It 'was recently proposed in a national newspaper we all need to start thinking about "small house for a small planet" – an interesting concept. Seems to approach non-Americans, because all the houses twice as large as for example used our European colleagues.
How to live in small houses? If we do that? WE? How we intend to tone down our lives, without sacrificing the ease and efficiency of our lifestyle?
ThisThe questions may seem scary, but not when you look at the rational design of campers and fifth wheels. The advantages of living in smaller apartments are fairly obvious: less land, less land, less building materials to heat up less space and less from floor to carpet – you get the idea! The overall picture spells a life that costs less to live. More money to enjoy!
If you happen to resize (and in these days of rising food prices and energy costs, many have thought of us!) One offirst question that arises is what can we do without? Or rather, what would we do without?
Nothing.
Correct!
Thus, when unused space that we can do is to get away? This is best done by considering ways to respond to each of us to live. The National Movement Builders offers a way to streamline our habitat become aware of what we use.
This can be done by writing a list of all the activities we performed in the house, recording when they do, and mappingthe exact space that we already do a. You can probably think of "unused" parts of some rooms.
When these activities planned, you can see that only parts of each chamber is required and can be home with the new "Great Room Plan" design and copy all your housing needs in the area. In a very broad sense, this idea could really save surface data such as corridors and doors, not to mention the (whole room!) Deleted.
Two orthree obvious areas is wasted space for many designers, are these: formal dining room, bathroom and garage.
In the case of the formal dining room, sell, whether they are used only three or four times a year without having to see a manager. Problem here: many of us would still want formal dining atmosphere occasionally.
But you can create a kitchen with dining area in a way that the atmosphere can be changed "formal" but only when necessary. Thatachieved by a skilful use of light and a non-invasive system to separate the two functions of the consumption of food and cooking.
The use of fixed or sliding doors decorative displays are also an option which only used if the formal atmosphere could be. could be saved into a new house this up to 100 square meters, and many thousands of dollars.
Next is the bathroom and the realization that most of us use it as a reading room, providing a boudoir for the use orEscape to a minute's silence before the kids! If we created an efficient bathroom, maybe we could get by with only one bathroom!
The European idea of separation from the bathtub / shower and toilet on the actual means that people can pop in and out the smallest room in the house very quickly, because there is very interesting!
During that European demand for the toilet, there are no mirrors (so that children do not hang around!) And it's a wash Petite sticksabout nine inches from the wall for hand washing of the surface. The room is very small – it makes no sense to stay!
The garage, if you have, you can also be transformed into a working wall mother in law suite or teenager with a simple insulation and dry. A carport offers almost as much protection as a car to a garage in temperate climates. If the man in the house is a bit 'of rubbing to consider the conversion of part of garage into a workshop! A workbench and a solid wallThe decrease pegboard for hanging tools are a lot of free storage anywhere.
recognize now that you know how much space there is no need for you, buy a new house with lower savings, maybe a cruise or two!