I've wanted to live in a small space for as long as I can remember. The house I grew up in was a fairly average 3 bedroom house of about 80 square metres. I grew increasingly frustrated sharing a bedroom with my messy sister, so when I was about 12, my parents walled off a small section of the living room to make a cozy new bedroom for me. At 2.5x2.4m it was less than half the size of the room that was now to become my sister's, but there was no question that I wanted the new small room.