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I'm currently living in a studio apartment that is laid out a lot like a hotel room; in fact, I'm pretty sure it was once a hotel room at one point, but they offer a month-to-month lease for a little over $500 per month including utilities, so it's a decent price place that successfully meets most of my needs.
Here is a brief description of the room, walk in the door, there is a sofa bed, folded, directly to your left by the wall. To the right is pretty much blank space, except for a little of the dresser. Walk a little further, and you will reach an end table and a sofa bed, unfolded, also to your right. Across from it is the rest of aforementioned dresser. A little further down is the chest freezer that I've been using for a kitchen counter and food storage unit; I think there is something wrong with the refrigerator, so I haven't been using it and have been storing all of my perishable food in the freezer. Across from it is a kitchen table, about the width of a card table. Across from the kitchen table is a small partition setting it apart from the kitchenette area. Further down from the kitchenette area is the bathroom, a separate room, and the closet and sink area.
I think I know what I want to do. I want to visually break the space into a small bedroom area and a living room area. I have no need of a dining room and can take my meals in the kitchenette area, using the chest freezer as a makeshift table. I plan to move the actual dining room table out, because I have no room for a dining room, and it is just taking up space in the bedroom / living room.
I'm not sure what to do about the dresser, though, because it is also the TV table and computer workspace, although I really do most of my work on my laptop. I've thought about moving it to the space I'm going to designate as my bedroom, but it's rather large; I'm not sure it would fit. Plus, that would leave blank space in the new bedroom area.
Also, unless the policy has changed, I'm free to decorate the room any way I want, within certain weight restriction limits. Of course, I can't knock down walls or anything, but I'm free to move and replace furniture with prior consent.
Instead of a board to divide the bedroom/living areas, you could use a bookcase with shelves facing the bed. Don't forget to weight the bottom shelves so it doesn't fall over!
You could go full-on Japanese and do shoji screens to divide space and floor futons for sleeping that you roll up in the morning and set to the side of the room.
Instead of a board to divide the bedroom/living areas, you could use a bookcase with shelves facing the bed. Don't forget to weight the bottom shelves so it doesn't fall over!
That does give me some ideas, but take away too much walking space, and I might as well be in an RV, and I don't like the amount of living space in an RV. I need more than 18 inches of walking space, but I still love some of those decorating suggestions.
What do you think I would need? I want to divide the room into four small spaces; bathroom, kitchenette and dining area, living room, and bedroom. Right now, the kitchenette and the living room kind of blend into each other.
.. Is it weird to be almost thirty and like sleeping on bunk beds?
Um, yes, it is.
OP, you are almost 30, you live in a studio apartment, and you would seriously consider getting a college student as a roommate? That is very bizarre too ...
But more to your questions ... can you post a floor plan or photo(s) of what the place looks like now? Floor plans are really useful.
OP, you are almost 30, you live in a studio apartment, and you would seriously consider getting a college student as a roommate? That is very bizarre too ...
But more to your questions ... can you post a floor plan or photo(s) of what the place looks like now? Floor plans are really useful.
I'm a big kid, but I do see the difference between me and 20 year olds. I guess I like being the older and "wiser" person around to advise.
Attached is a picture of the layout. It should be super simple to decorate, but I guess sometimes I have very little imagination.
The bed, though, has been replaced by two sofa beds, and the dining room table has been moved closer to the kitchen. Other than that, it's pretty similar to the floor plan in the photo, except there is no island; the kitchen kind of just fades into the living room.
I think this is pretty close to the actual room layout, but the items are not drawn to scale. I don't really have enough room for both a living room and a bedroom, and I didn't like having the bed out all day, so I replaced it with two sofa beds, but that, of course, is taking up more floor space than I had hoped. I may replace one of the sofa beds with a daybed and trundle in the corner.
There is also a huge dresser that takes up a good portion of the floor space (it came with the room). When the sofa bed closest to the dining room is extended, it takes up almost all of the walking room and almost touches the dresser. There isn't a lot of room between the dresser and bed.
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