When I moved over my apartment, I had only a desk and a chair in my bedroom, and I ate on a tray atop a paper box. Since I love space most, it was comfortable for me, and if I did not force myself to buy furniture, I would still be eating oh the paper box. Now I have a TV cabinet, sofa, and light stand. and a small wooden table. That's all I have. My clothes and books, tools, and other all items are put into the closet. Since my closet is almost full. I won't get anymore. In a sense, I adjust my life to the capacity of closet.
Japanese houses are said to be as small as rabbit houses. (As far as I could tell, many European houses seemed to be of a similar size to ours.) So people make all kinds of effort to make space inside their houses. Then we have a various types of interspace furniture. Look at this page; this is only 15cm width (that's less than 6inches). And "How to store" (hover your cursor above each picture) is always a popular topic in house magazines and on TV show. Actually there are some "storage advisers". Hiromi Honda is one of them and here is her HP. Yeah, some of them looks like nice ideas. For example, attaching towel hungers to the backside of a shoe box, you may put slippers there. Using Cabnets with wheels inside the closet, make it easy to pick up everything, no elieminating dead space. Under the sink, tend to have a lot of dead space because of the drainpipe, but this idea looks good.
However I am not sure I want to use tape to keep small sauces like this, or hand small food bags of food on the side of my refregiatore like this.
For North American people, this is funny??. We have to creat the space because the land is so small.
I don't need much space. In fact, I feel my studio apartment is big enough for two people. I'm glad to have it though.
Posted by: Wolf | Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 10:18 PM
Hi robert
Ha ha ha Sorry. just you are funny. I am not sure, you seem to enjoy acting like Oyaji.
Hi David
Arigato. If this land is big, we would not have such furniture or idea. But still Japanese would try to fix the things.
Hi TC
Some people can relax being surroneded things. My friend likes a room like a cockpit. (of course not cool like that, he can reach TV, PC, beer, instant ramen, socks etc,. )
Hi Charles
Ha ha no car in garage? 25box of book. Ah actually why the Englis book is so big? As you know Japanese bunkobon is 2/3 of the English paperback.
Posted by: Mari | Wednesday, April 06, 2005 at 07:48 AM
funny, yes. But in a "that's ingenious!" way. Space efficiency is definitely to be admired...although some of those were "over-the-top" but still clever.It's important to conserve, and an expression of this can be carried into our daily lives in this manner. An uncluttered room is like an uncluttered mind. It provides the area for something to occur. Not only that it's great when you get your phreak on...more room to thrash about like a wild animal......uh..please disregard that last part. (¯____¯) heh heh...my oyajiness is nearly out of control. I overheard some younger girls talking about me the other day..( I have really good hearing for an old guy) I was about 50 or 60 ft away and they said "look at that old guy with the long hair" (hey I'm growing it for a good cause okay??!!).."ooh he looks like Mr Burns(from the Simpsons)." the other girl said.."No more like a fat Michael Bolton." .....
my playboy image shattered I just wanted to go home and cry into my pillow, but it had a headache..just my luck.
Ah Time you are cruel to the male ego!!! CURSE YOU!!!
hehx-uhlent ®rz
Posted by: robert | Sunday, April 03, 2005 at 03:05 AM
Very cool -- I love organization and storage creations! I have always read that Japanese homes are rather small and that residents often use clever techniques and furniture to organize well. I only wish that I could do a better job of organizing in MY house!
Posted by: david | Sunday, April 03, 2005 at 01:37 AM
I am single with a 3 bedroom house and I still can't fit all my clothes and shoes and stuff inside the many closets and cabinets. I guess people tend to buy more than necessary when they think they have space...
Posted by: TC | Friday, April 01, 2005 at 08:13 PM
My house would drive you crazy. I used to live in a huge artist's loft in an industrial building, the elevator was big enough to lift a car. Now I have to cram all the stuff that filled my loft into my tiny house. I have 25 boxes just of books sitting out in the garage since I have no place to put them, and I've probably acquired 10 more boxes of books since I moved here. I have a full darkroom, a 8x8 foot worktable, huge paintings, and more stuff I can't even get in through the door so it's all sitting out in the garage. The only thing NOT in my garage is my car!
Posted by: Charles | Friday, April 01, 2005 at 02:24 PM