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Tiny houses are spreading across the world—and probably because it really just makes sense. The tiny home lifestyle is the ultimate application of creative resourcefulness, and allows residents to reduce their environmental footprints without sacrificing good design.

In the living room, spare Scandinavian design takes center stage. Hans Wegner’s Wishbone chairs surround an Essay dining table by Cecilie Manz for Fritz Hansen; a mostly wood palette is enhanced by slate-gray brick around the fireplace. The paper lanterns throughout the home are a mixture of classics by Isamu Noguchi alongside those picked up in Japan and France.

The horizontal aluminum slats that make up the reflector screen help cut down on glare as light flows through the front of the home. Interior walls are the canvas for a delicate movement of light and shadow. The screen, explains architect Paul Raff, "creates a beautiful pattern of reflections that shift across the space minute by minute, and hour by hour."