Tag: Lifeedited - Page 5
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5 Space-Saving Cabinet Solutions for a Tiny Apartment
Graphic: LifeEdited.
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LifeEdited: Home Electronics and Entertainment
Photo credit: William Hook via Flickr/Creative Commons
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LifeEdited: Looking At Windows
One of the hardest decisions in the design of buildings is the choice of windows. There are so many variables and choices, and so much misinformation. For the LifeEdited project, where the windows are going into an existing building, both looking out
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Less is More: Dishwasher Is Integrated Into Sink
Here is a great idea for small spaces and perhaps even a LifeEdited: a dishwasher integrated with the kitchen sink. It just makes so much sense to integrate the wet functions, and top loading is logical when you are dealing with water. The lid becomes
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Looking For Low Water Usage In Your Tiny Home? Try A Dish Drawer
Thus far, the search for energy-efficient, beautiful and small appliances for Graham Hill's LifeEdited apartment has been, if nothing else, revealing. Manufacturers, while they generally make small models, don't seem to be
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5 Mini Fridge Freezer Combos for Small Kitchens
As with ovens, so with fridges -- manufacturers make smaller models, but seemingly not with the tiny home in mind.
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6 Energy-Efficient Convection Microwave Ovens For Small Kitchens
In the search for the most energy-efficient cooktop (read more here) for his 420-square-foot apartment in New York City, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill faced a somewhat simple choice in terms of efficiency --
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5 Energy-efficient Induction Cooktops For Small Kitchens
The design brief: TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's 420-square-foot apartment in New York may be micro-sized, but his life calls for a great deal of outsized entertaining. So in spite of wanting
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Tiny Homes Hit Mainstream (An Intentional Bike Neighborhood Is Born)
It looks like an oversize city lot - just 15,000 square feet - destined for some starter castle. But the plot of dirt sitting at the corner of inner city Portland's 43rd and Division streets is something else - it's the
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10 Recycling Bins: Good But Not Great (Slideshow)
We understand it's hard to get green product designs to market at a good price. Still, why have so few eco design wizards tried their hand at designing a recycling bin system that looks good, takes up as little floorspace as possible, and has enough
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Camping In Your Apartment: More Folding Tables That Take Up Less Space
Witold Rybczynski writes in HOME: A short History of an Idea that in the middle ages, "people didn't live in homes so much as camp in them." I always thought it would work very well again for those who try to live in
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10 Ways To Monitor Power In a Tiny Apartment (Slideshow)
We've been hearing about the smart grid and the smart home for years, but if you start from scratch, how smart can you actually make your 420-square-foot apartment in terms of its energy and other resource consumption?
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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 Transformer Tables For A Tiny Urban Space: Help Pick The Best (Slideshow)
TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste -- on less money -- but with more design. He calls it LifeEdited. To find each ideal piece of furniture for his small
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Closet House: Big Moving Closet Wall Changes Spaces
It's not exactly Gary Chang's domestic transformer four minutes of wow, but this Portuguese apartment has a giant moving closet that separates the living area from the sleeping, and much like the winner in the LifeEdited
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LifeEdited Circa 1945: George Nelson's Storage Wall for Life Magazine
Image photographed at Herman Miller Archives
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200 Square Foot NY Apartment Makes LifeEdited Look Like A Palace
Malena Georgieva manages to survive in 200 square feet, smaller than most hotel rooms. And while it is unlikely that she can serve a dinner for twelve as Graham wants to in the LifeEdited program, it is cozy and according
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Winners Selected in LifeEdited Competition To Design New York Apartment
Can you crowdsource design? Can you run an international ideas competition online, with over 300 submissions, commenting, inviting change, watching schemes evolve, and then judge it? Evidently yes, because Graham Hill and the LifeEdited team at Jovoto
