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IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m2 apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.
It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.ikea.com/jp/ja/campaigns/ca00-tiny-homes-pub616dcf20
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(Score: -1, Redundant) by BK on Sunday November 28 2021, @05:06PM (7 children)
So, a normal apartment then.
In NYC they’ve been renting much smaller spaces for as long as apartments have been a thing. Even in suburban markets, 750 sf “2 bedroom” apartments exist. The only gimmick is the $1/mo.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday November 28 2021, @05:29PM (4 children)
its 10 square meters, not 10 meters by 10 meters.
So these are about 107 square feet.
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(Score: 2) by Beryllium Sphere (r) on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:48PM (3 children)
Still bigger than a prison cell but the same order of magnitude. Current US standards call for 6.5 square meters, legacy cells still in use are 4.5.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday November 28 2021, @08:44PM
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday November 28 2021, @10:21PM
A modern prison cell is approximately 10m^2 in Sweden. There may also be some furniture from IKEA, there probably is.
https://www.kriminalvarden.se/om-kriminalvarden/123-fragor/#faq13316 [kriminalvarden.se]
Still as I mentioned I don't think this would be for me, ladders around the flat. I think one of the images showed the bathroom and it had a ladder in the shower. So I wouldn't want to live there permanently.
That said for a buck per month I might still rent one if this somehow became a common or real thing. If nothing else it would be a very cheap storage shed or area. Or a small office or workbench area.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday November 29 2021, @02:39AM
My travel trailer, where I lived comfortably for 25 years, was about 140sq feet. It was also a lot more space-efficient than any of these designs (I'd joke that it had 8 rooms and three floors, depending on which way I was facing). But I've noticed that the travel trailers from its era (1961) were a LOT better at utilizing the available space to max out what could be done with it. It's almost like people in those days needed to do more with less, so they did it better.
However... I bought it from a married couple, and hell if I can see how they managed to stay out of each other's way.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 28 2021, @07:23PM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by deimtee on Monday November 29 2021, @06:45AM
In his defence the article switches several times between ten square metres and ten metres square.
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