Not your Grandma's murphy bed...Is this the house of the future?

Linon Luxor Folding Bed (Google Affiliae

Will these Tiny Apts that Bloomberg is proposing take off?

New York City Extols Virtues of Tiny Apartments

Jack Sproule tries out a fold-down bed in a 325 square foot model apartment at an exhibit called "Making Room: Models for Housing New Yorkers" at the Museum of the City of New York in New York, Jan. 15, 2013. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)

Read Full Story Here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/nyc-extols-virtues-tiny-apartments-18281708

Take a peek at the latest "shoebox" apt

Property Porn Of The Week: A Super-Designed 200-Sq. Ft. Shoebox Apartment

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Click for full photo gallery: Inside A Super-Designed 200-Square Foot Apartment

As of 2009, the median home size for the typical urban household in the Northeast was 1,500 square feet, according to the National Association of Home Builders. And in New York City even that much space can be hard to come by. Take the $345,000 apartment for sale at 344 West 12th Street. The West Village studio apartment is barely200 square feet in size.

You might expect to find a cramped, cluttered dorm room of a home encompassing such humble dimensions, and if we were talking about my former digs (I actually inhabited a 225-sq. ft. studio for two years), you would be correct. But the difference between this tiny unit and, say, my former 1970s-era shoebox unit, is that this one is designed right.

Read the full story here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbrennan/2012/01/23/property-porn-of-the-week-a-super-designed-200-sq-ft-shoebox-apartment/

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I brought you the 90 sq ft apt in an older post. Meet the 78 sq ft "apt" in NYC's Hell's Kitchen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4FoAr8i26g&feature=player_embedded