• Painting

    Prefab Builder Blend Projects Makes Tiny Cabins and Full-Blown Homes Made of Healthy Materials

    Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses. From prefab tiny houses and modular cabin kits to entire homes ready to ship, their projects represent some of the best ideas in the industry. Do you know a prefab brand that should be on our radar? Get in touch! After more than 15 years spent in construction, high school friends Simon Fyall and Richard Egli began to think that there must be a better way to build. When the two visited the indigenous island of Haida Gwaii in Canada in 2019, suspicion grew…

  • Plumbing

    What Makes a Tiny Home Cool? Apartment Therapy’s Latest Pop-Up Has Ideas

    “Likely, when we close our eyes and think of a small space, it’s white walls, no lighting and bad storage,” said Nate Berkus. Mr. Berkus, the celebrity interior designer, was standing in a bright, cabinet-outfitted bathroom that he designed for Apartment Therapy’s “Small/Cool NYC,” a pop-up exhibition in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The event, which is running on consecutive weekends this month and will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 29, is halfway between a showhouse and a showroom. More than a dozen 10-by-12-foot room schemes — imagined by creators as fresh as Maitri Mody, a fashion influencer who posts on Instagram under…

  • Home security

    Beautify Your Home With Tiny Tables and Colorful Poufs

    Linda Merrill Design and Photography I’m a big fan of tiny tables and colorful poufs when it comes to flexible decorating choices. My interior decorating clients for my Colorful Modern project in The Pinehills in Plymouth, MA didn’t want a coffee table because their space is small and their sofa is a recliner – so moving a coffee table wasn’t a great option. They also wanted to have added seating for visitors when needed.     I designed this custom colorful pouf and had my upholstery workroom build it. The pouf is a sturdy wood box that is padded and covered…

  • Home Moving

    10 Small Kitchen Paint Colors to Make Tiny Space Look Bigger

    Are you looking for different small kitchen paint colors to make it look bigger? Those who have small kitchens can understand the struggle behind making their space look bigger by choosing the right color choice. Right now, you might be confused and stressed about which color combination you would go for for the perfect results. Isn’t it? Well, the choice might be difficult but every problem has some solution as well. This guide will be your biggest support as we will depict a few best small kitchen color ideas for those who have been looking for but couldn’t get satisfactory…

  • Home Moving

    Renovating a Tiny Bohemian Bungalow in Los Angeles

    The City of Angels remains a city of teardowns. Despite ordinances to preserve Los Angeles’s classic little bungalows, those charming dollops from the early 20th century that have helped define the city’s architectural character continue to be replaced by McMansions and apartment blocks. One house that slipped through the cracks is a 1927 Spanish Colonial-slash-Craftsman in the Fairfax neighborhood, just south of West Hollywood. In the fall of 2020, Siena Deck, currently a production assistant at HBO, won an eight-way bidding war to claim the heartbreaker, paying $1.29 million. The 1,228-square-foot house, with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, is tucked…

  • Home Décor

    my scandinavian home: Tiny cabin update: Our Outdoor Sitting Room

    Thank you to Brafab for a great collaboration  Hello friends. I thought I’d share a small update from our cabin in the Northwest tip of Skåne today. As many of you know, we finished the build last spring (full tour here). And we’d been so busy counting down the days until we could move in that we hadn’t thought about the garden. So much so, that when we arrived the cabin was like an island surrounded by mud! Eager to rectify this before the summer, we rapidly had a deck built and set about sowing the lawn. Admittedly the grass…