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    Tiny Frugal Home is Designed to be Delightful

    The L41 home is an ultra-compact 220 square foot, sustainable, high-design, high quality, energy-efficient house designed for a new greener generation of the newly frugal, epitomized by the author of the Tiny Life Blog who found it. Having seen their parents become “upside-down” in their mortgages, some young people are looking at a way to […]

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    Elegant Shipping-Container Studio on a Budget

    Maziar Behrooz of MBArchitecture created a very simple, free-standing garden studio for just $60,000 using two 40 foot shipping containers; for the winning entry in the 2009 AIA Peconic Design Award. Like all too many artists, the client had a limited budget to work with. The solution was to use two side-by-side 40′ long, 9′6″ […]

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