Trick for hiding a shower in 240 sqft NYC studio
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Name: Austin Larkin
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Location: Hells Kitchen, NYC
Size: 240 sqft
Type of Home: Studio Apartment
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You know, kids in the tub and I can still keep an eye on the soup? Sounds great to me. Lol
Now you're thinking with portals!
This made me feel fuzzy ❤
Yeah, let's not glamorize this shit lmao. I live in the Netherlands and the housing situation is wild. The kinds of houses I visited when househunting... Reminded me of this. It's hilarious but it's not fun to live in. Being young you make do with what's available, but this should never be the norm.
@neldormiveglia1312 you're right. This is so unhygienic
@@dshe8637it really aint
How tf is a bath or shower unhegynic to have near food
Its like a sink
Its not like they have the toilet next to the kitchen counter
You get clean in a shower
Meaning its actually very hygenic if you clean it
Just like a flipping sink dude
When he said he had custome blinds made, i thought the color was part of how he ordered them too. He did a really good job painting them!
Same!! Super impressive!
and to me for some reason the symbol reminds me of something, probably an app brand 😮, I wonder what it means
Brilliant way to hide the closet and shower 👍🙂
you could do that but then you'd run the risk of the blinds and your paint not matching. and then you live in a cartoon where objects that move are a slightly different color from the background
Right should have just gone with a premade color and matched the walls to that or ordered them in a color he could live with.
This makes me think of the sims when you just place a shower next to the stove because you can’t be bothered 😂
Now I want to play The Sims
That apartment is so old it probably didn't have hot water originally. You'd see tubs built next to kitchens a lot because you had to boil your own water to draw a hot bath (cold water flats).
Save on piping
@MacPoop Ohhh good idea.
@@amysmiles9751It was the only logical way of doing it back then.
Mental breakdowns while doing things on your own is SO REAL. But the happiness you feel once it's done is Unreal.
I can certainly relate...I put a cat door in a metal door. I was in tears halfway through it but persevered and got it done. My cat was very happy lol.
Only creative folks can live in these places and I love seeing their work. Thanks for sharing.
True! It's amazing how he transformed this place.
Anyone can live in these places. In many countries, there are families of 15 who share an entire house with the same square footage.
There's an old saying you don't hear much anymore... Necessity is the mother of invention.
@@Butcho22absolutely not true, I would probably do myself in from the depression+panic this small a living space would trigger. It's really impressive to see someone be comfortable and have fun in a space like this but I could NOT do it myself.
@@laurarobbins2474 Necessity is the mother of invention, but very few people make necessities beautiful.
Amazing! Very creative solution.
seems like common sense to me
I don’t think it’s creative. I feel it’s anything but…
I like the part when he salutes the blinds with Martini at the end! This gave me a clear instruction how I should end work tasks.
Basking and relaxing after a job well(*) done is KEY!!
(*) even with jobs that are not really WELL done.. done is done!
I am an Interior Designer - I like what you did - very creative use of space and especially with blinds.
Have to agree that it is easier to install blinds of that dimension with help.
Awesome job
All that moisture going into the entire apartment would drive me nuts.
Dehumidifiers rock!
Open the window a crack?
It's called "windows." 🙄
Yeah famously breezy New York.
just thinking about the germs and like dead skin and gunk from the bathroom being on most of the surfaces of my house gives me the heebie-jeebies
I love how you created a groovy cozy home that isn’t just basic grey, black, or white. This is how I want to decorate my room! Wow!
Making dinner and watching the kids in the tub the same time is great 😂
showering and stirring the sauce at the same time....very convenient....lol...
What a lovely apartment. Admiring the colors and patterns. Excellent!
That hiding trick seems to really work! Hope it stays good over time. My anti-mold blinds got... mold. Within a year. Last time I bought those!
Guess the trick here is to have the bath dried up completely and then lower the blinds.
I love the diarrhea brown
Very good idea! I love it!
My dad grew up in a tenement building in Brooklyn during the 1930's and 1940's. There was a kitchen, basically the family room too, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. Heat came from a wood burning stove in thw kitchen and once a week they'd heat water up and get a bath in a metal tub, in the middle of the kitchen!
I recently looked up the address and saw a cute cafe underneath on the bottom floor. My dad is in his 90's now and does a lot of reminiscing about growing up in Brooklyn.
