The Goleta Design Review Board met Tuesday and supported the changes to the plan for a self-storage facility at 7780 Hollister Ave. Some neighbors have opposed the project and called it incompatible ...

With the rise of small houses and dense cities, we were forced to sacrifice a good amount of storage space. Ironically, we did not compromise our purchasing habits, so with a few square meters to work ...

Blake Schwieters doesn’t like the term “man cave.” “Car condo” doesn’t cut it either. The upscale storage units Schwieters is building in Hugo are an “equal-opportunity space,” he said. “What we ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. Alternating tread stairs are terrific for saving space; you only put one foot on a tread at ...