How would you arrange/decorate your 100 square foot apartment?

[Liberal_in_LA]

You think your apartment is small? Think again

Part of what makes these photographs so compelling is seeing how cleverly the homes' residents have used their tiny spaces to go about their daily rituals and stash their belongings.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ontheblock/detail?blogid=58&entry_id=52304#ixzz0YesbafIY

http://photomichaelwolf.com/100_x_100/





97 more pictures at the link

[tekisui]

1. Wow. Fascinating.

Thanks for posting.

[hobbit709]

2. I've been in jail cells bigger than that.

[MineralMan]

3. Years ago, I designed a 10'x12' shed building to use as a

workshop. It had a 12' inside height at one end and a plain sloped roof. I built a 4' storage shelf on that end.

A friend saw it, and asked if I'd build one for him as a room for a teenager. I did it, with his help. The bed went into that loft area, and we even managed to get a small kitchen unit and a toilet and sink in it's own screened-off area.

So, adding the sleeping loft, which had 4' at one end free for storage, we ended up with 160 square feet of usable space. The teenager was very creative in setting it up and furnishing it, and was the envy of his friends for having a space not connected to his house.

I remember thinking at the time that a small village-style collection of those buildings, arranged creatively on the space, would make a terrific college housing deal with single occupants. I'd do them as 12'x12', though, so you could squeeze a shower in there, too.

At the time, using premium materials, like clear redwood tongue and groove siding, the cost was surprisingly low, not including labor. The second one was completely finished in one week, with two of us working, including pouring and curing a concrete slab, done earlier.

I can see two people sharing a unit like that, but they'd have to be pretty friendly. I imagine there were two in that teenager's unit from time to time...

[murray hill farm]

4. Check out this site.

http://tinyhouseblog.com If that doesn't get you there, just do a search or tiny houses, etc. Some great homes in very tiny spaces. Very cool.

[Thickasabrick]

10. I love those houses!!! If I had some land and some money I would

totally move into one of those.

[MilesColtrane]

5. Would those be about 3k a month in Manhattan?

Those places are so small, you'd have to go outside to change your mind.

[TheMightyFavog]

6. 100 Square feet?

That's smaller than the dorm rooms I lived in back in college. They were 10'x12".

[Toucano]

7. The extension cords in the top one concern me a little.

All of my life, I have always occupied the smallest portion of whatever space I inhabit.

I only recently realized this.

My house now as a living room, dining room, kitchen, 1 1/2 bathrooms, large bedroom and a walkin closet.

I spend 90% of my time in the bedroom, and maybe 5% on the balcony.

The rest is just space for things. Things that I have to clean! :)

So, I could probably be happy and functional in the spaces exhibited here.

[Liberal_in_LA]

19. Me too. She's working that one outlet

[Scurrilous]

8. A nice rug could really tie that room together.

:thumbsup:

[leftstreet]

11. lol

:thumbsup:

[ipaint]

9. My husband and I live in a 250 sq. ft studio apt. with a small patio.

We get along fine. You really can't be selfish.
Lots of big stuff and the space needed to store it never appealed to me. Neither did the housework and upkeep.

Google vandwellers and boondocking. Lots of folks live in small spaces here in the US.

[Solly Mack]

12. Wow

[hunter]

13. I lived in a space like that for a little over a year...

...it was a small shed in a crazy Viet Nam veteran's side yard. I can call him crazy because I was a hell of a lot crazier than he was.

I decorated my shed with weird stuff I found; bits of old machines, interesting rocks, magazine pages, and other things like that.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. I lived in a 12x12 guest house

for several months when my oldest daughter was a baby. I had my single mattress on the floor, her little crib, and a wooden rocking chair. The cabin was built with window seats, so I kept all my "stuff" stacked neatly there. I cooked on a hot plate. The toilet was a deep hole out back. I took a shower now and then in the main house.

It was spartan, for sure, but since I had been couch-surfing with friends for a while, it seemed like a palace.

[Arugula Latte]

15. But everyone NEEDS a 4,500 sf house with a three-car garage, right?

[Liberal_in_LA]

20. That's so 2006... if you watch HGTV reruns

[Arugula Latte]

24. I loved it when "house hunters" went into a master bedroom that's,like, 1500 sf

and said things like "Oh, gee, I don't know if our furniture will fit in here." :eyes:

[Fumesucker]

16. I live in an 8 x 22 foot camper, that's 176 square feet..

Has all the amenities, shower, bath (although you can't lay down in it), double sink, stove top, sleeps seven in a pinch but I'd have to move a lot of stuff for that. The only thing I don't have is a regular oven although I do have a microwave.

I do have some storage in a shed but if I wasn't such a pack rat I wouldn't need that.

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. cool. pics would be nice

[Xithras]

17. My master bedroom is bigger than that.

Incredible.

[Liberal_in_LA]

21. Mine too but I definitely could live in a smaller space

[tabasco]

18. I'm very comfortable in small spaces.

I live in a small cabin.

[flvegan]

23. I'd have an 8' x 8' bouncy castle.

Well, you asked.

[Silent3]

25. I might have a little trouble...

...finding enough room to set up my home theater in there. :)

[Canuckistanian]

26. As long as I have walking space around the pool table

I could live anywhere.