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Ikea Presents Find It! Part 3
Are people who live in small spaces a bit smarter? Could it be that they have perfected the art of thinking unconventionally, that they are more willing to try out radical ideas than people with a lot of space? Well, there is absolutely no science behind it but we do have a feeling this just might be the case. For those who live in small spaces and have hats and vases and jars and kittens and poetry collections and flowerpots, we really have to use all the surfaces in our homes to the max and be super smart to make sure everything fits, don't we? But how is that done in reality? Join us as we check out ten different homes where they have worked out how to make small spaces, smart spaces.
192 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2017
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September 19, 2023
Very cute! Always hard to rate an artbook, especially one this seemingly ephemeral (and part of a series, which means I'm missing context). Overall I found it easy to flip through, very attractive, and honestly solid for coming up with new space-saving ideas.
A list of thoughts:
- a few typos! nothing egregious
- REALLY lovely and well-arranged photography
- always easy to picture the layouts in full, which is often a nitpick I have with these sorts of books; THANK YOU for the floor plans!!!
- why was one of these people straight up a landlord renting their giant house for income and choosing to live in their heavily remodeled basement. you and i are not the same
- a lot of non-disabled/fat-accessible suggestions (narrow hallways, items that have to be moved daily, laddered sleeping lofts) though that's a perennial issue and also did I mention the landlord
- some really good creative solutions I haven't seen elsewhere!!
- spread across countries and continents, though predictable focus on US/Europe/Japan
My favorite solutions were definitely reliance on textiles to separate space, baskets hung on hooks hung on ladders/chair backs/etc to utilize vertical space without drilling into walls, and ohmygod the BALCONIES. I want these balconies so bad. Can't stress enough how much this made me lust after balconies. Also loved the vast diversity of color palettes; though there were a lot of white walls, that didn't mean the homes weren't colorful, and I definitely need that as a renter right now. Maybe I'll just get a hundred colorful throw pillows.
Recommend if you're interested, though I don't know where you'd get it (I found it thrifting). It's honestly hard to find any of these kinds of books with new ideas, so I'm happy I saw a couple here even if I'll likely wind up scraping just a couple pages for my house-ideas doc. I'm almost certainly going to share it with people I know, which is enough of a rec for me.
A list of thoughts:
- a few typos! nothing egregious
- REALLY lovely and well-arranged photography
- always easy to picture the layouts in full, which is often a nitpick I have with these sorts of books; THANK YOU for the floor plans!!!
- why was one of these people straight up a landlord renting their giant house for income and choosing to live in their heavily remodeled basement. you and i are not the same
- a lot of non-disabled/fat-accessible suggestions (narrow hallways, items that have to be moved daily, laddered sleeping lofts) though that's a perennial issue and also did I mention the landlord
- some really good creative solutions I haven't seen elsewhere!!
- spread across countries and continents, though predictable focus on US/Europe/Japan
My favorite solutions were definitely reliance on textiles to separate space, baskets hung on hooks hung on ladders/chair backs/etc to utilize vertical space without drilling into walls, and ohmygod the BALCONIES. I want these balconies so bad. Can't stress enough how much this made me lust after balconies. Also loved the vast diversity of color palettes; though there were a lot of white walls, that didn't mean the homes weren't colorful, and I definitely need that as a renter right now. Maybe I'll just get a hundred colorful throw pillows.
Recommend if you're interested, though I don't know where you'd get it (I found it thrifting). It's honestly hard to find any of these kinds of books with new ideas, so I'm happy I saw a couple here even if I'll likely wind up scraping just a couple pages for my house-ideas doc. I'm almost certainly going to share it with people I know, which is enough of a rec for me.
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