Take him back to see it, or film where he can see the space with a VR headset. 👍
@@WorkoutorWorkin awesome idea with the VR!!
Mine grew up in a three room house on a dirt road next to a cotton field on a small Mississippi delta farm. Nine boys in the family and they took baths the same way, except they didn't have indoor plumbing, it was pumped from an outside well and hauled in by hand. He's 83 and still remembers picking cotton all day long as a.five year old boy. A world away.
That sounds so much like the description of the tenement apartment they live in in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! The layout must have been pretty standard then.
I think bathing in a metal tub was a common experience during that time. My grandparents grew up in terrace houses in Glasgow and Liverpool and all got bathed in tubs in the living room sitting next to the fireplace.
My grandma was from NYC and worked in garment factories in the late 1920s-1930s (Depression era) because work was hard to find, and she shared tenements like this with several other women because the rent was super cheap. She talked about having a setup like this, where the cooking and bathing areas were more communal because it was less expensive and they could run the plumbing in one area. You really took the character of this unit and embraced it, and worked with it...what an amazing solution!
They could never imagine the costs ofcrent now ❤😂
I guess you get really used to nudity living in that situation. You can’t avoid seeing your flatmates naked when they’re bathing in the middle of the kitchen.
Just thought I would let you know there are a few channels on here that show restored videos from that time period. Lots of them taking place in NYC or NJ. You may see a relative!
That’s way cool, Molly!
I feel it’s anything but amazing.
That's neat, but you should have started by making a frame out of galvanized square steel, covered it in eco friendly wood veneers, borrow some expansion screws from your aunt to fix it to the wall, and then put a squat toilet directly under the showerhead.
😂 that galvanized steel would have made this place look 10 times better
we watched the same stuffs, did we now 😭🤣
Yes.
The fact that I know this reference. 😭😭😂😂😂
Blinds are perfect, what a great job, beautiful finish.
These are such sophisticated blinds. They really change the space !! ♥️
I imagine having a bathtub in a tenement was a luxury back in the day.
I LOVE the floral motif on those green cabinets. Great apartment.
The bath tub was pretty standard, true luxury was having a toilet in the apartment. The bath tub was also where laundry was washed.
@@uppereast74 Oh ok. Thanks!
@@uppereast74where did you go potty? Down the hall?
@@rebeccacarraway480 No. In earlier tenaments, there were outhouses in the back. 4th floor, cold water walkup? Go down three flights and outside to the row of outhouses.
@@jenniferlloyd9574 I imagined most people probably had a chamber pot they would empty.
250 sq. ft. apartment + NYC = $3000.
Why would you voluntarily live in New York
Because NYC is effing amazing. I was born and raised there. Lived in the city till I was 25. Moved out because I didn't want to spend a billion dollars on rent but if it wasn't for money I would still be there.
I’m glad I’m not the only one having breakdowns doing things alone because I just had a vision lol.
Ugggh I tried to do wallpaper in my first apartment. I called my mother absolutely hysterical. She came over and had to finish it for me!!
Tick tick boom ass living situation
No more shower in the kitchen while your roommate's eating breakfast in the kitchen and you're getting water on his cornflakes.....
OMFG I WAS THINKING EXACT SAME THING. good to see another jonathan larson fan round these parts haha
I'm surprised these still exist.
I lived on a 5 flight walk-up in the so-called East Village, 1976-1995. Stall shower (no tub!) in the kitchen....wait for it....toilet down the hall!!! Did not share the toilet, but still. But I thought all these kinds of apts had been renovated a long time ago. (A friend of my mothers' had their tub in the kitchen. They called the room the Bitchen 😅.)
The amount of work and money people put into a rental they don't own is astonishing
But here’s the thing people in large cities live in apartments for at least half of their lives. It’s not like in small town USA!
“You will own nothing and like it” or however the saying goes
People rent crappy-looking apartments because a few hundred dollars in paint and rollers to make their apartment look more expensive and nicer works out way cheaper in the long run than renting out a place that is more expensive and nicer.
@@wendyhanberg8733Why would you want to live like a fucking worker ant?
Well while you're living in it you might as well make it look less depressing for your own sanity. Color improves your mood and will get your mind off the fact that you're living in a box.
He looks like he doesn’t want to lose these beautiful things that he’s got.
Great job . Now we NEED an apt tour!
