What? All this for just $900 a month? Mais non, mon cabbage. It’s a sublet. C’est clair que you just get those two shelves in the middle photo. One for you to sleep all curled up cosy-like, and one for your stuff. Adorable!
Found By: Michael
Loveliest comment, by ann: why in the world would this person need the multiple dishes and glasses? I mean, sure, they apparently managed to squeeze in the one boyfriend for the photo session, but does anybody seriously think whoever lives here needs place settings for four?!?
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I wonder if the ladder to get up to the bed is included? And where is it stored if it is? But I really love how they pulled off the box spring’s underside covering so you have that lovely view when you are sitting at the desk. And then I saw the pictures of the outside of the building. It’s gorgeous! It makes me so sad that something that beautiful on the outside can be that unappealing on the inside.
The kitchen area makes me feel kinda woozy.
If I remember my high school French, the word for “cabbage” is “chou.” (pronounced “shoo.”)
And is that storage behind the shower, too? Ah, the French, so full of whimsy!
They’ve described it as a “mezzanine” bed (and not a scary, summer-camp-esque top bunk of death and/or concussions) – but, um, but where are the stairs/steps? Is this for tall students only, do you jump, is the ladder doubling as a bookshelf and you swing up monkey-style? Could you roll out of bed directly into the shower in the am? You could wash dishes from the shower!
Wait, where is the TOILET!?! That shiny new shower & spiffy little mini-fridge, internet access & cable, but you have to truck down the hall to #2? (since I would pee in the shower anyway)
“Young female student are welcome” – snort, I bet…..
When I was in college, and immediately afterwards, I slept on a top bunk that I reached by stepping up on a desk. It wasn’t so bad, really.
A toilet is non-negotiable, though.
What they couldn’t figure out any more ways to have an electrical appliance within spitting distance of a water source?
So anyone want to play death pool for either a) the tenant or b) the electrical equipment? Actually, the death of B from the shower steam is likely to save the life of A so there is that.
Steam and/or water + computer and/or electrical equipment = Bzzzt.
Great for a student! Learn about life and conductivity as you go!
My thoughts exactly….no need to find a way into the bed, you won’t live that long.
Weren’t they all going to France in Final Destination?
Coincidence? I think not.
see, right there you’ve made a faulty assumption: steam?!? I didn’t see anything in the listing about HOT water!
I’ve always dreamed of being able to shower, check my email, and get electrocuted all at the same time!
Is there a rope ladder? For the “mezzanine bed?” Perhaps a trampoline? Or a trapeze? Or…?
There is a stepladder that was to the right of the bed/shower.
http://www.mclv-photographisme.com/chambre-new-sevres-WEB/images/IMG_4673.jpg
If the roof-top view doesn’t make you dizzy, climbing up a wobbly stepladder at 3am after completing that last minute French essay assignment is going to.
It says “young female student are welcome.” Huh. No guys need apply? Older ladies? Only young and female? I wonder if big boobs are required too? That sounds really suspicious to me!
OK, I think I’ve got it. This room is the sublet in a ‘larger’ apartment. It is advertised to young females because only a young person could reach that bed, and only a woman would be short enough to sleep in it – but the clincher is that only a finicky young woman will wish to bathe – let alone be willing to pay additional rent for her own shower. (Which she will want when sees the facilities in the main bathroom, which she will visit only to do poopy when she cannot attend to this elsewhere.)
Oh, Paris – the mystery of age and the energy of youth!
Does the handcuffed man in the last photo come as standard, or is he extra?
This whole apartment looks like it folds up to fit into a box.
Hopefully occupant is not inside when this happens.
A sublet doesn’t even mean it’s part of a bigger apartment.
The minimum ‘living space’ to allow to rent/sell something as an apartment is 9m²/100 ft², and a lot of people can barely afford that.
That’s the joy of trying to live in/near Paris. The saddest is that 50 students would kill to live in there.
ps: as with older buildings /under-roof floor, the bathroom is probably in the corridor, shared by the tennants.
50 STUDENTS?! AT THE SAME TIME?! @__@
I’m getting sea sick just looking at these photos!
What I want to know is why the landlord put a time limit of 4 months on the duration of his stay with his sick “old mother.” Is he going to off her? Or does he just think that’s how long the first “young female student” will last before she electrocutes herself?
And I thought San Francisco was bad!
Now THAT is multi-tasking!
Is that the ladder peeking out from the corner behind the shower? or just a funny shadow?
why in the world would this person need the multiple dishes and glasses? I mean, sure, they apparently managed to squeeze in the one boyfriend for the photo session, but does anybody seriously think whoever lives here needs place settings for four?!?
Okay, it just needs to be said: would any people accept this as “living quarters” if they *weren’t* cheese-eating surrender monkeys?
how many small appliances can you fit into one, closet-sized space?
Surrender monkeys, really?
This would be a fun crash pad in Paris that would get you more privacy than a hostel plus your own shower, fridge and microwave as well as free internet and phone. For the same price as a nasty fleabag hotel where you’d get bugs and have your stuff stolen. Pretty sweet deal for a student traveler.
The thing that I really love about this listing is the sheer number of photos. 100 photos for a studio apartment of 7 square meters.
I know I would get confused and try to put my toast in the TV. Or a DVD in the toaster oven.
AND this is on the 7th (meaning 8th) floor, and the smart money says there’s no elevator.
AND the toilet is down the hallway somewhere. But of course, once you’re zipped into that bed, there’s no way you’re climbing out to pee in the middle of the night.
You wouldn’t need to. I’m pretty sure even girls could pee into the shower from there. Might be a bit perilous, but no more than being in the bed generally
I’m staying in a studio flat in Paris for a few days and it’s so small the double bed is actually a fold-away because it basically covers the entire floor area. It’s ok for a couple of days but I think I’d hyperventilate if I lived there longer. Or maybe I’d start to shrink… little by little, day by day.
Aha! You have finally solved the pressing dietary mystery of why the French don’t gain weight, despite their high fat diets!
They shrink as a way of surviving their real estate!
Move them to the average suburb in the states, and within days they will begin to expand to their real size of 532 lbs.
Eureka!
Is this what they used to refer to as an RBK? It is a room with a bath and kitchenette, right?
Oh, and I think it is sad that this person does not own anything that is not black, white, or gray!
ok everybody. no matter how small and goofy this place is, how many of you can walk downstairs and be in the middle of Paris? this place looks beautiful to me!
Ah, the modern shower room, “more than just a shower, more than just a room, more than a fusion of the two”.
http://worldwidefurniture.blogspot.com/2009/12/modern-shower-room.html