Never Too Small is an Australian magazine dedicated to compact living, small-footprint architecture and intelligent interior design.

Issue 9 is all about ideas — specifically, how small homes can work harder without becoming generic or over-designed. Cover stars Studiomama bring their playful, inventive approach to compact spaces, including the kind of transformations that turn very limited square metres into genuinely liveable homes.

Elsewhere, the issue looks at Spanish interiors where bold colour and glossy ceilings reshape small spaces, alongside shape-shifting furniture, inventive IKEA hacks, sculptural lighting and resourceful ways of reusing everyday materials. The emphasis throughout is on practical inspiration rather than prescribing one ideal way to live small.