Posts by James Walker

Cooking in a small apartment kitchen means doing constant math. Can the cutting board fit next to the coffee maker? If the drying rack moves, does the toaster have to…

Your bed swallows most of the floor. The "dresser" is a chair buried under laundry. Getting to the window means turning sideways past the corner of the mattress. A small…

You've done the shuffle. Sideways past the coffee table, hip against the armrest, apologizing to a guest who's now wedged between the sofa and the bookshelf. Your living room isn't…

You've probably stood in the middle of your living room, turned in a slow circle, and wondered where everything is supposed to go. The sofa sits too close to the…

My apartment had a living room that measured 10 by 11 feet. I crammed a full-size sofa, two armchairs, and a coffee table the size of a kiddie pool into…

I lived in a 400-square-foot studio for three years. My "dining room" was a folding table that doubled as my desk, my craft station, and occasionally my ironing board. So…