for sleeping – again a feature in some MCM homes
Love your design solutions! I would have loved to see the bathroom configuration. I’m currently renovating a 450sf cottage and want to consolidate plumbing to the back center of the house to make repairs easy and protect against frozen pipes. This should be easy enough if I have the bathroom and the kitchen sink area share a wall. Kitchen layout seems straightforward, but the bathroom layout is proving to be a little more tricky.
Personally, your waste cabinet doesn’t make sense to me. For someone who needs space, imo, you wasted good cabinetry space‼️Your pantry will not hold much, this pull out cabinet could utilize a whole lot. Sorry, not liking this drawer idea! Space for storage is so important! And when you don’t have it, you MUST be creative!! Talking about dishwasher… Have you seen the “mini” dishwasher? It doesn’t take up much space…. Other than that, i love your kitchen colors, especially the wood counter top!
Everyone, every human deserves a comfortable, comforting home…but there really is something about people that have led a privileged life where having a home isn’t, wasn’t& will never be a worry for them…it’s like you can hear the calm & the ignorance of that kind of stress. It’s interesting. To me, anyway.
Sorry dear too much clutter. Too dark you chose really dark colors for the small space wrong again. Open shelves are a bad idea. It looks like more clutter every single landing in that house and every cabinet has got clutter on it. No one wants to see all that stuff..fine line between pretty and just stuff .