{"id":30,"date":"2026-03-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/2026\/03\/18\/the-case-for-a-smaller-house\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:00:00","slug":"the-case-for-a-smaller-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/2026\/03\/18\/the-case-for-a-smaller-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for a smaller house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least once a year a client arrives with a brief for a bigger house and leaves with a plan for a better one. Floor area is the easiest thing to ask for and the most expensive thing to heat, clean and furnish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where the money goes instead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Better windows in the rooms you already have<\/li>\n\n<li>Joinery that makes small rooms work harder<\/li>\n\n<li>Light: daylight first, electric second<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we often talk clients out of the extension they came in asking for \u2014 and where the money goes instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-architecture-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}