IKEA

Ikea PAX planner. It helps you plan, and gives you peace. Or something. But It Worked For Us! (tm)

http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/rooms_ideas/pax_planner_2006/index.html

We got a quote from a local closet company for the same space, and we saved at least 75% by doing it ourselves. Granted, the pressboard is not the best-quality pressboard, but hey...it's all pressboard in the end.

Small Feral Living

Aboveground:
One-of-a-kind tree houses that really seem like home

Belowground:
Hobbit Hole

Really, where DOES the media get the impression that Pacific Northwesterners are a bunch of dirty hippies with twigs in their hair? I have no idea at all.

And I wouldn't live anywhere else.

Tips for your small life

Japanese-influenced 20 Tips for Living in Small Spaces

Apartment Therapy's 10 Tips for Small Spaces. Other interesting ideas on there too.

Oh my god, I'm reading my grandmother's magazine. Better Homes and Gardens' 20 Small House Dos and Don'ts.

I think I need to go take my Centrum now.

Your Small Home: Modern or Traditional?

Basically, there are two types and approaches with your small home. I'm guessing you either have a quaint, 1400 square foot ballerina, circa 1920;

or an haughtily modern European- or Japanese-influenced urbanite, circa 2000.

Or maybe you live in a loft or apartment or townhouse. No matter, we're just trying to find creative ways to live in (and with) less.