A Shop Where Less is More, seen on Remodelista.
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From NYT: Selling a Pared Down Life.
“Graham Hill… held a contest to reimagine a 420-square-foot apartment in a century-old tenement building in Manhattan as a multipurpose laboratory for living with less. Now, its moving parts — Murphy beds, a moving wall — transform the space into six “rooms.”
Graham Hill also founded LifeEdited:
“At LifeEdited, we see a new future, one where spaces and products are designed around the things that are important to people, and the things that are not important are “edited” out. -
From the blog small notebook.
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Storage solution. Seen on Ikea Hackers via Unclutterer.
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House A / Vaillo & Irigara + Beguiristain on arch daily.
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Levi’s has created Water<Less jeans, which require significantly less water during the manufacturing process. Explore the info graphic above here.
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The Elliott Ripper House by Christopher Polly Architect
And from Celia Barbour’s article Clutter: The Long Goodbye in Whole Living:
“…even if we have enough square footage to store all our unnecessary belongings, we should be more protective of our mental space. Because what matters more…is the room they occupy in our brains, in the stories we tell ourselves to justify holding on to them……’We got these as a wedding gift’ my dad would say as he handed me something he no longer wanted. I felt like a crazy museum curator, assiduously looking after objects whose sole value was that they had once been meaningful to someone else…”
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A paperless life tool: FaxZERO (send a pdf as a fax for free)
And a typical conversation had between a reductionist and a reductionist’s well meaning relative. -
House Reduction
This renovation project actually resulted in a reduction in the home’s footprint.
