Manhattan's newest 'smallest apartment': Architect lives in 78-square-foot abode
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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