It's 240 Sq ft, I think we saw it
My guess, he's going to stand in the middle & turn around.... Tour complete
they posted one a few months ago
czcams.com/users/shorts3KwlZvJjaac?si=huKUiXqrxH69zJtS
That WAS the tour
This was the apt tour
Am i the only one worried about humidity/mold? This seems so inconvenient for an apartment lol
Honestly, nah. Most of our prewar NYC apartments have old steam heat radiators which make the apartment crazy dry. In multiple apartments I've used the steam from my shower to humidify my apartment to a liveable level. It's cheaper than investing in a humidifier. Also if it's too much you just use the fan over your oven range.
I feel like a dehumidifier would do a good job to help with that too
So there are these things called windows
@@theboujieproletariathave you not seen some south east Asian countries where their entire house is literally coated in water due to the humidity? Windows don't work in all situations. Plus, who wants their apartment to smell like New York air?
@@cottoncandiez8872new york is not located in south east asia or in any tropical area
This aesthetic is SO nice!!
I would totally watch this dude's diy channel! Good inspo for those of us who have a small place and a not so immaculate budget.
He’s working to find the silver linings in a less than ideal space and make it feel like home! Admirable!
Yes, your right. Basically its a motel room.
Clearly neither of you are from NYC because this is actually a killer apartment
@@jordynashleynycthat just makes it worse lmfao what a shithole
I also live in NYC with a bathtub in the kitchen when I was little,it wasn’t fun in the winter because of the cold or when someone knocked on the door 🤦🏼♀️ great Job on your apartment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bro lives in a house designed by Little John 💀
Your landlord will be so thrilled you did this free work to make their apartment more valuable!
Nope, that security deposit is forfeited.
now they can up his rent, because the worth has gone up. /s
He will probably never see his landlord and sends the rent in to an actual rental agency. Oh and as far as deposits go I don’t care where you live, how clean you left the place, what improvements you made.., you ain’t gettin that deposit back.. that’s just the way it is!!
@@wendyhanberg8733 you should care where they live, in most European countries, he would get his deposit back. This does not count as destroying anything here.
Well landlords here in America kind of suck (not all of course) and it’s even worse if it’s a huge rental agency. I’m a home owner, but I used to be a renter also and a few times I literally left the apartment better than I found and still didn’t get all of my deposit back. Rental agent found a cigarette burn in carpet (it was there when I moved in) and I don’t smoke. So of course they took a hundred for that, and the list goes on.
Found the little Johnny. Where is the GALVANIZED SQUARE STEEL???
Nice !!! You have a wonderful sense of design !!!
It's so cool
Many NY’ers do. NYC and Cali are design mecca.
Me, I would use light weight curtains because they will not lose shape from the moisture from showering, washing dishes, winter humidifier, and cooking. They are easy to wash and hang to drip dry, less wrinkles. Put in sash hooks to the side, two for the closet and one or two for the shower, faster than all that pulling, which has to go slow because chain quality is poor. Blinds can be damage easily, tearing, cracks in the paint, food splasher, and so on. With curtains I can change colors and can have a pattern on the cheap from wall hanging covers like a tapestry. Or real cheap buy a flat twin or full sheet. The top border usual has an opening, or use a seam reaper to open each end. Slide a rod though and you are done. You can leave the full length which is a fashion statement or have your local dry cleaners tailor length to your choice. One sheet for a more flat picture look or two sheets to have swing open sash look with a center for your closet, with the gathered look when closed. No chain slow pulling up and down, so as not to break the chain if not heavy duty. When you do any decorations of any thing maintenance must be a factor. To put in that much work only to have to replace because of dirt or damage in six months later. 😮😮😮❤❤❤😊😊😊
Bro's little john 😂
In this entire video, the thing that I loved the most was the decoupage on the upper kitchen cupboards. . . ♥
What a cool way to tackle a different house layout than we are use too. I personally love it
Maturably Awesome💫.
Trapped in an endless desert of nightmarish “house flipper” videos, this oasis graces my recommended page. Thank you, my good man! The place looks great!
looks so cozy, glad you made the space work for you
Is New York really worth it?
The city isn’t, unless you have a special job there or something. The rest of the State is good for the most part.
Yeah the amount of cope by new yorkers is unreal
This guy is decorating his pod that he probably spends more than 2 grand on and acting like he doesn't regularly have panic attacks bc his life sucks
@@raidzeromattyour comment made me LOL because of how brutally true it is.
