Because someone commented on the size of our new apartment, I decided to calculate our square footage. This turned out to be more complicated than I thought, because no agreed-upon standard exists. But I borrowed the guidelines used by New York City Realtors and measured the size of the entire area, including exterior walls but excluding stairs, which are not considered habitable space (although closets apparently are habitable). The grand total is 425 square feet, although apparently 75 square feet should be subtracted off, because when the ceiling slopes lower than 6'6" it's not considered habitable anymore. (Andrew would agree, since he still hits his head almost daily.)
This is pretty small - the size of an average mobile home is now over 1000 square feet. We can be grateful, though, that we don't live in London or New York or Tokyo, where our apartment would be even tinier, but even more costly.
4 comments:
what is that in meters?
gonna answer my own question: 40 m squared. Small-ish for two people, perhaps. gotta go back and read the logic that persuaded you to take it originally.
Och! You live in a spacious abode by Tokyo and NYC standards! You would probably fit in another roomate in your spacious walk-in closet. It would also probably fetch about $1000 or more.
Any home that is your place is a good thing
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