Tag: Apartments

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  Portable "Sky Deck" Turns Your Fire Escape into a Terrace

  A small wood setup clips onto a railing, creating a table.

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  Hanging Plant Balcony Works Like a Drawbridge

  A window planter system lets apartment dwellers create their own hanging balcony for plants.

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  Alternating Tread Stair Saves Space, Looks Gorgeous

  These stairs are surprisingly easy to use, but they sure don't look it

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  Minimalist Design Makes a Full Bedroom Under the Stairs

  A simple design uses a bed and a desk to make the space under the stairs into a bedroom and place to hang out.

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  Zem Joaquin, Founder of Ecofabulous.com (Podcast)

  Even if the label of "maven" is painfully over-applied, there are people who still deserve it. Zem Joaquin, the stylish polymath behind Ecofabulous.com, is one of those few. Zem has been on the editorial side of mags like House and Garden, Domino, and

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  10 Stackable Chairs for a Tiny Urban Space: Comments, Suggestions? (Slideshow)

  When your space is limited and you like to have a party every so often, every chair counts.

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  10 Stackable Chairs for a Tiny Urban Space: Comments, Suggestions?

  When your space is limited and you like to have a party every so often, every chair counts. That's why TreeHugger founder Graham Hill plans to choose his chairs -- for the small New York apartment he is remodeling and revamping in order to live a LifeE

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  To Save Space, Architects Put the Shower in the Living Room. Has This Gone Too Far?

  At TreeHugger, we're pretty adamant that one of the best ways is to minimize

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  7 Cities with Great Green Projects Others Should Imitate

  Cities can be hot-spots of pollution, with thousands or millions of people, cars, pets, industries, and more contributing to global warming. But they can also be centers of innovation, as bright ideas, available funding, and

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  Crowdsourced Design For an Ultra Low-Footprint Apartment: Clever Ideas from the LifeEdited Project

  What if we could save money, radically reduce our environmental impact, and have a freer, less complicated life? That was the challenge laid forth by TreeHugger founder Graham Hill when he started LifeEdited, an online international design competition th

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  Folding Beds from Griffon Make Reclaimed Space Look Good

  The French furniture company Griffon was established in 1848 and spent the next century making conventional products for churches and private homes. But in the 1960s, Griffon turned to creating furniture for an increasingly

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  Futuristic Green Design Concepts Give New Life to Old Buenos Aires Building (Slideshow)

  Design and architecture event Casa FOA takes an old building or structure in Buenos Aires and puts it in the hands of talented architects and designers -- who transform it to showcase interior design 'concept spaces.'

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  Futuristic Green Design Concepts Give New Life to Old Buenos Aires Building

  Design and architecture event Casa FOA takes an old building or structure in Buenos Aires and puts it in the hands of talented architects and designers -- who transform it to showcase interior design 'concept spaces.' Apart from bringing new life to old

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  Gorgeous 300 Sq. Foot Live/Work Loft Has A Place For Everything

  Presented at Casa FOA interior design exhibition in Buenos Aires, this lovely 300 sq. feet apartment is architects Leandro Artigala and Sergio Coluccio's response to the challenge of conceiving a

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  Sociopolis, the Rurban Housing Project Brings the Campo to the City (Photos)

  Inhabiting the Huerta. Photo Credit: Guallart Architects Five years ago, we first heard about Sociopolis, a "shared habitat" in Valencia (Spain). This housing development is to trigger social interaction between inhabitants, propose a new type of

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  Living Better with Less: LifeEdited Debuts at Poptech

  It's a design contest. It's a way to rethink the way we live, especially our habit of relying so much on stuff. It's a closer look at our demand for big spaces. It's a way to learn to live with less. It's shameless self-promotion.

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  Buenos Aires renovation has clever use of space, recycled materials

  Argentineans are known for making much with little, and this is true in architecture as well. The PH is a local typology of small houses aligned in long and narrow lots, which provides the feeling of a home with some

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  Switch: Moving Wall Transforms Home To Office

  Making a space work as both a home and an office can be hard, which is why so many home offices are in bedrooms, basements or sheds. Japanese designer Yuko Shibata shows an approach that might work in