Nicole Alvarez

It was the first time that I thought about how a small space and a person’s lifestyle and routines could influence each other. I quickly realized that what I loved most about living in a small space was the way of living that inevitably followed. It’s a small home, but it’s plenty for us at our current life stage, with room to grow. By choosing place over space, the city becomes my home, the community my family, and there’s so much more room to enjoy life.

It was the first time that I thought about how a small space and a person’s lifestyle and routines could influence each other. I quickly realized that what I loved most about living in a small space was the way of living that inevitably followed. It’s a small home, but it’s plenty for us at our current life stage, with room to grow. By choosing place over space, the city becomes my home, the community my family, and there’s so much more room to enjoy life.

This past year has been quite an eventful and exciting year, which has obviously distracted me from my blog… I’ve been focusing on my Architectural Registration Exams. We are currently working on some of Raleigh’s most exciting and influential projects: Union Station, Stone’s Warehouse, Chavis Park, and more. Coincidentally, Matt and I were living in a Clearscapes project, The Hudson, making for the most pleasant commute ever: a 2-1/2 block walk from city center to the warehouse district. With a recent feature by IKEA Family Live Magazine and being included in another small space article, I’m reinvigorated to continue to explore.