I lived for several years in a lovely studio-like apartment-dorm abomination (shared kitchen) and enjoyed it greatly. After that I moved in with my fiancée and we now live in her single-room flat with a nice kitchen, a wonderful and large glazed balcony etc etc. It's nice but there are two problems we haven't been able to sort out to our satisfaction:
1. We can't seat very many people
2. There's a huge frickin' bed in our livingworkroom.
We love the bed, and have no serious plans for moving to a larger apartment in the immediate future. It's a dilemma, but we've finally decided on a fairly reasonable solution, namely to get the best sofa-bed we can find at a non-insane price and move our small two-seater out to the balcony. It's not the easiest task in the world, finding a sofa-bed that checks all the important boxes without being ridiculously expensive, but we've found one of the right size and the right design with ridiculously comfortable pocket-spring mattresses and I think we're gonna go for it.
Anyway, this has gotten me thinking about compact living for the first time in a while. I love [reasonably] compact living. It's sensible, it makes good use of space, it involves modularity and hinges and hydraulics and other mechanical funsies, it's challenging in an entertaining way. It can be very beautiful, in the same way that fighting (or embracing) constraints make art and design beautiful.
So I thought I'd start this thread in which we can celebrate compact living and share pictures, ideas etc I realise most of you live in large wasteful chaloobs but still