Small is Beautiful

There is a great opportunity for being creative in a small home. Storage in older homes is sometimes a challenge but there is a plethora of storage systems and organizational systems on the market today and many of them work quite well. Closets are often smaller than what we are used to but those can be easily organized too. Built ins are a great solution.

The most practical solution, of course, is to reduce the amount of stuff we have to begin with. Do we really need that much? Consuming less helps us appreciate what we do have and maybe we will make choisce to have fewer things that are higher quality. What we don't have means that those less fortunate may be able to have something rather than nothing at all.

Creative use of light and color also can make a room seem spacious. Different furniture or different arrangement of furniture can change a room dramatically. Multi use spaces and multi use objects can expand a space many times over.