apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Looks really familiar!

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/small-cool-2007-entries/28-daniels-idiosyncratic-little-pad-021866

Also featured here:
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/thumbnails/0,,1629897,00.html

does anyone know where I can find a magazine wall hanger like the one on the back of that door? It's perfect for my even tinier studio.

Lots of stuff, yet everything looks pulled together so well! (This is achieved with similar colors/textures/aesthetics.) Wonderful job!!

A small home is a chance to live with less...or not. B-minus.

I appreciate the innovation in storage here, but there is just way too much stuff, and this home would look a thousand time better after 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 weekends of stoop sales.

Does anyone try to get any good ideas out of these posts or are you just looking at the pictures?

I still think it's hilarious that someone found these pictures on flickr from a guy who found them via Apartment Therapy. I have a crush on this apartment, it has a lot of great ideas and innovations. FYI: You don't have to use them all at once if you don't want to.

cawatson - the mag holder is from Pottery Barn, but not sure they sell it anymore (it was hot a few years back). I see it on Craig's List every now and again, but it's still not cheap. Ikea's got a similar-ish one - not quite as burly or accommodating (though they hold a surprising amount of mags), but good-looking nonetheless:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20118174

so how big is the apartment?

This studio is small, but repeatedly referring to it as "teeny" strikes me as a little disingenous.

i agree with gordon especially with three closets.

maybe i'm missing something but the back of what door? i am very curious about the wall-hung bathroom storage though ... if anyone has ideas on what that is - I'd be supremely grateful. I currently do my toilette on the tiny landing outside my bedroom door as i have no bathroom storage.

TheGoodBiGirl - Thanks, I've seen it once on CL but it got away from me.

Joan--mag rack is not on a door. It is through a doorway which has a tabbed curtain over it, in the photo that has swatches in the lower left corner. According to the floorplan, it must be in the office.

This homeowner has a major capital investment in shelves.

I only just noticed the piano!

This looks just like a unit I tried to buy a few years ago on the UWS of NYC.

If the aim of home design is to store a lot of stuff effectively, then this is a good example - a lot of stuff neatly stored in a relatively small space. But it still looks/feels like a lot of stuff. Does anyone really need this many bits and bobs? Such a big TV? The overall effect feels claustrophobic to me - one of the pleasures of living in a small urban apartment is getting rid of the piles of superfluous stuff that people collect in the suburbs. Sure, there are ways to fit all this suburban flotsam and jetsam into a "teeny" city apartment - but then you get all the drawbacks of a small urban space (ie: smallness) and none of the benefits (ie: beauty, simplicity, freedom from unneeded accumulated things, empty space to think and live and be).
This space is cleverly organized. But it looks/feels like a cleverly organized bunker; like a big-space person/family has squeezed all their stuff into a tiny space because they HAD to, not because they were enjoying the advantages of small-space living.
My two cents.

You know, isn't it great that we are all different and that is great. It's called freedom. Some people love all of their stuff. Good for them. Maybe this person works from home? Maybe crafts or hobbies at the end of a long day at the office? Relaxes with TV? Whatever. This place is filled with good ideas for organizing the love of stuff in a smallish place. We might just remember ONE or TWO ideas for ourselves.

I do agree that this is far from teeny.

"You know, isn't it great that we are all different and that is great. It's called freedom."
A good point. Likewise, we're all free to put in our two cents -- especially on a blog like this, where posting an image/house tour/whatever amounts to an invitation to comment and discuss.
Lately on AT, there's been an "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" resurgence. I agree that we should phrase our comments, negative or positive, politely. But "say nice things or shut up" doesn't equate to free speech. I've learnt a lot from AT arguments/critiques/rows, and i'd hate to see them go for the sake of a bland "anything goes, everything's relative" niceness.
My two cents. That makes four.
Mel.