Why don’t I have this? WHY DON’T I HAVE THIS? You eat a snack in front of the TV, you put your plate on the floor, you grab your shuffleboard paddle and give the dish a good THWACK and it goes WHEE right into the sink. Ten points!
This also works for curling, but then you have to get your spouse (or date or pet or child or UPS guy) to work as the sweeper.
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What’s up with the stuff arranged in this place? They’ve got a really bad poltergeist problem here. Ikea Furniture keeps moving/disappearing in each photo.
I particularly like the tchotchke safety fence theyve lined up at the kitchen to prevent wandering children from falling off the edge. Apparently the room upstairs was way too much trouble to photograph.
What would be really neat is if the kitchen came equipped with water jets and on the weekend, you could just turn it into a hot tub.
I think it’s part of the agent’s staging training. The challenge: can you do the same small space 5 different ways?
Pictures ONLY of the kitchen. So this is what Belgians think about when they rent a house. My previous impression of Belgian domestic architecture was more like http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/html/ww_i_h_20.html
What’s under that raised wooden floor?
If this is in an apartment building, I would bet that the top of the loft of the unit underneath sticks up under the raised wooden floor. In other words, it would be oriented the opposite way of this one, so that the units interlock like Legos.
Wow. So your dinner parties would be just a couple of layers separate from your neighbor’s sleeping loft. I know space is at a premium in Europe but this interlocked business seems to carry density farther than necessary.
The windows of the bedrooms in my corner of our apartment complex look onto next door neighbors kitchen – for the whole four floors of the block in fact. There is nothing worse than being kept awake all night by someone’s overflowing kitchen or bathroom sink dripping onto your window ledge.
uh, wheres the bathroom?
I’m guessing about where those towels are hanging, in the loft area.
I think it’s behind the kitchen when you first walk in the apartment.
Usually they group the water pipes together, so that’s what I was thinking – there’s a door back there.
This is a neat little apartment!!
I assumed that door was the door into the outside of the apartment. If it’s not, where is the entrance door?
Not to mention the awesome loft, reminiscent of a tree house fort. Oh man.
I thought tree house too!
WANT.
Not practical, but fun.
Agreed. It’s eight kinds of awesome.
Doesn’t seem that weird to me. My sister-in-law used to live in a house with a very similar floor plan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The destroyer sees our kitchen!
Dive, Dive! 10º downbubble!
bowplanes down-angle! fire torpedos!
Pew pew pew!
I really thought the things hanging from the loft area were like monkey bar grips so you could swing into the kitchen. Now that would be cool!
And dang – to call that EAT IN kitchen is stretching the imagination.
Actually, I think this is awesome. But I would probably find myself too lazy to use the stairs to get into the kitchen.
It’s a creative use of very small space. . . is the door in the kitchen to the bathroom, or the hall. Oh, and I think we’ve seen everything but the bathroom, since it’s a 320 sq. ft studio. But wouldn’t you bang your head in the loft?
Not me – I’m only 4’11″. My feet don’t touch the floor on an airplane…
This would be a perfect space for me, but my son, who is 6′ 11″ would have a hard time here.
322 square feet – it’d be like living in a treehouse!
I actually really like it! I’ve always been a fan of unconventional room layouts, and this is pretty cool!
They show two different stove tops, so I would guess there is more than one flat available. All the same, I would hate to try navigating to the bed after one drink too many. I wonder what happened to the person who used to live there. They seem to have left their belongings.
Good eye! I looked again and noticed the steps going down toward kitchen were different colors. Thr photos are of 2 seperate apartments, thus the deco changes.
Looking at the actual website, there is more than one – the flat comes “furnished” (apparently there was s good sale at IKEA, so they just did them all) sort of like an like an extended stay hotel here in the states. Looks like they did one that is currently vacant and one that is occupied, so you can see for yourself how a few plants, a trash can, your dirty dishes & some beach towels can make it look JUST LIKE HOME!
My kids would never use the stairs to go down ot the kitchen, just jump from the “living-room” (right up until they broke their leg anyway) just like their bunk beds.
A curling reference! You’re cool!
Hurry, hard!
It’s very useful to have pictures that show the apartment both clean and messy.
When I move in, the first decorating priority will be to mount pictures of burning logs in those recesses. Voila! Fireplaces!
I wish they had pictures up in the loft!
Yeah, anybody else notice the price?
Egads, that’s nearly 800k for 322 square feet?
Is pot legal in Belgium? Because I’d have to smoke essentially a field of it before I’d pay that much for 322 square feet. Seriously, I’d rather live in a box, under an overpass, with a really smelly guy named Earl who converses regularly with his own coat.
’cause that price is every bit as crazy. Good God.
Maybe you’re shifting a decimal? It’s a rental, and it’s around $800 a month.
Mind you, if it *were* for sale, you probably wouldn’t be far wrong on the price.
I was, and I am so relieved, Jane, thank you.
I’m not talking to my COAT! That would be nuts!
I’m talking to the tiny alien in the pocket about whether now is the right time for him to take over the public restrooms of the world.
Ok I’ve been waiting for this house to get posted for a while because I have to say “I REALLY think this is AWESOME!” just think of it with all new marble countertops stainless steal appliances, some pendant lighting a wood floor in the kitchen, redo those steps, new better arranged furniture in the rest of the house, sure not a good Idea with kids around, but still awesome!
I had a coworker who lived in a house in the Netherlands with a similar layout (with a much better decoration, and some sort of stylish rail to keep the hildren from tumbling into it). The locals all sniffed that only foreigners would rent it, since it “wasn’t Dutch.” Maybe it’s Francophone Belgian?
I have seen just this sort of small, sunken kitchen before — on a 28-foot motor yacht. Didn’t get to use that galley, though — I wasn’t invited for more than a day cruise.
win.
I’m only going to go curling with the dishes if they’re something unbreakable like Corel (but boy, it sounds like fun!). And as much as I do adore this place, I wish the kitchen steps had at least a handrail along the wall: something to grip, at minimum.
My sister once broke a Corelle plate; the shock of the “unbreakable” plate breaking was replaced with a different kind of shock when the individual, broken pieces began popping up off the kitchen floor like popcorn. Apparently, if you break a piece of Corelle, it tries to cut you with the shards as payback.
True story. Don’t break the Corelle.
This is strange, I could swear that this apartment used to be part of a hotel that I stayed at in the 90s. I still remember the setup, it was weird but interesting.
Actually, it looks kind of cool. Only… where’s the door? O_O *runs around frantically* We can’t get out!
New from Ikea, the build-it-yourself apartment, with stylish “sunk-in” kitchen.
I’d be frightened of the dust floating down into the kitchen! Gross!
This is almost exactly how I picture Kinsey Milhone’s apt. in Sue Grafton’s books!
I don’t know about you all but I think this house is awesome…..
I want this place. Srsly.