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How to Decorate a Small Home for Christmas

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If you have a small home, like us, it can be tricky to figure out the best way to decorate for the festive season: you don't want to clutter up your home, yet you really want that cosy, Christmas feeling. Well, luckily there are plenty of ways to fill your home with Christmas spirit without the clutter. Christmas decoration for a small home, even a tiny house, where space … [Read more...] about How to Decorate a Small Home for Christmas

Filed Under: Family Home and Hygge Tagged With: Christmas, House and Garden, small family apartment, small space living

Creating our own Tiny Urban Garden

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Part 1- Birth of a Tiny Urban Garden Our small apartment comes with a tiny balcony- just 2 m x 1.6 m- which would be just enough for us all to sit out for a meal. Thankfully the housing association (BRF) we are members of allows owners of ground floor apartments, as we are, to utilise the area outside the flat and create our own tiny urban garden. The little garden … [Read more...] about Creating our own Tiny Urban Garden

Filed Under: Family Home and Hygge Tagged With: garden, garden design, House and Garden, Life in Sweden, small garden, urban garden

How to Create a Tiny Urban Garden

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You'd be surprised the size of patches people around the world are creating their tiny urban gardens! It really is possible to create a miniature urban haven of greenery in the smallest and most unlikely places. Take example from Paris' urban gardening initative Have you heard about Paris' incentive to add more greenery to the city infamous for its congestion and lack of … [Read more...] about How to Create a Tiny Urban Garden

Filed Under: Family Home and Hygge Tagged With: eco steps, garden, garden design, home, House and Garden, small family apartment, urban gardening

Renovation priorities- Where to start

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When you move into a house or an apartment that needs total renovation, where EVERYTHING needs to be redone... Just where do you start? Over the past week, since we've been back in our tiny apartment, I've been asking this same question.  It's overwhelming looking at the whole project and I realise we need to break it down into phases so we keep our sanity. "Where do you … [Read more...] about Renovation priorities- Where to start

Filed Under: Family Home and Hygge Tagged With: home decor, House and Garden, interior tips, interiors, small family apartment, tiny family apartment, top tips

Small Family Apartment Remodelling- Taking Down a Wall

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Kitchen remodel ¦ small family apartment ¦ tiny house

So, does 700 square feet for a family of 5 plus dog count as a small apartment or a tiny apartment?  It certainly is tight!  Some remodelling is called on, for sure. On a beautiful Saturday, when the weather was actually beckoning us to sit on our terrace to just chill, sip coffee and eat cake, we found ourselves with a crowbar and a large hammer in our new flat. Our first … [Read more...] about Small Family Apartment Remodelling- Taking Down a Wall

Filed Under: Family Home and Hygge Tagged With: apartment, family life, flat, House and Garden, remodelling, renovation, small family apartment, small space living, stud partition, Sweden, tiny family apartment, tiny house, Uppsala, wall removal

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Just 700 square feet / 65 square meters for a family of 5? That's a very small apartment for all of you! ...we hear this quite often! How do you fit? How do you make it work? There … ... more about Renovating & Decorating a Small Family Home for a Family of 5

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