Tomorrow on The Inspired Room blog I am featuring an interior designer talking about finding beauty in every day life through good interior design. I can completely appreciate Sarah’s perspective on architecture through the same point of view. Why build houses that just don’t work for our lifestyle? Or that skimp on quality in order to have extra rooms you don’t need? It just doesn’t make sense. Sarah’s points are well taken.

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I love not only the beauty of the designs she presents in her books but also the efficiency therein. (A toilet paper cupboard next to the toilet? How ingenious is that?) There’s nothing more pleasing to me when form and function come together in one gorgeous package. I find a similar fascination (though the aesthetic is not as excellent) when I’m in a Waffle House or an Airstream camper. Apologies for making that comparison, but it all makes my heart race a little.

Finally, when I see a swath of trees being chopped down for another one of those “other” houses, I get nauseous because I know what it’s going to look like in thirty years time: unloved and full of Cape de Monte flower arrangements and a basketball goal in the driveway that is half torn down. Frankly, I’d rather see the trees. But a Not So Small House? Now that house–that quality–will be there to stay.