My friend Gabriel has been talking about the tinyhouseblog for a while now, and it’s completely amazing. The people who build and live in these spaces are pretty much my heroes. They have chosen location and lifestyle over physical belongings–but often to what may be considered an extreme.
Take Felice Cohen for example. She’s a professional organizer, an artist and an author and she lives in a 90-square-foot-apartment in NYC. Check it out!
I’m not sure that I could really do what she’s doing here (I’m a little claustrophobic) but she does two things that I would encourage everyone to do!
First, she took the doors off her closet. If you’re in a small space, this is really helpful. It allows you to be able to see EVERYTHING that you own without having to negotiate around the opening of a door, or only seeing half your closet at a time behind a sliding door.
In addition, I would encourage you to increase your upward storage space. Many of us have at least a couple of feet above our kitchen cabinets, our wardrobes, and other spaces. Just because there is a top shelf, that doesn’t mean that your ability to put things there stops. Stick another shelf up there! Stick some boxes up there! I keep all my hats on the tops of my wardrobes at my house (only my Hartford friends probably even realize that I own hats). I’ve added a shelf above eye level in the dining room for extra space.
I would not encourage you to put your bed within 3 feet of the ceiling though unless you don’t mind the feeling of sleeping in a coffin. Or maybe that’s just me. And if you don’t know what I’m talking about, you really need to watch the video. (Thank you to Gabriel for sending it!)
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