She received notice recently that her interior design To recognize exemplary work in interior design as well as architectural, graphic,įashion and product design. ![]() New quarters in the International Design Awards, a competition established in 2007 “He worked nights and weekends and built my tiny home in hisĬhristened the “Luminaire Tiny House” because of its 14 windows, Adams entered her Wright on the Level, had never built a tiny home on wheels before, he was up for theĬhallenge,” she said. “Although my contractor, Ricky Wright of the company (Photo courtesy of Matthew Turlington Photography)Īdams came up with an interior plan for her tiny house over the following year, and ![]() The International Design Awards in the "green living/sustainable design" category. The interior that Adams designed for her tiny house won a second-place honor from Obvious that I would need to design and build a tiny home from scratch.” I set out researching tiny home layouts on the market and found that not a singleĮxisting layout offered even a portion of the items I wanted in my tiny home. That I decided to put my money where my mouth was and show them that it could be done. “The students told me that there was absolutely no way that a design couldīe created to accomplish my laundry list of needs,” Adams said. In the end, the students were unable to provide all those amenities in their design On my hands and knees into, as is quite standard in tiny homes on wheels,” she said. “Lastly, I asked them to include a master suite that offered a dressing vanityĪnd a master bed that I didn’t have to climb up a steep ladder to access and crawl She already lived, including a standard-sized refrigerator, bathtub, sofa, flush toilet,Ĭloset and washer and dryer a fireplace and guest sleeping loft to fit a king-sizeīed. To have them design a tiny home, where every single square inch of design matters?”Īdams proceeded to become a difficult client for her class, requesting that they designĪ tiny house with all the amenities she enjoyed in the 1,100-square-foot home where ![]() What better way to hone their space planning skills than They were quite intrigued by the idea of designing Tiny home for my permanent residence and mentioned it to my students in my ‘Interiorĭesign 255: Space Planning’ class. ![]() “Several years ago, I had been toying with the idea of designing and building a custom In a 3,000-square-foot home,” Adams said. That bigger does not always mean better design and that not everyone needs to live She constantly urges her students to create interiors in a socially responsible wayĪnd to educate their clients about sustainable building options. Of space on the Tuckaseigee River, and she’s also the recipient of an internationalĪward for its sustainable interior design.Īdams, associate professor and coordinator of Western Carolina University’s interior design program, has been a practicing interior designer for more than two decades. Now, three years later, Adams is getting ready to move into her new 265-square-feet (Photo courtesy of Matthew Turlington Photography)Įrin Adams used to have aspirations about moving into a tiny house, and she had bigĭreams of what she wanted her small-scale abode to be like. Erin Adams custom-designed her tiny house that is parked alongside the Tuckaseigee
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