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Living in 300 square feet

I’m always inspired by someone who can live in a little space — and live well.

Mary Lee has planned her studio apartment to get maxium style in minimum space, using bright neutrals and mirrored surfaces to keep everything bright.

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And this studio apartment is really a studio — she works there, too!

 

Check out the home tour at Apartment Therapy, find inspiration for your home.  I found it in the brightness, and what Mary Lee says about keeping her belongings to a minimum, too.

Buy things that have a purpose in your life. If it is not functional or doesn’t evoke a valuable emotion, like inspiration or nostalgia, then it’s not necessary. Don’t clutter your space with stuff, supply it with purpose. Don’t think of it so much as decorating but more of curating a collection over time that best tells the story of you.

Living large in Hawaii

Johnny Sanphillippo had a dream — to own his own home.  But, daunted by the housing prices in hometown San Francisco (and his salary as a housekeeper), he knew he had to come up with his own solution.

Read this Huffington Post article about how he managed to build a place he could call his own — without a mortgage.

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The Vancouver Sun’s Shelley Fralic features our story in the paper!

My great-grannie always said that a lady should have her name in the paper 3 times in her life — when she is born, when she married, and when she died.

But great-grannie did not know of what she spoke. Because this morning I got a huge charge looking at page 3 of the Vancouver Sun to see myself looking back!

Columnist Shelley Fralic wrote the story “Meet the Lady Who Lives Down the Lane” after meeting with DD, our builder Laurel and I last week.  She had heard about the blog on The Home Discovery Show and thought her readers would be interested in our story.

Be sure to check out the story.  I am quite chuffed about this sudden celebrity.

Let’s see — radio, now newspaper.  Who should I get to play me in the movie of my life?

Small space in the Big Apple

Thanks to Style at Home, we can see how  New York-based Canadian designer Brendan Kwinter-Schwartz re-made pilot Kerry Dempsey’s 680 square foot Manhattan loft into a sleek but comfortable home.

What’s not to love?

manhattan-loft-grandest-spaceEspecially those saucer pendant lights and the cowhide-as-area rug on hardwood.  Armless slipper chairs are versatile yet take up less visual space.

manhattan-loft-classicBut don’t plan on installing those light-as-air stairs unless you want to become BFFs with members of the board of variance.  As far as I know, in Vancouver you are not allowed spaces between stairs large enough for a baby’s head to fit through (about 4″ or 10cm).

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