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3/20 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11675835/site/newsweek http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/scc.php SCC2 is the Second Annual World's Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest. The guy who lives in a 75sqft apartment in Manhattan is going to be the judge. To be eligible, your apartment must be less than 650sqft. Function, form, comfort will be taken into consideration in the contest. \_ 650 sq. ft. is small? \_ Yes, very. \_ It's all relative. 650sqft is big for a student who's used to the dorms, but is tiny to Mr. Dim Wit who loves to live in McMansions even though they're wasteful and located in inconvenient places that require driving 15 minutes just to get grocery. |
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| www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11675835/site/newsweek Apartments: Celebration of Small Newsweek March 13, 2006 issue - In real estate, there's one variable that buyers value nearly as much as "location, location, location": square footage. The average newly built US home contains 2,350 square feet, up 57 percent since 1970. But Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, a New York interior designer, believes many people can live comfortably in drastically smaller spaces if they choose furniture and possessions sparingly and arrange them wisely. com, will launch its second annual Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest. Last year's contest limited entrants, who e-mail digital photos of their abodes, to New Yorkers living in 500 square feet or less. This year, the contest has gone national and upped the cutoff to 650 square feet. Gillingham-Ryan, whose new book, "Apartment Therapy: The Eight-Step Home Cure," arrives in bookstores this month, says the key to making small spaces work is to design rooms that serve several functions. you have to figure out how to give rooms a multifunction feeling," he says. Among last year's entries, some featured one wall that worked as an office while the opposite wall served as the dining room. When last year's winner, ad-agency creative director Patrick Hamilton, first heard about the contest, his 485-square-foot apartment was such a disaster, he was embarrassed to let his building's maintenance man in. So he used the contest as an incentive to make over his space. He rented a storage unit for unneeded stuff, then set an egg timer and spent 30 minutes each day sorting, discarding and rearranging before submitting his entry. He says the contest isn't for the thin-skinned since the site allows viewers to critique. "You're having total strangers say they hate your sofa," he says. Judges-including comedian Seth Herzog, who lives in a 70-square-foot space he believes to be Manhattan's smallest apartment-will pick the winners in April. The top finisher gets $2,500 to spend at modernist mecca Design Within Reach-assuming, that is, they have someplace to fit a new piece of furniture. |
| www.apartmenttherapy.com/scc.php Because we've never accepted that a lack of space is fatal when it comes to creating an inspiring home and nothing jazzes us more than the hand-made home or the stylish studio wedged into an urban crevice. The Smallest, Coolest Apartment contest is a contest for all small apartments and homes in the lower 48 states under 650 square feet. We are seeking the most ingenious and beautiful 120 submissions along with all the tips and resources we need to maximize our own homes. jpg ) * A Mailing Address (so we can send you a prize) * What inspired you? com (and put "EAST" or "WEST" in all caps in the subject field) Deadline All entries should be received no later than Monday, March 13th Criteria? Readers and judges are asked to evaluate each submission for excellence in these three areas: Efficiency Innovative use of small space to maximize livability Aesthetics Beauty and stylistic achievement in Decor Special Challenges Creative problem solving in dealing with adverse conditions Detailed Rules? There will be ongoing evaluation to determine which entries are posted to the site. In that we have a month to post, we can ONLY publish 120 entries online for public review (3 per day). The more entries we receive the more discerning we will have to be about what gets online. Readers are voting throughout the month of March in that they are evaluating each entry as soon as it is posted. Although they will not be voting per se, they will be encouraged to comment and assess. The judges will review and take into account these comments when making their final decision. As the comments are public, the process remains very transparent. Take the length and width of your apartment as if it was a rectangle and multiply together to get gross square footage (this included closets, bathrooms, etc). Next, subtract any volumes that lay outside of your apartment such as common stairways, halls, or other apartments. |