Is your apartment too small?We bet our heroine today has an even smaller one? You think it's impossible? Eight meters. This apartment is only 8 meters. And it has everything. Except for the bathroom. I wonder what it's like to live in an eight-meter apartment in one of the most expensive areas of New York and pay almost $1,000 a month in rent. Мэри Хелен Роуэл (Mary Helen Rowell) отвечает This question has been answered for two years now. Mary admits that during this time she has become an expert in transforming even the tiniest spaces into comfortable living spaces. The width of her apartment does not exceed two meters,There are no closets, just a few built-in storage systems, water pipes converted into hangers, and the owner of the apartment shares a bathroom with a neighbor on the landing. Mary admits that living in such cramped circumstances forced her to reconsider her ideas about the priorities of comfort. The owner of one of the tiniest apartments that we have seen shared five main ideas that help her overcome all the hardships of life in 8 meters and, oddly enough, feel like a full-fledged person.
1. Undercover work
Small apartments don't always have thisthe ability to hide unusable small items behind cabinet doors, so Mary recommends hiding wires, tools, papers and packages behind stacks of books, a CD collection and art (if there's room for them, of course).
2. Organizational marathon
Some books that help bring life toorder, advised Mary to "solve one problem at a time." However, in reality, this meant only one thing - unfinished business. The huge number of things that were waiting for their turn to be reorganized did not give Mary peace either day or night. There was only one way out - to develop a seasonal schedule for sorting out things. Each such multi-hour marathon included making difficult decisions, such as getting rid of "things that are out of fashion," "no longer liked," "that have served their purpose," and simply "unnecessary things." Saying "goodbye" is hard, but in conditions of an acute shortage of free space, it is absolutely necessary.
3. Speaking of farewell
Mary advises to repeat this word more often.If you want to live comfortably in a "box", learn to sacrifice the past. Empty photo albums, useless gifts, old and no longer relevant collections, monstrous retro like VHS tapes with graduation and the like, just accept it, it's junk.
4. Understand yourself!
Getting out of your comfort zone, where everything is always your wayrules, even if they are not good for you, are the best way to change for the better. Change is never easy, but if the future of your home and comfortable living in it depends on it, the efforts will certainly pay off. For example, this cute habit of throwing things on the bed or hanging them over all stable objects, does it somehow help you live, feel better? No. It is simply a bad habit, which can be replaced by a new one - always putting things back where they came from, and also washing dishes immediately after eating, cleaning at the same time and never leaving electrical appliances on unattended.
5. Live consciously!
In Mary's opinion, this call simply must finda response in the heart of any owner of a minimalist space. And the main thing here is not to limit yourself to pleasant little things, but to be aware of all your actions and consider each purchase primarily from the point of view of expediency. And, of course, enjoy life while you have such an opportunity. refinery29.com