As its name suggests, One-SQM-House is a house with one square meter of floor area. The house can be turned on its side to serve as a bed or lounge, or in its upright position, as an office or on-the-go meeting place.

Wheels are attached to the base of the One-SQM-House to ensure maximum portability. Van Bo’s idea is that your home should follow you wherever you go.

The plans for One-SQM-House are being given out by the designer for free. This do-it-yourself house can be made using only everyday tools and materials. The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless has started an initiative getting homeless youth to build their first One-SQM-House.

If you want to try living in the One-SQM-House in Berlin, you can send your request to Van Bo on Airbnb.

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6-A: Take a used pillowcase to clean the ceiling fan and keep the dust contained (via On the V Side)

#6-B: Reuse milk jugs as pencile holderse (via Easy Homestead)

#6-C: Fold your shirts instantly using this method (via mushk45)

It’s a shelf that can serve as a bookshelf, coat rack, and even a bike rack. If you let your imagination go, it could probably do a lot more.

At first impression, Fusillo may look like just an ordinary solid piece of shelf but it’s actually made up of smaller sections designed to rotate around a central axis. The shelf can be also moved up and down to serve as bookends or hooks.

Glad’s Trash Bag Tent is a one-person tent made from Glad ForceFlex material. During the festival, it provides a temporary place to rest in, and when the festival is done, it turns into a large bag for the trash you have collected over the course of the event.

Samples were handed out through the help of Miami-based advertising agency Alma, at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, TX last March. The tents were provided for free, on the condition that the recipients would throw their trash away in this bag when they leave. The case study turned out positively.

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#5-A: Fold your chip bag in this way to self-seal it

#5-B: Use nail polish to protect your shirt button from coming undone (via Real Simple)

#5-C: Use a magnetic tape to hold metal grooming tools in the bathroom (via Superwoman )

While occupants work their way for a better future, these temporary homes will serve as a stepping stone towards independence. The details of the design are going to make all the difference in ensuring these containers transform into dignified living spaces.

These shipping container homes are to be equipped with a kitchen, bathroom, and plasterboard walls. They are to be built in multi-storey blocks, with balconies and external stairs to the upper levels.

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It features a maple top, steel interior components, and an insulating wool sleeve. Like the name suggests, the product is made in Portland, Oregon with sustainably sourced materials.

A common concern for glass french press sets is that if the glass breaks, you’d have to replace the whole set. With the Portland Press, the mason jar glass is thicker and if it ever breaks, you can easily replace it.

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#4-A: On your jog, keep your keys and money on a binder clip and clamp it to the waistband (via RealSimple)

#4-B: Use rubber bands to prevent clothes from falling off the hangers (via Green and Classy)

#4-C: Use a post-it note to clean your keyboard

Shoes Books and a Bike is a storage stand that, as its name implies, can store shoes, books, a bike and all kinds of other stuff. It is made of clean simple materials such as pine, screws and coconut fibre.

It features a large clip that holds the bike in place, so there’s no need to worry about the bike falling off the stand.

Speed Chess is an interactive game played in just minutes by up to 16 players on one board. The only thing that could slow down the game is the players’ ability to quickly enter a command into the SNES controller.

The game starts by having each player move a pawn. If they get captured by an opposing piece, they respawn as one of the leftover pieces. The goal of Speed Chess is to capture the opposing side’s king.

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