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Compact Living in Style with Studio Franco
Compact Living is not about living “minimalist”. Nor is it about being
being pushed into having to “compress” your lifestyle. It is about making
the conscious choice to change the parameters of your requirements.
Pretty much like quitting smoking or going on a diet.
Having the the intent of maximising small space usage, will shape your
approach to the concept of what a Compact Lifestyle is really all about.
Apart from city dwellers being faced with the competition for living space,
those spaces must do more for more people in the Twenty First century,
than ever before.
Look at everything you possess. Consider what “value” any of it has to
the Importance of Living.
How much of what you have do you actually use? How much of what you have
is just “there”?
Bought. Used. And left packed on some shelf. With a whole lot of other
things that you never use.
One has to optimise the living space available in order to accommodate
the most important items you need for day-to-day living, without impacting
your well-being with the unnecessary clutter of things you never use.
This article examines how popular movements such as tiny homes and minimalism
are influencing how we contend with the modern-day housing and land shortage.
Apart from the fact that life is just more expensive to “live”.
For example; when considering moving towards a Compact Living lifestyle,
you should be getting multi-functional furniture. Even a bed-base can serve
as storage. This article is about getting the best, and most functional
small home appliances that will make your lifestyle “happily” functional.
I won’t deal with “sufficient” storage or “introducing plants” or paint
choices. Those are personal taste considerations that you can deal with
yourself.
Your Compact LifeStyle Guide
Introduction to Compact Living
Guide to Small Apartment Living
Choose Appliances That Fit
Best 'Must-Have' Appliances
Enjoying a Compact Lifestyle
Benefits of Buying Top-Grade
If You Have to Pay For It
Energy-Efficient Appliances
Energy Saving vs Time Saving
Ten Things to Consider
11 Storage Solutions
Advantages of a Small Apartment
Benefits of Ironed Clothes
Induction vs. Electric Hot-Plate
Other Things to Read
Many people have made, make, and are going to make the mistake of thinking
that a Lifestyle is part of, or the result of a “Fad”, or a “Trend”.
A "fad" is a style or activity which is zealously popular, but usually
does not stay popular for very long. A "trend" is a general direction of
change. In social terms, a "trend" is a way of behaving or proceeding,
that is developing and becoming more common among a population.
Some trends stick. Generally, because of newly recognised health concerns,
financial turbulence or changing social norms and mores.
The one area where trends have had the most impact, and the most far-reaching
consequences on all of those issues – is Technology. No matter what you
do or think – the technology is there. Micro-miniaturised. Ubiquitous and
incipient – technology has made its way into the Internet of Things. Everything
is connected. Almost.
Home appliances are the one thing that we can be sure of, are not a fad.
And cooking and cleaning are not trends. So we should really buy equipment
that we hope will last – at least 5 years, if not ten.
If we curb our conspicuous consumption we will find that we are able to
achieve more with less.
Hopefully, this Guide to a Compact Lifestyle will set you on the path
to achieving that.
So let us begin with small home appliances. Once you overcome this part
– the rest is easy.
If we are going to do this we should at least >
Choose Appliances That Fit
I am a graphic designer and industrial product designer who has worked
40 years in the Advertising & Marketing Industry.
This article was originally written for my website
“A Guide to Compact
Living”and my foray into affiliate marketing.
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