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#82: What It is Truly Like To Live In A Compact House

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#82: What It is Truly Like To Live In A Compact House

If you’ve ever had dreams (or perhaps nightmares?) of living in a compact house, you are not alone. Plenty of people have plenty of distinct feelings about them. So we called up a couple who have lived in an 188 square foot space for over two years, and we asked them all of your burning questions to find out the rosy (and not so rosy) parts of compact house living. And it was FASCINATING. Plus, we have hit a big sentimental milestone at home, and Sherry’s at last jumping on the bandwagon of a certain decorating trend.

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What is New

  • We are aiming to have a post full of photos and details about our son’s bedroom update this week, but above is a peek at his new big boy bed that we mentioned. Behold the wonders of a daybed.
  • A full bedroom source rundown will be in the upcoming post, but real swift here are his sheets, the sconces, the gray bolster pillow, the bee pillows, and the art. And the wall color is Going To The Chapel and the built-ins are Senora Gray (both by Benjamin Moore).
  • Before this update, the room was fairly much unchanged from when you folks last saw it in 2014 (gasp!). Well, except when 6 months ago our son figured out he could peel off the wall decals shaped like “T”s – so it was at last time for them to go. Ha!

Compact Home: 188sqft

  • If you want to learn more about Mandy and Kevin of 188sqft, check out their journal and be sure to follow them on Instagram.
  • They’ve got some strong before & afters of their renovation (like the one below) over there too.

  • And to get a better sense of how the space in fact functions for them (and their pets) check out their house tour video:
  • Mandy also mentioned some other people that they follow who do this sort of thing with kids, so I asked her so share some of her go-tos. Here are a bunch of people juggling compact spaces and compact people :)
    • Compact Shiny Home
    • Mali Mish
    • Our Vie
    • Our Home On Wheels
    • Demi-Brooke

We are Digging

  • There is the pink letterboard Sherry got for the beach house (it is 10″ x 10″ from Felt Like Sharing on Amazon). Ours is the “Light Pink” version, but they’ve got a bunch of others – like seafoam green and white.
  • We also highly recommend following Letterfolk on Instagram for plenty of letterboard inspiration. They offer boards in plenty of other sizes and frame options.
  • This was the smart bulb starter pack that I got for Christmas, which included two bulbs and the hub. It came right under our family’s $50 gift limit back in December, so keep an eye on it to see if it drops again.
  • And in case my overview of the Philips Hue bulbs did not make sense, this graphic gives you a snapshot of the differences between the Philips Hue White & Color Ambiance bulbs (the can be any color and any tone of white), the White Ambiance bulbs (which can be any tone of white), and the White bulbs that I got (which can only be soft white – which is all my special eyes ever need). Plus they are a more normal lightbulb shape, which I am glad about.

If you are looking for something we have dug in a past episode, but do not remember which show notes to click into, here is a master list of everything we have been digging from all of our past episodes.

And lastly, a big thank you to Grove Collaborative for sponsoring this episode. You get a free $30 gift set (including the tin caddy and Mrs. Meyer’s Cleaning supplies shown below) when you sign up at Grove.co/YHL and spend your first $20.

Thanks for listening, folks!

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