Salvage Style

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Rent to Own.ph: Have you any hand-me-down furniture, thrift store finds, bits and pieces that don't really match but you can't let go off because you need them for your home and buying new pieces is out of the question? Don't despair! Here are useful ways in revamping those pieces and making them part of a beautiful whole!

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For Kelly LaPlante, a leading Los Angeles-based interior designer, author, television host, and new mother, green design isn't just about choosing fabrics and furniture made from sustainable materials.

She prefers to help her clients find new use―and often unexpected new love―for things they already own. "There's nothing more green than keeping what you have," she says.

Her own Venice loft is proof that hand-me-downs and thrift-store finds can rise to stylish new purpose.

Keret House

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Rent to Own.ph: World's skinniest house is the Keret House. The House is located on the plot measuring 92 centimeters in its narrowest point and 152 centimeters in its widest point.

Enhancing Your Entryways

from: http://www.realsimple.com/

Rent to Own.ph: Entryways or foyers give your guests their first peek into your home. Clean, minimalist, organized-cluttered or cozy - these entryways can be designed to create an impact or be a functional space in your home.

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Italy’s Tiniest Home is Just Bigger Than a Walk-In Closet

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Rent to Own.ph: We love that in every part of the world, people are finding ways to utilize extremely small spaces!

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Right in the middle of Rome, just around the corner from St. Peter’s Square, sits an unexpected surprise. A 75 square foot home which used to belong to the Abbey of St. Peter in Chains had been left to decompose since the 1930s until architect Marco Pierazzi discovered it for sale and purchased it in 2010.

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The home was in horrific shape: plaster fell from the walls and ceiling, wooden beams were rotten, and it was full of mold. Considering that the structure was built sometime in the 1700s, the fact that it was still standing at all was something of a marvel.

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The one-room home had likely been used in previous decades as a home for a person who couldn’t afford anything larger. According to Pierazzi, this was common practice in the early 20th century. Italy’s poor were happy to have a place to sleep, eat, and wash. The architect wanted to prove that it is still possible to live in a minimalist environment. Although the home is less than arm’s width wide and just 13 feet long, it does have the benefit of a very high ceiling.

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The new owner rehabilitated the home into a modern, stylish abode with space for sleeping, cooking, eating, and washing. A tiny table flips down from the wall to seat 3-4 people for a meal. There are plenty of storage spaces tucked away in the kitchen and bathroom which occupy the ground level of the tiny home.

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A lofted bedroom/living room takes up the higher part of the home. It’s accessed via a small staircase which leads up through a trap door. The door closes once you reach the upstairs so you don’t fall down the stairs while reaching for your slippers in the morning.

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The bed doubles as a sofa, and the bedroom is outfitted with a television and stereo system. Pierazzi and his wife lived in the home until they had their first child; now they rent it out to friends and family to make their stay in Rome even more memorable.

Mobile Micro Homes on Rail Tracks

From: http://www.dezeen.com/

Rent to Own.ph: We love this mobile, compact, and utilitarian micro dwelling!

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Polish architecture students Tomasz Zablotny and Paweł Maszota have unveiled a concept for a community of mobile micro homes that move around an old shipyard on railway tracks.

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Zablotny and Maszota, both studying at the Gdańsk University of Technology, propose transforming a post-industrial area in the heart of the city on the Baltic coast into a commune for artists that can be reconfigured at will.

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Named Small House on Tracks, the concept is to reuse the site's old railway lines to support a series of tiny mobile homes, all of which can expand when necessary to make more room for their occupants.

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"Our idea is to create and modulate a transformable housing complex so that a certain part of the post-industrial area would always be a liveable and comfortable space for artists, interns, workers or simply those to whom the unique atmosphere of the site would appeal," explained Zablotny.

"It's meant to be an initiative that brings back everyday life to the area, making it liveable during festivals and exhibitions, but also on a day-to-day basis," he told Dezeen.

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The project follows the same principles as a proposal by Swedish studio Jagnefalt Milton for an entire city on wheels, including a hotel, a swimming pool and a concert hall.

Each proposed unit measures 1.5 metres wide, just over two metres long, and around 2.5 metres high. This would enable more than one to be easily shipped to and from the site on the back of a lorry, or to be stored in a warehouse when not needed.

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Once fitted onto the tracks, these units would expand to create an extra metre in width. This allows enough space inside for a small living and sleeping space, a kitchenette and a separate bathroom.

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Furniture that isn't in use can be flat-packed or folded into the walls, allowing occupants to make maximum use of space. Items include a folding chair by designer Ricardo Blanco.

"Units can be easily relocated or reorganised according to changing occasions and needs," said Zablotny. "This provides maximum efficiency – only as many units as needed are used, while the rest is easily transported to a warehouse."

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The project was completed for a competition calling for inventive housing solutions.

Gdańsk Shipyard – located on a river island in the port city – was a once-thriving centre of industry for over 20,000 workers, but by 2008 there were just over 2,000.

The two designers think installing temporary homes could help to speed up the area's regeneration.

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"The shipyard landscape has become a very attractive district in recent years, and many cultural events of local and international scale are organised there," explained Zablotny. "Our units would provide temporary housing for people actively participating in the future life of the zone."

"It has been used as an art colony before, when art students from Gdańsk had their studios and rooms in the old buildings," he continued. "So we saw an opportunity for bottom-up interventions on the site."

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The units would be constructed from a mixture of plywood and steel profiles. There would also be several stationary structures dotted around the site, housing communal shower facilities.

Transformer Shelf

from: http://www.martinsaemmer.de

Rent To Own.ph: Transformer furnitures are always trendy and space saving. The bonus is in creating different looks for your home. Check this out!:

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transformer-shelf

The 120 x 85 x 75 cm size piece of furniture is composed of eight different modules, which are connected by an interlocking construction system to form a rectangular object. Drawn up in a reduced style, the compact body of the Transformer can be expanded through the active use of the drawer elements, simultaneously revealing the open inner structure. There are overall 20 different possibilities to insert elements in different sizes. The harmonised arrangement of shelf areas, recesses and lateral notches offers a maximal effective area of the modules, which are assimilated to standardised measure-ments. The cumulative height of the object, for example, corresponds to the dimensions of a worktable, while the drawer slots are in accordance with DIN. With a potential extended size of up to 3,7 meters per side the Transformer not only functions as a fluid shelving system, as a free-standing piece of furniture with a levitating character it can also serve as a partition.

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Small is Beautiful: Mighty Mouse apartment by Nicholas Gurney

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Rent to Own.ph: Hidden cabinets, clean lines, and modern furniture make this home truly a micro condo design inspiration!

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Australian architect Nicholas Gurney designed the Mighty Mouse apartment.

Completed in 2013, this small apartment of only 290 square feet (27 sqm) is located in Woolloomooloo, a harbourside, inner-city eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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“The redesign of a 27sqm studio apartment in Sydney’s, Woolloomooloo. The project is an exercise in modest, low cost, good quality design that can be afforded. The micro apartment offers a proposal for future high-density urban living for one person families; the fastest growing demographic.

The colour palette of black, yellow and red is borrowed from the tiny fictional character Mighty Mouse and is used to demarcate space. It was required that, much like Mighty Mouse, the apartment punch well above its size.”

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