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This is partly inspired by ReadyMade magazine's small space issue from January.

I've always lived in really fucking small apartments, and I even lived in small old 50's travel trailers on two different occasions. I'm going to look for a new place, and 1) It has to be in a very urban place 2) It has to be $500 or less a month and 3) I don't want to live with any fucking roomates.

So it will be another very small place. I've decided to accept the challenge and really work with it, Japanese-style, instead of grumbling and complaining about wanting more square footage, American-style. But I want to go into the design before hand, insteading of just stacking up milk crates; I want to get out of the punker/dorm room aesthetic that I've carried unwillingly these last few years.

So here's where you give me space-saving design ideas, products, as well as tips for reducing clutter.

― andy --, Monday, 18 April 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

That was a great issue!

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it was inspiring to see people really getting INTO small spaces, like that Japanese guy that lives in a 200 sq foot storefront with $150 A MONTH RENT IN TOKYO which is insane. He parked his car in his living room.

― andy --, Monday, 18 April 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

Unfortunately I don't have any advice to give. Real Estate is incredibly cheap here and I've got a very large one bedroom apartment in the middle of downtown for $475, so space is not an issue. Get a place with high ceilings and go vertical.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Monday, 18 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

- murphy bed/dining table

- stackable chairs

- all storage units should go all the way up to the ceiling

- when you move, throw out anything you haven't used in the past year

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

Make sure the building you're moving into has a storage space in the basement.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Rip all of your music to a large harddrive/ipod and sell back all the bulky CDs/cassettes/vinyl to the record store.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Monday, 18 April 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

narrowboats. have a look at the things they do in narrowboats (or any small boats) and see if they are appropriate - they have years of experience of living in small spaces. see also: caravans and spaceships.

(in Firefly i noticed they had all their food stowed away in those trolleys on wheels that they have on planes.)

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:39 (twenty years ago)

Do you need a TV? TVs take up a lot of room and if you have a computer you could get a tuner card in place of it.

― Zebra, Alpha Go! (cprek), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

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