Tiny Apartment designs - would you live in these??

[Carson Dyle]

When I was living in South Korea I'd meet families who were living in small studio apartments. I'm talking 4 and more people living in a very small area.

If they can do it I would like to think we could as well.

"Can you" and "would you" are two different things. I could live under a bridge in a cardboard box and wouldn't freeze or starve to death. I wouldn't particularly want to, though.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Two days later
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pyrogenic/330342304/

now that was funny!!

 

[JEDIYoda]

just don't understand what kind of lives these people have. Their only hobbies must be jogging and going to art gallery openings. Every night must be "Where do you want to go tonight? We sure as **** can't sit around this cracker box all evening."

that is funny too!!

 

[JEDIYoda]

Pretty much this. My storage space for my stuff is bigger than 350 square feet. As far as "youngish urban people," well, sucks to be them. "I'm going to live like a warehoused human whose sole purpose is to work and maybe someday have a life and 500 square feet to call my own."

My personal clothes closet is bigger than that...you should see the wife`s clothes closet and all her shoes..lolol

 

[Newell Steamer]

Waaaay to many moving, unfolding, flipping, opening, actioning furniture thingies; this crap will break in a few month's time.

 

[vi edit]

I could see the appeal for single urbanite's or somebody that does a ton of consulting and travels frequently. But for the other 95% of the population. No.

I give most of that stuff a few months of use before hinges, doors, pistons, ect...crap out and break on you. I think half my time there would be spent moving one object from side of the room to another so that I could move or use the space it previously occupied. Would get annoying fast.

 

[JulesMaximus]

That is pretty cool. I like the concept and totally would have lived in one of those when I was in my 20s.

 

[Hugo Drax]

What will happen is when those are built, they will get priced at the regular size cost. Then the existing larger apartments will have a big price increase.

 

[CPA]

When I was living in South Korea I'd meet families who were living in small studio apartments. I'm talking 4 and more people living in a very small area.

If they can do it I would like to think we could as well.

Uh, no. I couldn't and wouldn't.

 

[Vdubchaos]

nah couldn't do it now a days. maybe when i was younger i could. lived in a 780sqft condo with my wife for like 6 years and it started to get too small for us. now we're in our first house that is more than 3x that size and just not a chance i could go back to the small living lifestyle.

When humans have no choice, they DO.

You would do just fine.......sure you might have a hissy fit cause you no longer have a HT room, whooptie doo, you would survive if it came down to it and get over it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What will happen is when those are built, they will get priced at the regular size cost. Then the existing larger apartments will have a big price increase.

I can see it happen. The whole idea of these is to live minimalisticly at a minimal cost, but because it will be considered a perk, they'll just raise the price.

It's like all the houses they're building here, they look rather minimalistic, some don't even have parged foundation or other finishing touches or a sodded yard but yet they still sell for 200k+ because they're new.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

I've done it.

It's pretty nice actually. I'm not a very materialistic person, so I don't have much stuff. I've lived in a 130 sqft room quite comfortably for over a year.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Looks like too much work to make various uses of 1 room. That might work for a college kid, but your lifestyle would be better if you were living in Jersey and taking the ferry every day.

I'm still working on finishing my house, but it's around 3600 feet (mostly on 1 level)... I prefer that to squeezing into a few rooms and having to move unsubstantial furniture around to convert it into something else.

 

[Linflas]

lol I lived in a space smaller than that magenta sofa bed thing in that video when I was on a ship in the Navy, there is a reason they call them coffin racks.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I've done it.

It's pretty nice actually. I'm not a very materialistic person, so I don't have much stuff. I've lived in a 130 sqft room quite comfortably for over a year.

I would love to do it, and most likely will in the future as we are mostly minimalist as well.

More of a Tiny House though (or small house)......apartment + city is not appealing here.

Idea of being able to go/move whenever is awesome.