{"id":129,"date":"2010-11-15T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-11-15T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:10:51","slug":"making-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2010\/11\/15\/making-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"By Jurek Durczak from Lublin, Poland (A very small house) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons from Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:A_very_small_house.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/25\/A_very_small_house.jpg\" alt=\"A very small house\" width=\"180\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently living in approximately 700 square feet of living space.\u00a0 It\u2019s small, but not unbearable.\u00a0 There\u2019s something very comforting about knowing exactly how much stuff I can cram in here at any given time.\u00a0 Old magazines?\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry you\u2019ll have to go.\u00a0 Excessive knickknacks?\u00a0 No, not so much.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t have too much stuff I probably don\u2019t need, it\u2019s that the space it takes up not only needs to be used wisely, but often needs to serve dual purposes.\u00a0 The shelf that holds a rather large record collection, also serves as a sort of room divider between the living room and the office area.\u00a0 I have three end tables that, if need arises, tuck neatly into one another.\u00a0 An old classroom desk pulls double duty as printer holder and office supply storage.\u00a0 It\u2019s the way I\u2019ve managed to make this small space feel a little less confining.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if I want to live the rest of my life in such a compact space, but it\u2019s nice knowing I have the skills to make it work.\u00a0 I\u2019m not so bold to suggest that I have skills like <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/pacificnw\/2012595209_pacificpnwl22.html\">this<\/a>, but I do all right.<\/p>\n<p>More and more people are realizing the value of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readymade.com\/magazine\/article\/small_mighty_195_chrystie_street\">smaller spaces<\/a>, and designers are responding.\u00a0 This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/03\/t-magazine\/03remix-lubell-t.html?_r=1&amp;ref=design-issue\">article<\/a> really highlights the move from the massive to the manageable in homes. \u00a0 The move seems equal parts economics and changing tastes, and much like my attempts at making less feel like more, these scaled-down houses are relying on multi-use spaces:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to make the best use of the space, the architects left the interior roof exposed and created rooms that serve multiple functions: the kitchen and dining room double as hallways, and the master bathroom also serves as a laundry room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We may not all be ready for compact living, and you know, I never thought I was either, but it&#8217;s been such a lesson.\u00a0 I now know what things I really and truly need to make my home feel comfortable, how to make the space I have magically increase with careful planning, and most of all, how to tuck the really big stuff in closets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently living in approximately 700 square feet of living space.\u00a0 It\u2019s small, but not unbearable.\u00a0 There\u2019s something very comforting about knowing exactly how much stuff I can cram in here at any given time.\u00a0 Old magazines?\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry you\u2019ll have to go.\u00a0 Excessive knickknacks?\u00a0 No, not so much.\u00a0 It\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}