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Small Space Style

Because You Don't Have to Live Large to Live Beautifully
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Small Space Style by Whitney Leigh Morris offers an elegant and practical guide to living beautifully in under 400 square feet. Drawing on her personal experience of cohabiting with a husband, baby, and two Beagles, Morris provides over 200 tips for designing efficient, stylish tiny homes—from rustic retreats to chic urban micro-apartments. The book focuses on key living areas like sleeping, eating, and bathing, sharing smart storage solutions, clever custom built-ins, and ways to entertain in compact spaces, all illustrated through home tours including Morris’s own Venice Beach cottage.
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This book is ideal for home enthusiasts, tiny house dwellers, urban apartment residents, and anyone seeking practical yet stylish solutions for limited living spaces. It suits readers who appreciate a blend of interior design inspiration and hands-on lifestyle advice for making small homes feel spacious and welcoming.

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Interior design maven Whitney Leigh Morris makes living in under 400 square feet look elegant and effortless—even with a husband, baby, and two Beagles in the mix.

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Interior design maven Whitney Leigh Morris makes living in under 400 square feet look elegant and effortless—even with a husband, baby, and two Beagles in the mix.

In her debut book, Whitney shares her ideas and practices for making any tiny space efficient and stylish—whether it’s a rustic A-frame in the woods or a chic microapartment in the city.

Featuring more than 200 tips for making the most of your little home, Small Space Style is the must-have, incredibly inspirational guide for living large in compact quarters. Join small space lifestyle expert Whitney Leigh Morris as she demonstrates how to keep clutter to a minimum, craft double duty layouts, personalise chic storage, go vertical when surfaces are limited, DIY clever custom built-ins, and even entertain a crowd within confined square footage.

With chapters centred around the essentials—living, sleeping, eating, and bathing—Small Space Style features real-life examples from Whitney’s own delightful and sophisticated cottage in Venice Beach, California, as well as home tours of some of her favourite tiny houses, micro apartments, and beautiful, efficient small spaces.

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Praised by Amy Adams as a rare talent with an eye for both beauty and functionality, Whitney Leigh Morris is celebrated for creating warm, welcoming interiors that defy typical small space stereotypes. Designer Justina Blakeney applauds her borderline scientific approach to design, noting the careful curation and infectious optimism behind Morris's work. Reviews highlight Morris’s effortless, bohemian California cool style and mastery of maximising every inch without sacrificing charm.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681882949

Publisher: Insight Editions

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 October 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Weldon Owen, Incorporated

Illustration: Full colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Small-space lifestyle expert Whitney Leigh Morris believes that we don’t need to live large to live beautifully. She chronicles her family’s daily life in The Tiny Canal Cottage, a 1920’s bungalow in dreamy Venice Beach, California through her blog and Instagram account (@whitneyleighmorris). The Cottage is under 400 square feet, and is not only the home of Whitney, her husband, their toddler, and their two rescue beagles, but it’s also the couple’s full-time office.

Whitney’s sage and stylish advice on how to live comfortably and contentedly in compact quarters has landed her in numerous media outlets via features and/or as an expert contributor. Her advice has been shared via Today, Domino, Apartment Therapy, Refinery29, Cosmopolitan, Design Sponge, Lonny Magazine, My Domaine, BuzzFeed, Architectural Digest, The Huffington Post, Good Housekeeping, House Beautiful and many more. She has worked with notable home brands including Anthropologie, Target, CB2, Pottery Barn, Macy’s, The Home Depot, Wayfair, and several more.

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