RV nomads offer street-tested advice on outfitting small spaces | Lifestyle

As a longtime editor of Real Simple magazine, and as a person who has lived in a small apartment in New York City for years, I know quite a bit about the outfitting of a small space. But with the recent popularity of nomadic life (RV, Airstream, living on the roads of vans), I thought. Is it better to give advice on living in a small space than people who have lived under 200 square feet for months?

I talked to three women. Melanie Labor, a San Diego-based interior designer and mother of three young girls. Lindsay Dorty, a college student in Burlington, Rhode Island. Brooklyn-based writer Jessica Bruder is the author of the award-winning book Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century, which was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Nomadland. They set out on a journey for a variety of reasons, but the lessons they shared are very synchronized. As Labor says,…