| | April 6, 2011 |  | | When Your Sofa Has To Go Through The Window (And Other Small Space Conundrums) |  | | When I talk about small spaces on Re-nest, I'm usually singing their praises: Efficient! Minimal! Carbon Light! Inspirational! But if I'm being totally honest, every once and awhile the exasperated imp inside me pipes out her real opinion: Cramped! Limiting! Frustrating! The fact is that a large majority of people live in tiny spaces not because they choose to, but because they can't afford anything larger. And it doesn't have to be McMansion large; even a few extra feet can mean the difference between carrying a sofa up the stairs into your 2nd floor apartment, or having to haul it in through the window. (Wait, you haven't heard that story? Oh, it's a good one... if by "good" I mean totally traumatizing and the very best example of why I should never be in charge of measuring anything ever again.) So how do you avoid those vexing spacial problems—mattresses that won't fit through bedroom door frames, for example, or dining tables that leave no room for dining chairs. Here are a few things I've learned along the [challenging, humbling, infuriating] road to small space living: | | | |
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| | |  | | Name: Cissy and Richard Ross
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Size: 2,200 sq/ft
Years lived in: 32 Wouldn't it be amazing to live one block from the Pacific ocean? Where your dining room is fashioned from a green house, a vivid sign collection is hung salon style, freesias burst from the window boxes year-round and you sleep outside four months of the year? Cissy and Richard let the Southern California light, natural greenery and a lifetime love of travel inform their unique, throw-caution-to-the-wind sensibility.
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