It seems so, looking at this video! Twenty-four rooms in 330 square feet?! Truly amazing when you see the video, but could you really live in it? Or more specifically, could an American, used to larger spaces in general, live in such a small space?
Interestingly enough, House Beautiful magazine's theme this month is "Is Small the New Big?" and features designer David Kaihoi's NYC one bedroom apartment that is 390 square feet. He lives there with this wife and daughter. It sounds amazing until you read that their daughter shares their only bedroom! How long can that last?!
The rich colors of this New York apartment made me feel like I was inside a Godiva chocolate, so warm and rich! Very different from the mirrored, stainless steel apartment in Hong Kong. Two such different approaches to small spaces! Do you think you could live in either of these spaces? Alone or with your family?!
Reading the Washington Post today, is an article of a family of five who lived on a small sailing ship for seven--yes SEVEN years! 24/7 with each other in a space the size of a standard hotel room. The father said as soon as they left their port in Maryland all sibling rivalry stopped...Hard to imagine!
Perhaps our larger spaces are leaving us more isolated....something to think about...
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