An Eccentric Living Space

I have been living in a small pad for years and if anything has been getting better at reusing the space over time. Here is how: Since I like to collect books, I try to stack them in a way that uses a minimal amount of space. I wouldn’t raise the height of the shelf to accommodate larger books as much as I would lay them in horizontally. The paintings that I had on the wall space now hogged by the books is now above and above the doors as well. Why just have a painting in the middle of a wall, I say. Why just use an easel to hold a painting and not a coat or hat?

I make more use of my balcony then I used to. Painting can be done outdoors so that gets rid of the fumes and I save space. Even if I decide to use the laptop, I can easily insert it into a plug near the balcony door and take advantage of the September air.

I would love to reinstall a bunk bed system so that I could insert a workspace under the bed or insert a couch for guests. The bed would be placed around a middle moulding. Somebody suggested I just get a futon and to hell with sleep!

If you are in a studio apartment, one space to use is what there is under the table. There I was able to place two plastic drawer sets, of the Wall mart variety. Funny that it took me several years to realize I could get rid of an unsightly space-hogging dresser with less practical use and just stick my clothes in a drawer beneath a tabletop.

The small eleven-inch screen television is now on my table inside of on the dresser top and it serves me quite well in spite of remarks about how red the characters might get from time to time. If it were larger it would have to be on a table of its own and then occupying additional space.

The under the counter fridge recently had to go and I replaced it with another one, the smaller the better for a one-person home. This has been used as a support for a counter top to cut veggies and stick a microwave oven. I got to be a lover of microwave cooking since moving in. Older relatives tell me that something will happen to me because of all the waves but then what about all the grease I have endured too. If you are stuck with no counter space sticking a piece of Arborite covered plywood over the fridge and another item like a wall radiator would construct an ideal counter.

I love the fact that I have a small bathroom that allows me some storage space under and behind the sit in tub. That would be for anything that has to do with cleaning the house, clothes and even have space left over for a tub of winter sweaters. Space then in a bathroom should not be neglected.

A little walk in closet offers convenient space to attach hooks of all sorts for clothes and there is room for a suitcase where I stick the clothes for the next season. It also holds all the props I use now and then for independent films, not to mention gym, camera and art equipment and all those extra towels you get from your mother because you need a dry one when your others are wet. Instead of just piling the items haphazardly grouping them in individual corners helps to conserve more space.