LifeEdited 2 (LE2) is a new prototype for apartments in future LifeEdited buildings. It lets you live a big, happy, smart, green, simplified life in a 350 sft apartment that functions like one twice it’s size. You may have already seen it -- it’s on the cover of the November 2016 issue of Dwell.
LifeEdited began in 2010 when Graham Hill, founder of popular eco website TreeHugger, crowdsourced his 420 sft New York City apartment. It demonstrated the “less but better” lifestyle by creating a beautiful apartment with the functionality of a much larger space. LifeEdited 1 (LE1) seats 12 for dinner, has proper sleeping quarters for 2 guests, a great home office, a home theater, and is extremely energy efficient. With its own TED talk, two NYT features and coverage by many major media outlets, it is one of the most widely published apartments in the world.
LifeEdited 2 (LE2) was completed in 2016. At 350sft it is smaller than LE1 but amazingly manages similar functionality. It graciously seats 10 for dinner, hosts two in a guest room, and has a great home office. Our approach to achieve this:
-A room that transforms from bedroom to living room to dining room to boardroom
-A room that transforms from home office to bar to guest bedroom
-Resource Furniture transforming furnishings including a Penelope murphy bed/couch, a Passo coffee/dining/boardroom table, and two New Concept fold-down desks
-More transforming furnishings including a Hufcor accordion wall and a set of LifeEdited-designed couch segments / guest bed manufactured by Resource Furniture
-Life simplifying technology such as Insteon lighting controls, an automated August lock, Amazon Echo voice control, Apple TV, and Kanto speakers
-Energy savers such as a BigAss Haiku fan, Hunter Douglas motorized blinds, Plumen LEDs
-Water savers such as stylish Kohler fixtures, a Smeg dishwasher, and a Franke water filter
-Security & health tools such as a Nest Protect, a Nest Cam Indoor, and a Blueair Sense air filter and Aware sensor
-Texture and richness from a herringbone oak floor, walnut cabinetry, Filzfelt wall, Lithoverde marble, KBH mirror, Santimetre ceramics, Anne Sacks penny tiles, Resource Furniture velvet couches, Smeg appliances, all tied together with brass and leather details.
Interested in buying or renting this apartment or others like it? Contact us at
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A massive thank you to all that helped make this a reality:
Design: LifeEdited
Architect of Record: Guerin Glass
Build: Composite Fabrication
Expeditor: J. Callahan
Extra special thanks to Andrei Butusina, Catalin Sandu, David Friedlander, Andrew Skey, Scott Glass, Shawn Ruddy, Jorge Faz, Bill Byers, Casey Martin, Leah Solomon, Jayson Halladay and the Resource Furniture crew.
Big thanks to Sean Sliger, Joanna Sjostrand, Adam Finkelman, Francesca Michel, Lloyd Alter and the TreeHugger crew, Lawrence Hudson, Wing Deng, Sokol Hoti, 150 Sullivan’s board and Paul Brensilber of Jordan Cooper,
And all others without whom the project would not have been possible!.
