Italian architect, Piero Ceratti has some great design ideas.  His h_18 home is a stellar example of compact, stylish, modern habitation.

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The question: Why aren’t home designs like this more popular?  Is it the fact that, in America success is defined by excess and every family member including Fluffy the Shitsu needs 1,500 square feet of living space to feel fully self-realized?  In the U.S. we’re surrounded by mile after mile of bloated subdivisions stuffed full of giant, cookie-cutter McMansions.  Someday, “smaller” will indeed be deemed “better.”

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