Laesely Prefab Studio

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The Copenhagen-based firm of Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, designed this small, prefab studio box. It’s crafted from an insulated wooden frame and exterior wall cladding and I wouldn’t mind using it as my favorite reading space.

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Little House on the Trailer

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This small house is a spacious, prefab mobile home or portable office, offering high end custom construction. It’s a great solution when you’re looking for extra space or even a temporary space – It’s delivered on wheels and when you no longer need it, you can simply remove it.

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Small Maison

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Located in Coudeville, France, this small family home is traditionally constructed of a light-colored, wooden frame with an untreated pine cladding exterior. The house shape is quite simple but it’s so aesthetic and oh-so-lovely.

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Lavaflow 2

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With a couple of Lavaflow houses up his sleeve, San-Francisco-based Architect Craig Steely knows a thing or two about navigating the execution of modern homes in remote Hawaiian areas as well as designing for the extreme climate of the region.

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Molly’s Cabin

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Katja and Adam Thom, from the architectural firm of Agathom, chose a long, windswept granite rock in northern Ontario, Canada to built a small, off the grid wood-framed cabin with a modern slanting roof resembling an airplane wing or a tent flap pulled down and pegged.

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Slot House

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The Slot House is a small home renovation project by Noroof Architects, located in Brooklyn, NY. Positioned behind a beautiful Maple tree, this compact home of 1000 sq. ft. got its name from the slot incision created to allow the tree to be seen from inside, only during the work the original structure’s cedar-framed handmade brick wall was revealed, becoming the spatial concept of the house, extending it vertically and horizontally.

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Finger Apartment

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With a tiny space of 540 sq. ft. this small, New-York apartment was renovated to accommodate Michael Finger and Joanne Kennedy and their two children.

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Joe’s House

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Created by Vancouver-based architecture firm Osburn/Clarke, Joe’s House is a small, tree fort retreat home – one of a group of buildings commissioned by the same client – located on an island off the south west coast of British Columbia, Canada.

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Marshmellow M1

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The Marshmellow from Lebello is no ordinary stool. It’s available in a variety of bright refreshing colors and when turned upside down the flat surface can also be used as a table top, making it a great, multi functional piece of furniture for small and compact spaces as well as a fresh twist for the summer.

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The Stonorov Studio

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A 100 year old barn has been renovated and transformed into a tiny home, where Tolya and Otto Stonorov carefully designed a compact, child-proof space for their family of three plus Oscar, the dog. Located in Oakland, California this two-story, 400 sq. ft. house is quite compact.

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Folding Wall Bed

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Here’s a great remodeling project by the San Francisco-based architect, Barbara Shands, where an original, 300 sq. ft. garage has been transformed, with a minimalist approach, into a small home office and guest room.

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Small Home Gypsy Wagon

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Step back in time with this small gypsy wagon – a unique handcrafted home, full of Victorian details on the outside as well as on the inside; use it as a portable guest house, a romantic retreat or a one-of-a-kind home office.

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Plankbridge Shepherd Hut

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Located in Dorset, UK, the Plankbridge Workshop creates the most adorable, small homes which can be used as home office, studio or garden room. With a traditional, insulated, mobile design, these huts are cosy and full of charming details.

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Straw Bale Hybrid Home

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Located in New Mexico, this small house (less than 800 sq. ft.) generates all of its own electricity. By the use of green construction materials this compact home incorporates passive solar heating and cooling, where straw bale exterior walls insulate and interior adobe thermal mass walls absorb heat.

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