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Maximizing Your Small Space

When considering how to best optimize the space you live in or work in, think of yourself as an artist, falling back on the adage "form follows function." As a small-home dweller, identify the purpose of the living or work area and implement a strategy th... Read >

Sectional Sofas Suit Smaller Rooms

When you’re furnishing a small living space, one of the most important things to keep in mind is scale. You want each room to reflect your personality and sense of style without being overwhelmed by patterns, colors, or furniture that is too large or ove... Read >

Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome

Many people fall into the category of "pack rats." We all know someone who just can't seem to throw away anything, from old magazines to sweaters, or who "collects" items to the point where every space is cluttered. But there is a big difference between t... Read >

Applying the Pareto Principle to Downsizing Your Belongings

Look around your home... what do you find? Closets full of old clothes, drawers stuffed to the brim with more silverware and dishes than you could ever hope to use. A garage full of old junk and deflated basketballs next to a cardboard box full of dusty o... Read >

Efficient Ways of Furnishing A Small Space

Having downsized to a smaller apartment, you're probably wondering about the best way to furnish it. Fortunately, there is an abundance of furnishing options that can help save and make the best use out of any space you have. Just because you've moved to ... Read >

Go Small, Live Green

Living small oftentimes means living a lifestyle that is friendly toward the environment. Consider small prefabricated homes, homes that are among the fastest-growing "green" homes in environmentally conscious circles. A green home features such eco-frien... Read >

Frugal, Simple Living and Downsizing

It’s difficult to pinpoint when the simple living movement began. With the exception of royalty and the elite class, our ancestors were the poster children for simple living. The difference between these distant generations is that those in the past did n... Read >

How to Declutter and Get Rid of It!

Home downsizing consists of shrinking one’s living space, which usually includes reducing house square footage, as well as the amount and size of home furnishings and other belongings. People across America are realizing the economic and psychological ben... Read >

Downsize and Reduce Home Costs

(Keyword: frugal ideas). This article should address the economic considerations of home downsizing. It should emphasize the cost-saving opportunities that home downsizing presents. The enviable benefit of home downsizing is cost downsizing. Virtu... Read >

Small Bathrooms, Big Impressions

Sprucing up smaller bathrooms is often an afterthought when it comes to interior design. But it can be the most efficient and rewarding design project of the whole home. When it comes to the most style per square foot, smaller bathrooms are the ideal plac... Read >

Why You Should Downsize When You Retire

Congratulations … you’re retired, or about to be anyway, and you’ve got a lot to think about. Life is full of decisions. As one grows older, it also becomes increasingly full of stuff accumulated throughout a person’s life. Sometimes this stuff comes with... Read >

Home Downsizing

Home downsizing is the new, smarter paradigm of the American Dream. Modern amenities, homeownership, a wide range of building materials, custom furniture—it’s all there, in a much more efficiently sized package. Plus, modern small homes can mean smaller b... Read >

Retire Into More Quality Time by Downsizing

Living in the large family home as the homeowner ages virtually guarantees that the property becomes more and more a genuine chore to take care of. Eying retirement from that big house with the big lawn isn’t an ideal vantage point for most, which is wher... Read >

Furnishing a Small Space

The amount of living space utilized, how it's used and at what cost all figure into a person’s furnishing strategy. Downsizing by a third or a half of the average home’s square footage calls for smart furniture sourcing and creative ways to arrange pieces... Read >

Small Green Homes

A small home can pack a super-sized punch when it comes to reducing a house’s environmental footprint. Energy-efficient, sustainable homes tend to be smaller homes, which inherently have less square footage inside and less acreage outside. The inside cost... Read >