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by wodenokoto 1630 days ago
If you get a kick out of optimizing small apartments, check out the YouTube channel “never too small”.

Before you decide to move into a super small, space optimized apartment look around your current place. Is it always super neat and tidy? You need to be making your bed every day and put away your furniture all the time in order to make many of the tiny apartment designs work.

https://youtube.com/c/NEVERTOOSMALL

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I love that channel. I still think small apartments suck though, as is "moveable furniture".

It only works as long as you're doing one and only thing at a time. If that space is shared, be prepared to move away and clean everything when you commit to the other activity which takes the same space. It only works for a very small number of activities.

Said by a person using a bunk bed to reclaim extra floor space.

I’ve been looking for something like this for a while thanks!

However, what I was ideally looking for was tours of houses/apartments which are heavily optimised interior decoration-wise, but also massive. Sort of like the intersection of the $XX million dollar apartment tours that exist, but instead focused more on the interior design. I enjoy the novelty in watching really expensive houses, but they always feel sparse and terribly designed (interior-wise). Maybe nice to look at, but not practical at all.

I honestly haven’t watched the rest of the channel, but the house tour of Binging with Babish’s home tour seems to fit what your looking for. Since the channel is named something to do with architecture all their tours might focus on the design and not the expense of it all.

https://youtu.be/ua0-5FZ2Eww

All the so called "small apartment" are medium or large size by Hong Kong Standards.