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On the Market: Classic New England Colonial Stocked With a Yoga Studio

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If it's not totally obvious from looking at the photos, according to the brokerbabble for this home in Fairfield, Conn., "the floor plan has been opened up," leaving the 2,700-square-foot interiors looking all the larger thanks to the lack of furnishings. The four-bedroom house, located in one of the town's "most sought after beach neighborhoods," was built in the late '70s and has 2.5 bathrooms, a backyard deck with access to the renovated kitchen, an in-ground pool, a tool shed, and what the listing text calls a "finished dance studio." Since "yoga studio" sounds way tonier, let's call it that; the property hit the market about a month ago for $899K.

· 42 East Paulding Street, Fairfield, Conn. [Zillow via Zillow Blog]

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Video Interlude: Watch a Modest 450-Sq-Ft Studio Unfold Into Four Rooms

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Sustainable-design site Fair Companies—they who brought you the 16-year-old who built a 130-square-foot house and the 78-square-foot apartment—is at it again, this time with a 450-square-foot Manhattan studio that was worked up by Normal Projects architects Michael Chen and Kari Andersen, who turned a basic white box into an unfolding, origami-like creation. The duo constructed a blue multi-purpose closet that seemingly eats space but instead affords it, serving as a bedrooms, office, closet, entertaining area, and more. "I spent my first year out of college reaching in Japan, so I think Japanese sensibilities influenced my sense of space a little bit," explains Eric Schneider, the third-grade teacher who lives here. "This kind of works, this compact way—this is very comfortable for me." In total, Schneider spent $70K on renovating the apartment (including an overhaul of the bathroom and kitchen). "How do you get more out of something smaller without having to make big sacrifices?" he muses. "You'd hope that something like this enhances someone's life—that it doesn't just make things less better." Watch the full video tour below.

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· Tiny origami apartment in Manhattan unfolds into 4 rooms [Fair Companies]

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Linkage: Willem de Kooning's Studio; "Ikea for Barbies;" West Elm; More!

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Under 500K Club: Problematic Marina Studio Is Packed Full of Charm

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Friday, May 20, 2011, by Sally Kuchar The difficult news: it's a short sale. Make sure your agents has expertise in negotiating a short sale if you're interested in this place. Moving on… it's a studio apartment in the Marina. It's been on and off the market and for almost two years, and we're quite smitten by it. Look at that pink bathroom! It's adorable. And at $410,000, it's the newest member of our Under 500K Club. At 547 square feet, we think it's fair to call this studio a large unit or perhaps even a junior one bedroom. Hard to say without floorplan porn. There's 1-car parking in the garage and monthly HOA dues are $400.
· 2701 Van Ness #405 [Redfin]

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Office Spaces: If These Walls Could Talk: Studio of Charles and Ray Eames

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Photo courtesy of Courtesy Gestalten/Co.Design

Today Co.Design publishes a terrific feature on The Story of Eames Furniture, Marilyn and Jon Neuhart's painstakingly researched new tome that sheds light on every single piece of furniture ever created within the the hallowed hallways of Charles and Ray Eameses' design studio (above). Food for (ever so humbling) thought:

"When someone such as Yves Behar talks about a simple office chair being an 'epic challenge' that required 10 years of practice to even contemplate, they're responding to the legacy that Eames created, with their fanatical devotion to ergonomics and function. Sit in a shell chair or an Eames lounger; feel the way it seems to intuit your posture and bone structure. That's the truest statement of the remarkable process that lived in just a few rooms, in a California studio that created the modern furniture industry."

· The Definitive History of the Eames Studio, and Its Works of Genius [Co.Design]
· A Brief History of the Most Important Chair You'll Ever Sit On [Curbed National]

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That's Rather Lovely: Meet the Artists' Studio That Tiptoes on Rocky Terrain

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Contemporist highlights one of the most oddly beautiful live/work spaces we've ever seen, a work by architect Todd Saunders of Norway-based Saunders Architecture. Commissioned by The Shorefast Foundation and the Fogo Island Arts Corporation, Saunders set out to create a series of six artists' studios on Fogo Island, off Newfoundland, Canada, thereby "rejuvenating the island through the arts and culture." The studio's elongated bulk is divided into three parts, each representing a different season. An open but covered area denotes spring; a fully open central portion, summer; and the enclosed main body, fall/winter or the colder months. The seaside end is propped up by pillars; a small concrete foundation provide support on land. Sniff, sniff, what's that whiff of prefab? Yep, these can be constructed off-site.
· Fogo Island Studios by Saunders Architecture [Contemporist]
· Saunders Architecture [official site]

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Linkage: Colorful in Chicago; Mini Studio in San Fran; Whimsical Spaces

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