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The Align Project:
Align Your Space
What if we optimized our living spaces to create
a home that’s 100 percent useful?
BY JULIET GRABLE
VERY YEAR IT’S THE SAME REPORT: New homes in the U.S.
keep getting bigger, even as the size of the average household
shrinks. Though the rate of bloating has slowed in recent years, new
single-family homes still averaged 2,457 square feet in 2017. And
we’re lling those homes with stu, much of it bought on credit.
If our homes were smaller, would we be forced to simplify? By
giving up space and things, would we nd ourselves with more
time—and possibly more happiness? Kasita founder and CEO
EJe Wilson thinks so, and he has the experience to prove it. He
spent 2014 living in a 33-square-
foot dumpster on the Huston-
Tillotson University campus,
where he was a professor.
“I wanted to compress space
to its ultimate limit and see if one
could be happy owning things,
rather than having them own
you,” says Wilson.
The value of space is one of
the questions we decided to
tackle with The Align Project, a
joint partnership between Green
Builder Media and Kasita, an CREDIT:TREKANDSHOOTISTOCK
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Austin-based modular home-
builder that specializes in the Maximum overload. Many families use their garages for overflow
optimization of space. storage, while their cars are kicked to the curb.
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