We
thought Felice Cohen’s 90-square-foot
New York apartment was small. And then we saw Luke Clark Tyler’s place.
Tyler
lives in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen in a studio apartment that measures a
mere 78 square feet.
He
calls it his “Midtown
Mansion.”
Tight?
Sure. The hallway-like space is too narrow to fit a bed lengthwise. But this
architect is no stranger to tiny places — he moved to this apartment after
deciding to downsize from his previously non-spacious 96-square-foot one — and
built his own transformer
furniture from $170 worth of Home Depot supplies to make the most of the
limited square footage.
Tyler’s
digs are an economical choice for New York, with rent totaling just $750 a
month.
Cons
to living small? He has to share a bathroom with other tenants. He has just a
small bar fridge, and his cooking is all done in a microwave.
Tyler
claims living small is no sacrifice, telling
Apartment Therapy that what he loves most about his apartment is that “it’s
simple, efficient, convertible, and zen enough to be comfortably habitable.”
“Having
lived in both the largest shelter in the Southeast as well as the largest slum
in East Africa, I don’t think living small is a challenge. So we can call it
anything; a room, a hallway, a live-in-closet, but to me it’s just home,” he
told Fair Companies.
See
more — including the floor plan — at Tyler’s website.
It
makes Eric Schneider’s 450-square-foot
“origami” apartment look absolutely spacious.
How
small would you go?
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