I like to think that the sad resident of this place eventually found love and moved in here. Awww! Sweet. Life-threatening, but sweet. Now there are two folding chairs, not just one, and they even get burners! No oven… Hmmm. Maybe they’re waiting until they’re married.
Found By: JP
Loveliest comment, by Jano: Carrying a few extra pounds would be a fatal disorder. It would be a shame to die in a tragic balcony-dining room collapse. Cause of death: metal fatigue
NOTE: The Belgian chocolate might be worth it, though.
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Is the picture with the rolled up mattress pad supposed to be a bed?
That’s a futon, and if you look carefully, you can see the frame it’s resting on.
Definitely a futon. In the two unfurnished apartments I rented, I owned a wooden-frame then a steel-framed futon. The wooden frame just had a couple of circular chocks to keep the backrest up. Just push them out and instant bed. The steel-frame one was a bit trickier in that there were two heavy duty steel springs which forced the backrest into the vertical or horizontal position. Trying to stretch the springs to get “sofa mode” was like working out with Mr. Universe as a personal trainer.
Though the advantages of a futon are that it can be simultaneously be used as a sofa, bed, table, bookshelf, CD collection rack and newspaper rack, all at the same time if necessary.
Yeah, but the downside is that it always wants to be a bed and a sofa at the same time, no matter how much you try to make it flat for night time it always has a hump in it somewhere. And stubbornly tries to lie down during the day. Very glad I’m not a student pauper anymore and can afford a proper bed and totally separate sofa. My sofa however is perfectly adept at multitasking and being a table and cat exerciser at the same time
That’s nothing. I once stayed in someone’s very small NYC apartment where the kitchen faucet swiveled in such a way that it would run water directly over the 2 burner stove. At least in this apartment there’s some space in between. Now that’s what I call safety!
memo to self: never move to Brussels…..
I’m getting a 404 error on the “this place” link, Sara.
Boy, claustrophobia would clearly be a fatal disorder in Brussels. Those are places are wee.
Fixed! I hope.
Carrying a few extra pounds would be a fatal disorder. It would be a shame to die in a tragic balcony-dining room collapse. Cause of death: metal fatigue
NOTE: The Belgian chocolate might be worth it, though.
Would this be an argument for waiting til marriage to live together?
“Honey, be careful; your wine glass is right on the edge of the table, and you KNOW how that red wine stains.”
“Honey…Honey? HONEY!! See there? When you jump like that, you spill your wine all over the downstairs neighbor.”
Oh this is nothing, nothing compared to the horrors I have seen this past month! I visited an apartment that had no bathroom. I repeat, no shower nor bathtub. When I asked the real estate agent how somebody had possibly lived there the past twenty years, he opened the cabinet above the kitchen “sink” (which is really too strong a word since it was just a RUBBER TUBE) and pointed to a bucket. I have photo proof if you like! Two days later the ante was upped when I saw a listing for an apartment WITH NO TOILETS. I politely declined to visit.
What? No. Yes, I would like to see that. Well, it’s not so much that I want to see it, but I feel like I should.
Ok unfortunately in my photo the cabinet is not open so you can’t see the bucket, but you can see the “sink”. I’ll send it your way (I emailed you a listing a few days ago that also had no bathroom…and no floors…and no anything really). Oh the joys of looking for an apartment in Paris =)
And here I thought the house I saw was bad: half bath with shower, toilet, but no sink!
Call me crazy but if it doesn’t have a toilet its not an apartment. Its not even a “room for rent” unless you have access to a shared toilet and sink.
Am I right in thinking that the place with toilet but no sink also had carpeted floors in the bathroom?
Why yes, did you see it too?
And then there was the other bathroom–same house–with an extra door opposite the toilet. Open it and you find stairs which are the only access to the third bedroom/study. Kind of a weird upstairs/downstairs perversion of a master suite, but the effect is spoiled since you have to enter the whole thing through a bathroom.
Welcome to the joys of Paris real estate! Many of the older buildings built in the 17th-19th century pre-date modern amenities like bathrooms or heat. The shared bathrooms were on the stair landings between floors, and even today the top floor apartments that were originally the maids’ chambers might not have their own bathroom but share the ones on the palier. The apartment with the bucket was just that – a top floor apartment. But at least it had a toilet! I’m not sure about the one with no toilet nor shower…and I don’t really want to find out either.
This kitchen is roomy compared to the studio apartment my daughter had in Buffalo. Her two burners were right next to the sink, the refrigerator was under it and the oven was above it instead of a cabinet.
I do love me a kitchenette!
Yeah, but that is a little beyond petite and bijou kitchenette even
Okay, that is 107 ft2 for the low, low price of USD$807 per month. I think that place even has it over NYC on the “value” scale!
Mom says: “That’s what Eauropean apartments look like.” And she was being serious. Really. Serious. :/