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Small-condo living (tiny house)

We Love Our New-and-Improved Tiny Condo: Part I

by Angela 08.29.2011
Renovations to the porch of our tiny house

My wife and I live in 650 square feet with two kids and we love it. We’ve written about our small home before, a tiny condo in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. We live in a neighborhood full of small houses and condos — the average home or condo around here is about 1,000 square feet. But [...]

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Toys: Can’t Live With ‘Em, Can’t Flush ‘Em Down the Toilet

by Angela 08.20.2010
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A friend recently asked us to make a post about how we simplify and de-clutter kids’ toys. My immediate response was, “If you’ve got an answer to that problem, I’d love to hear it, but I sure don’t!” But then I thought about it a little more and I realized that we have done a [...]

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Embracing our Tiny House

by Dorea 02.04.2010

Ever since we found out baby R was a boy, we’ve been thinking about real estate. We own a 650-ish square foot two-bedroom condo in North Cambridge (and about 40 of those sq ft are unheated enclosed porch). Our approximate plan when we bought the place two and a half years ago was that if [...]

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Gifts for City Dwellers and Other Small-Space Folks

by Angela 12.19.2009

Over the years, our friends and family have had to get used to our unique needs around gifts. We love generosity and connecting with loved ones, but with four of us sharing 660 square feet, we don’t have a lot of room to spare. Now that we’re on the other side of Hanukkah, I’ve been [...]

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Small Living

by Angela 02.09.2009

We live in a small condo, about 660 square feet, 36 square feet of which is an unheated porch off of the master bedroom. We moved here from a 450-square-foot awkwardly-arranged apartment when our daughter was almost a year old. This condo with it’s open floorplan and 200 additional square feet felt like a palace. [...]

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