"What's the secret to living large in small space? For Paul Denys, it's all about making the most of what you've got. Since 1990, the award-winning designer, renovator and owner of Denys Builds Designs has called a 500- square-foot English cottage-style bungalow in Ottawa's Rideau Gardens area home sweet home with his wife, Jean, and 14-year-old son, Nathan. The cozy house, built in 1944, reflects Paul's philosophy of living with a small ecological footprint. He recently gave Ottawa At Home a tour of his home and described the many small space solutions that prove less definitely can be more." Read more

by Kristin Harold