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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sinéad Stubbins

Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes

‘I love things that are small. I want to fold myself up into sixteenths and place myself into an envelope and post myself off in a tiny letterbox’: the appeal of pint-sized chambers.
‘I love things that are small. I want to fold myself up into sixteenths and place myself into an envelope and post myself off in a tiny letterbox’: the appeal of pint-sized chambers. Composite: Guardian Australia

I’ve been invited into the homes of architects in Buenos Aires, voguish designers in Hong Kong, community organisers in Sydney and writers in Paris – except that I haven’t, not really.

Really what I’m doing is watching episodes of Never Too Small on YouTube. Never Too Small is a media company that makes a magazine and an online documentary series dedicated “to small footprint design
and living”. To me, Never Too Small is “the company that makes my favourite television show, which I watch while eating toast”.

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