Category: International
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A Century Old Windmill Transformed Into a Cozy Guesthouse
Giving old buildings new life is one of the pillars of sustainable living, so it’s always great to see such renovations take place. A great example is this recently renovated windmill in Suffolk, United Kingdom. The windmill is about 125 years old and was just a ruin for a long time, before the local firm…
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London Micro Apartment Transformed Into a Cozy Home
In many cities across the globe, the shortage of affordable apartments has led to more and more people living in micro, or shoe-box apartments. London is one of the cities facing the worst of this housing shortage crisis, and the local architecture studio CIAO recently redesigned a tiny apartment into a spacious home, which is…
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Furniture That Blends the Old with the New
Traditional craft techniques have been in decline, and have mostly been replaced almost entirely by modern production methods. But in recently years we’ve seen some trends aimed at reviving some of them. Which is not a bad thing, since things that have been learned through trial and error and have stood the test of time…
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French Tiny Home is Not as Small as it Looks
In France, laws require tiny homes to be smaller and lighter than the ones in the US. For this reason, it is downright impressive just how cozy and spacious the tiny home La Bohème which was recently designed by the firm La Baluchon, actually is. They packed a lot into a very small space without…
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Innovative Space Saving Features for Tiny Homes
The rise of rents and dwindling of affordable places to live in most cities has given rise to a number of unique tiny home living solutions in recent years. But these no longer mean quite such a drastic downsizing as they once did. Thanks to a number of innovative space saving solutions it is quite…