faircompanies...Today the 420-square-foot space can be expanded to include the functionality of 1,100 square feet: walls, drawers and beds move and unfold to create 6 rooms: living room, dining room, office, guest office, master bedroom and guest bedroom. If you include the kitchen and the bathroom which morphs into a phone booth or meditation room, the apartment includes 10 total rooms.
To create the bedroom, Hill lowers his Murphy bed (designed by the Italian firm Clei-- see our video with distributor Resource Furniture: Space-saving furniture). He grows his dinner table from inches to feet. His office is a simple desk-in-a-drawer. The truly tricked-out element is the moving wall that is packed with storage (2 desks, drawers, closets, etc) and opens to create a full second bedroom (with 2 Clei bunk beds that fold out of the wall)*. Magnetized curtains close for privacy, both visual and acoustic.
It all feels very futuristic, and given the experimental nature of the project it wasn’t cheap. The hardware for the moving wall cost about $4,850- sourced from a maker of library stacks. Hill admits this iteration of the home is too expensive, though his long-term plan is to provide rental housing (via his company LifeEdited). And he’s open to people hacking his ideas.
