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It’s no secret that I love these little terrace houses. I love the way that people live their lives in homes that are only a few metres wide. How do they cram in all their “stuff”? Do they look cluttered? Is it necessarily a spartan life or a hoarder’s horror? I wouldn’t be able to resist stalking this powder blue end of terrace with its perky red door if I was walking past in real life. What’s inside? Can I peak through the window? Thank goodness for virtual stalking! Come on in. Let’s look around. The link for this Surry Hills, Sydney home is here while it lasts.

Sunshine streams in through the stairwell of this teeny, tiny Paddington, Sydney home. Stylish living in a space that is barely 3.5m wide. It’s the tiny gems I like the most when I’m real estate stalking. Link here while it lasts.

First home buying in Australian capital cities can sometimes mean sad, down at heels 70s apartments (or 60s or 80s… you know what I mean). Cheap and often larger than their modern counterparts the temptation is to paint, change the flooring, slap up some white tiles in the bathroom and figure out how to fit in an IKEA kitchen. Not in this case. Here’s how you bring the 70s right up to date. Not your everyday cookie cutter first apartment. Stalking a funky pad in Armadale, Melbourne. Link here while it lasts.

A long, narrow, one bedroom apartment in a complex with great facilities. So often the private space pales in comparison with the public areas. But the girl with the pearl earring seems to have settled in a stylish pad. 80 m²and in most part only 3.2 m wide. Slick finishes, mirror and drama. Stalking an apartment in Redfern, Sydney. Link here while it lasts.

Down at the end of the garden is where you would normally find a folly. But how can you call a garden library a folly? Created by Czech firm Mjölk Architects, this fibreglass and wood box provides a reading room, a sleeping floor, a perch to observe your literary kingdom and of course books, glorious books. My head is swimming with possibilities. Just where in my garden will I place mine?