Thumbs up.
@@samhill3913 I lived in New York. Its a cesspool. "its good for the most part." I don't feel bad when you are knockout game'd (only happens if ur white), squatted, force shut-down, foreclosed from housing prices, or just straight arrested for speech. 💀
To me, I think so. Probably not to a lot of people.
My 4000 sq ft house outside of Atlanta costs the same as a tiny tiny Manhattan apt and I have trees and a yard and neighborhood pool with tennis courts.
"Why is someone singing in your wall?"
Clever, creative and determined. A great job to be very proud of.
Well done bro!! 👍👍
Having a shower or bath in my living room with the heater on and the TV on is such a dream
Little Johny can finally take a shower now 🎉🎉
Brilliant job!
That was a very good idea with those blinds
I love this transformation. Is there a full video on this apartment please? I want to see more of this guys ideas 😊
Same
Worked out great from what I can see. You must have breathed a huge sigh of relief that first time you came home to your apartment and realised you had control of your space and, just relaxed.
I liked it until I saw the huge egg yolk in the middle 😂
The colors are gorgeous. I especially love your choice of…well…color. I hate the white and grey everywhere today
Me too. I need color.
Good job, very creative 🎉. It's just half green half white reminds me of soviet time building colour scheme. It's always white top with some shade of green on the bottom 😂.
WOOOOOW! That's a lot of work.
His level of patience is phenomenal ❤❤
I love this so much! People now days are buying old houses and completely rebuilding them. This is a much better solution. Thank you so much!!!❤❤❤
I love the idea, the colours make it look a little smaller but I still love the dark green
I think a barn door set up, made with 2 or 3 panels of plywood, would’ve worked well. Then you could’ve painted anything on the wood. In the mid-1980s, My brother lived in a turn of the century shotgun flat in the South Bronx, NY. His bathroom was next to the kitchen, and it had no wall to close it off from the hallway. It was the first open concept bathroom I ever saw. You could watch someone take a shower or a dump, on your way to the kitchen. The place had 2.5 bedrooms, exposed brick walls, and a view of Manhattan and Queens, NY. The bedroom windows looked out at brick walls, but one room had a skylight. His rent was $450.00. It probably costs at least ten times that much now.
no one likes barn door set ups
Ah yes, a heavy big piece of wood vs 2 blinds..........
Well tbf, the other commenters, sliding doors are just awesome and space savers. Doesn’t have to a barn door, you know? Even a lightweight sliding door would be great. Honestly more apartments should utilize sliding doors.
Barn doors are not very practical and tend to break. Sliding doors have their place, but they actually don't always make sense, sometimes they need to be pocket doors and that isn't feasible. Seeing this very limited space, the curtains make a lot of sense. They probably cost a lot less than wood, are going to stand up to humidity from the shower better, have all the space saving you could possibly want which a sliding door wouldn't have and he clearly customized it and was successful at it.
We have a barn door for our en suite bathroom, and it involves serious hardware - nothing a renter would ever be allowed to install. We had to replace it, and it was pretty complicated. And it is SO heavy. I'm sure there was a regular door there once, but it's too close to the bedroom door, and due to utilities a pocket door isn't possible.
It was so awkward at first but you made it seamless I love it!!!
AMAZING!🤩
I dont live in an apartment, but a VERY SMALL house. Not "small hime movement" small, but it does have its challenges.
I LOVE learning tips and trick like this. They can and have come in really handy!
Thank you!!
Just out of curiosity, what is about your monthly rent for that?
I’d guess 2k
Way more than should be humanely allowed am guessing lol
Tenement means older style apartments. They usually are much lower because they're in older buildings and they may not have modern amenities.
Don’t worry, these people have rich parents
I also love the cabinets
You did an amazing job. I love the color.
This is it
This is the Little John house from those cursed home rennovation vids
Gorgeous! Oh, and the blinds are lovely as well! 😂 amazing work!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one a bit distracted away from the paint job 😭
It's absolutely beautiful! Well done!
It took me way too long to realize this was not a parody skit but a legit apartment "fix-it"
Nah bro. We gotta bring little John to save this apartment
I just love the result and the colour of the shower curtain 🎉
I really think it would be cool if you framed out the edges so the curtain wasn't loose ( kinda like sliding a paper into a protective sleeve) that way the curtains would look less like curtains and more like a wall panel or painting.
