That's larger than my 1br apartment in Tokyi for a third of the price. Bet it's actually insulated, too!

At least you have no noisy neighbors sharing walls with you, but the downside is that if you have to blog about living there, it'll be super-simple for stalkers to get to you.

I always worry a little for ppl who do house tours etc... since now potential thieves know where all their things are. ^^;;

I specifically had to check for the presence of ikea, and was not disappointed!

130ft² = 12.077396m²

Wow, that is small. I could live there though, I'm a minimalist! (BTW, I do wish you would give measurements in meters/square meters as well as feet/square feet. You do have a lot of European readers, too!)

building codes in the US need to allow for this....for more than students-(Hello NC!)

That's about the size of my home and at least as cute!

Well, I like the concept as a dorm room, but it would be more space conservative to have spaces like this in a single building AS dorm rooms. (When you are a student, you don't have to have the stuff your life tends to require when a working adult, so the small space isn't the biggest issue.) As individual units, though, the footprint per person becomes too large.

So, ecologically, I am opposed.

(Also, as someone with disabilities, I support the disability access point, although perhaps just having a percentage of units with that feature reflecting the percentage of disabled in the population would suffice.)

That's a lot nicer than some of the places I lived when I was a student! I can see SherryBinNH's point about stand-alone buildings, though: wouldn't it make more sense in terms of heating, cost to build, and security for the residents to have this layout in a multi-unit building? This little stand-alone house would be perfect for a rural area, but in a city or town where density is key, it seems odd.

As a large scale project, yes it would take up too much land - but look at the parcel of land this cottage is sitting on - it would not likely be able to be used for anything else. I like the idea of tucking the little cottages into otherwise unusable spaces.

It looks well laid out - it's about the size of my dorm/apt in college but with better space use. A desk AND a dining table! Pure luxury. The hanging wine glasses are fun too.

Re: cottage or apartment building - I agree with the previous posters. If you have "left-over" space like in the picture, it has a quirky charm - if it were mine, it would gain a lot of flower pots quickly outside. But it would be more efficient and give a greater feeling of safety combined into a bigger buildilng.

I agree about the meter/feet conversion, that would be really helpful.

Aaaahhhh !! I LOVE IT!

i'd love in this. i do hate sleeping lofts, though, and i wish the "small home" movement would just say "ok, 50 more sq ft and you can sleep on the ground."

nice, seems larger than your average dorm room.

Much nicer and more storage space than any dorm room I lived in. It does seem like high rise dorm towers are a more efficient use of space. Are these for older students who wouldn't want to live with a younger (partying) student population or who live off campus?

I could see single working people who have embraced minimalism also embracing a space like this, it's a nice design.

The designers envision this as a stand alone dwelling, which would be a marvelous waste of space. Standard dorms take up less space thanks to a shared common area and the ability to go multilevel. I does look a LOT nicer than the dorm's I've been in: most are cinderblock walls with stark lighting and industrial slabs for desks. Now, if you used this as a model to make a dorm room, then you have something!

I absolutely love this idea of small, cozy and bright, it is so luminous, this plan could also very well work out as a small cottage in the country. I find this is the greatest Swede idea since Ikea...

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