Small Homes With Big Style

Inspiring décor ideas are featured in Fifi O'Neill's new book on making the most of limited living space.

- DANI GRACE

Homes come in all shapes and sizes but sitting on the smaller end of the square-footage spectrum shouldn't force a sacrifice in design or creativity.

In her latest publication, Small Spaces, Big Appeal, Fifi O'Neill discloses "the luxury of less"-or the advantages of packing practicality and personality into a living area that lacks large room space. Smaller homes are becoming more popular as society considers environmental impact and housing costs, and there is also a greater desire to rely on fewer physical belongings to better connect with people and places.

"Contentment comes not in amassing things but in being selective about including only the most useful, beautiful and meaningful ones," O'Neill writes in Small Spaces. "Though the homes in this book are small, their owners have big dreams, which they have realized by choosing creativity over conformity!"