I thought they did already.
COLOR!!! Finally, some color in someone's home!
I actually love this apartment and even the shower, but his solution with blinds genuinely looks amazing
Some people complain - others find solutions- love this
@@violett874 🤦🏾🤦🏾🤦🏾
@violett874 what do you mean "like this"? He lives in a tenement. I live in a tenement. Millions of people do all over the world. Whats wrong with it !
Living like sardines jammed in a can; so spacious lol.
Id love to see his whole apt!
This is the whole apartment
@@jamiejusthappenedtobehere2434 lol! I meant like a detailed walk through. He seems to have great style, I'd love to hear about the pieces in his home
The music is killing me 😆
Yikes!!!! You did such a great job. I’m all about shades too. I use spring rods top bottom and a middle rod to raise and lower. I got half bolt of nice burlap at thrift shop, cut to width, zig zagged each length side, 3 inch header top and bottom, then done. If I knew how, I’d send a pic. Keep these coming.
STUNNING. YOU DID A FANTASTIC JOB.❤❤
Gorgeous work
Your space looks amazing
Great color scheme 👌
This is LOVELY.
Imagine being able to have a bath, eat dinner and watch TV, this looks awesome
That's not a shower that is a bucket with a water source.
Creative & lovely!
Every time I see a New York apartment it just blows my mind. You have to literally be crazy
Wow. 😯 Hard work paid off, looks beautiful. Sorta harkens back to the original time period too. 👍
Creativity is nothing without follow-through, WELL DONE, YOU, and all similar creative's! 😮
I ❤️ what you did to it. Do you have a toilet or do you have to share one?
There’s a full tour video on the apt therapy channel, it shows le toilet
@@karis7649 Thank you I will look for it.
This is super cool!
Hey if anyone is wondering, you can actually buy fabric paint from most paint stores that set when dried and ironed and then become machine washable :) I use it to paint doodles on jackets and stuff and it works great!
Very artful solution. Hope those shades hold up. So much work!
I moved from Manhattan to ATL 5 years ago. Now I have a king sized bed, washer and dryer, 2 bathrooms, a huge living room, a patio for my cat to roam on and a nice car. There are great restaurants in ATL and there’s an international airport. The weather is better too. So no. This idea that NYC is so awesome - try getting denied by taxi cabs during their shift change, smushed on the subway, using quarters to wash your clothes in a basement with roaches. Not anymore. Visiting is just fine!
Nobody asked about your opinion on NYC here???
The only part you left out is how much your rent or mortgage is. Atlanta isn't cheap either. I get what you saying about the bugs and rats. I've been to NYC many times, never lived. Haven't been to ATL since a kid. If I had the extra money $$$$, I would definitely have a spot in NYC. Until then I'll will stay home in PGH 😄. I do love NYC though. It's the vibe for me. It's more than just restaurants, museums, shows, parks etc etc. Haven't been since 2019, but every time I come I always had the feeling that it was home. I even felt safe. Strange as that may sound. I'm born and raised in PGH. NYC isn't for everybody that's for sure, and that's okay.
Now the bathroom set up in this apartment? I like how he did the blinds to cover it, but I would not like my shower in the kitchen at all. I'm going to look for the full video.
Nobody asked you either?...and, apparently, everything is a question? So while we're making statements in the form of questions?...NYC is hell, and anyone that still lives there is desperate, an idiot, or probably both.
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@@VictoriaPitt01
Great job! You're apartment looks functional and stylish
That apartment is really nice .Those blinds turned out wonderful,what a great idea.
🫵🏻⭐️…..👏👏👏
Small NYC studio dweller here. My hat is off to you, sir. That looks so chic and warm.
Question, how much is the rent?
Oooo, baby....you can paint my blinds ANY time!
Be gone thot
Could’ve made a sliding double doors like wardrobes(not walk-in) have😐 Having mirrors on those would even visually expand the room…
Yes! Mirrors! That’s what I’m saying.
If this tiny apt is all he can afford, doors would be out of his budget, plus he’s a renter.
Tnis is a nice small apartment. In NYC, he probably pays good low rent of $5000 a month.
I had a similar shower setup in an apartment in Germany once. It was great. Whenever you could not choose between showering and doing the dishes you could just take the dishes into the shower 💪🏼
This is fantastic! You have a keen eye for interior design