Small Home Tour: Eva + Kyle in 640 sqft

This small home tour was a moment in preparation. I finally had the opportunity to take pictures of the charming apartment of East Vancouver of Eva and Kyle. Eva is a talented photographer (and designer of events and global creative), so I was very nervous to grop around her with my camera! Kyle even taught me to better use the settings of my camera! And then we had the cold meats on their charming patio. Will accept many more small home visits if they are all like that, haha. Anyway! Kyle and Eva made a typical layout of the 1 -bedroom wooden bedroom apartment and really completed. Happy to share too many photos (sorry, that’s what’s going on every time I take them) and Eva’s encouraging ethics for the little life.

Intro:

EVA works in public health in drug addiction and homelessness; Kyle works in air quality and climate. You can find them @eva_mcm And @kyle_mchowe .

What is the size of your home and what is the layout?

640 square feet + 401 square feet

Who lives there?

Eva and Kyle and our geriatric dog McKee

A view of the dining room of the corridor

Tell me about your choice of living small. Was it a conscious decision or did it change?

We moved to Vancouver after Kyle finished her masters and I started mine, both living my salary as a camp advisor 15 years ago. Needless to say, we had an extremely limited budget, but it was associated with a strong desire to live near the nightlife and the agitation of the city and a hint of identification as Bohèque artists, then we found what looked like a dream dream to praise.

As we lived in our loft more and more, he began to have the impression of living small alignments with our values, in particular with our global environmental footprint. We ended up spending 10 years in an attic without room and I loved and 1.5 years in 800 feet with a room that had never had the impression that we belong. We never almost wanted to give up living in the city for more space, we like to be next to restaurants and animated streets for people who look and the concert halls and all the funny things that being in a city allows.

When I think of living small, I think of the way you have to be prudent to collect things and how comfortable you need to let go. When I was 5 years old, my family took a break from our property where my father was building our house. Everything we had was stored in a hangar and when we came one morning, everything was gone. Jewelry, skis, VHSES, scarves and even the front door. All.

A few years later, my mother wore our plates in a potluck and slipped on the ice and broke all our dishes in an instant.

And I think it could have made it difficult to abandon things, but instead, it taught me to see it all as transitory. I cherish things while they can be precious, but things are just things. They may be here tomorrow, but they may not be, so I especially agree to let things go.

Dreamer’s corner of coffee with the espresso machine I looked (ed. Note)

How would you describe your house style? Ex) modern, minimal, bohemian, vintage?

Cariboo Japandi

Apart from the pinning of everything that falls in the Japandi category on Pinterest, we had the chance to spend short but incredibly inspiring moments in Denmark and Japan and we wanted to imitate the style and the prudent heat that we saw there. However, no matter how much I try, there is always something in our place that ends up having the impression that it is the house that I grew up in 75 acres in the cariboo (Northern BC)

My father was a wooden shop teacher, so I grew up learning to appreciate wood. There dad and I have built a lot of furniture that I have, so in fact, many of that does not remind my childhood house, it is actually the furniture.

Is there a piece of furniture or an accessory that you could not live that makes life easier in your space?

Our folding table facilitates the modification of the configuration of our house and despite the fact that it is not necessarily the style to which we are most attracted, we can no longer convince ourselves that it is worth it to change it. We do not have storage units in our building and so we have always had storage under the bed. This bed is lifted without drawers, which means that we can store things like camping equipment, ice skates and Christmas decorations.

Baskets, baskets and more baskets. With the lids and without them, they can be exposed but filled with damage and nobody can say it.

Dining room and then converted into office space that they delete at the end of the day.

I love this entrance filled with baskets! Forgot to move My trench out of the photo.

What do you like in small life?

We can invest in most of the things that enter our house. We could not order the lamps, plates and illustrations we have and cherish if we were to provide more spaces.

Sheepskin on the desktop chair is so simple and intelligent! (Ed. Note)

What do you hate?

There are certain things that we must have that are also ugly, such as a portable CA conditioner and yoga carpets, but there is almost no space to hide them. We would like it to be easy to put things without worrying about having to play Tetris with all the bits.

We are both naturally very disorderly and in a small space, one thing out of words can give the whole house that you live in a disastrous explosion so that we have trouble making it feel beautiful and habitable.

I think small spaces must stay together and share all their best tips.

Do you have storage or organizational advice you want to share?

In addition, I know that you both work at home. Can you share how you do this?

During the pandemic, we both ended up working at full time in a 650 square feet loft and the first two months were an absolute nightmare, but we finally used.

Our house has become an office for two, an exercise gym, a movie theater, a place to call friends and gossip, and essentially everything we wanted to do. It is at this point that we really learned the importance of moving the furniture each time an activity changes, we fold the table and stacks the tables of Ca ﬀ ee and in one minute, our house is a gym. We take up to 5 minutes and take out the computer screens, and keyboards and keyboards and took out the ergonomic chair in our room, then our dining room is the office. Computers return to the cupboard and the chair gets a beautiful Icelandic sheepskin thrown on it and now it becomes a comfortable newspaper in our room.

We both agree that our room cannot be a place where we stress at work, and we put ourselves at the end of each day, in this way, we relax at night without working to look or to divert ourselves.

If we do not do things, we had to find a wider space for our lifestyle and that would prevent us from having the budget that we want for things like travel.

The other higher point? Noise cancellation headphones. Has changed everything for us.

We like to travel, but sometimes people say they can’t say while looking at our space – but it’s ok for me. When I receive things from the places where I travel, I try to make sure they are very small and / or useful, they end up surprising me with joy every day. A small fork of bone in the plant, a special plate, subcontracts … things only when I use, I am brought back to the place where I bought them but do not clutter our little place.

Can you share some of your favorite places that support Living Small? For me, these are the nearby parks, community gardens, co -ﬀ ee stores, the beach, the community center. I love to hear others.

Having our own outdoor space is the most magical thing in the world, but before that, it was a nearby park