Tiny, well-designed apartment is snug, cozy

Seattle's Steve Sauer (a former Boeing interiors engineer) has done up his 182 sqft apartment over two levels, with cleverly segmented nooks and crannies for different uses. It's as snug as a houseboat, and looks like it'd be a great place to live: "I wanted to compress my home to squirt me back out to the community.That was one of the philosophical reasons. I want to be able to shop daily, not store a lot and eat really well."

Tiny apartment shows the value of a good fit

(Image: BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMES)