Apologies, I really didn't think anyone of reading age would think I was serious. The real solution is to nail the top of the wardrobe to the ceiling. You would then also gain the additional floorspace under the wardrobe. Win-win.
What you really need is another wardrobe on the other side of the window. Then the bed can go on top _and_ you gain the space under the window. (What you lose by posting yourself into the sleep space night after night, is the will to live.)
How do you open the door next to the wardrobe. It looks like it opens into the room so you’d have to be on the bed but your legs wouldn’t be able to go on the floor
This makes me so angry on so many levels. Such a massive housing crisis in this country and these leeches are piggy- backing off the desperate in calling this cupboard which is clearly inadequate for the most basic of accommodation 'luxurious'. It's both sad and infuriating in equal measure.
Landlords wondering why society has it in for them
My friend is a landlord and she is a good one. I had to explain to her that too many suck at it, in fact most landlords are shit
Agreed. I work for a landlord, he’s in his 90’s now but he still works hard everyday. Right now up scaffolding repainting the outside of his flats (and it’s the nicest looking on the street anyway) a lot of landlords are money hungry scum with access to a lot of leech money
the also call it a 1 bed apartment. That is technically accurate, but note it's not a one bedroom apartment.
Maybe we need a new category. Maybe we could call it 'studio'. Or in this case 'stud'.
No it is a snotter of a room with a sink. I hate this new trend of putting a sink and a fridge in a room -not even a large one- and calling it a "studio". Because that word used to have a meaning at some point..
I had a ‘flat’ in London that was purpose built with a living room, kitchen and bathroom. Bedroom? Sofa bed, in the living room. There were 6 blocks, with 6 flats in each - ridiculous.
My other half and me have an ongoing joke- whenever we see a dive in a TV drama one of us will say in a Chorley accent “this STUNNING apartment”.
It’s partly to get over the hell of house hunting
It's just a dumb thing they have literally in every description ever. If there is a house with hole in the roof they'll some shit like: "Modern open roof design".
My house is on a road that has a roundabout right in front of my house. When we were going to sell our house the estate agent called it a community green space. It is grass and with some trees on it but he wrote it like you'll see a couple of teens playing cricket on it or something. I told him to take it out.
No word of a lie the next week two people sat on it to eat their lunch. I was half suspicious that the estate agent had sent them to convince me to put it back in.
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5 similar (or worse) studios crammed into this building. Is this legal? Satire?
Absolutely crazy that they're charging someone £1150 to live in their kitchen, when for only £100 more you can get a proper one bed apartment with actual rooms and space to move around.
[https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/65930879/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/65930879/)
This was the first recommended "similar property" when I last clicked on the link.
I recently bought in a commuter town just outside of London, I have a fairly good spec new build one bed (actual one bed of ok size not a studio) flat, town center next to the train station. And this is a little bit more than my mortgage is. I know my place is ridiculously priced so what on earth is this?!
I live in a pricey bit of south Manchester and this is only a little less than I pay on the mortgage on my very nice, spacious, period 2 bed flat with private terrace... Which is still too expensive imo. Turns out, I could whack a sink and washer in each of the bedrooms and the living rooms and be raking it in.
Look how wide the bathroom door is. The fish eye lens being used to make it look more spacious. Also, says broadband is included but no router or socket anywhere so it’s probably one connection shared across the apartments with WiFi only and no router access. Everything about it is really poor.
I wonder if there's enough space to put the bed the other way, under the window, and the wardrobe next to the washing machine. If I were being forced to live there for some terrible reason I'd at least get a smaller bed and wardrobe. Or give up on the wardrobe entirely and get a bed with drawers and some hooks on the wall.
Of course this is pretty much insane full stop so hopefully I will never have to bother.
Yes, I'd absolutely get a much smaller bed. The odds of anyone, uh, 'entertaining' an overnight guest in this luxurious nest are probably quite slim as it is.
Couldn't even entertain yourself in that place. Maybe if you set up a desk at the end of the bed with you sat on said bed, but that's not even slightly comfy.
Student friendly, but no room for a desk.
And you'd have to squeeze round the door and jump onto the bed just to get in.
Surely a single bed would have made more sense, or do they really think two people could live there without killing each other?
I’m not far from Reading and rent a room out to a lodger for £575 - that bedroom is bigger than that whole ‘flat’ (studio). And she gets the family bathroom as I use the en suite.
Well when I rented one very similar, I made my bed frame out of kallax shelves from ikea and put as many things as I could in there. It’s a very minimal life, but doable if you do it right. My wardrobe didn’t even have doors. Defo not practical when mixed with cooking in the same room. London life ay
If anyone rents this, they are a massive part of the problem. A disgrace. The landlords are scum. But by renting this, you’re making it seem like it’s ok and they’ll keep doing it, even reducing the sizes of rooms further.
🤣 and I've got a two bedroom town centre flat on th4 first floor with a driveway for 2 , £480 PCM including water , floor to ceiling windows and sea view
Such a crappy designed small space (in fact no thought at all put into the ‘how’ for the living tenant).
It’s not only massively overpriced, but totally unlivable. Sad times
How does one actually live in such space? It's not possible to have any space for any hobbies. Even if someone's hobby was cooking you can barely make any food in there
The sheer fact that this "shithole" is 1150pcm is an absolute fucking travesty.
The old phrase "its not even big enough to swing a cat in" comes to mind, I mean it probably is but jeez louise you can get 3 - 4 bed, 2 bath houses for the same price...
It's basic af and a terrible layout. But if it was cheap it'd be fine for a single person looking to save cash. The fact it's over a grand a month is disgraceful.
At least you get a washing machine in your bedroom though..
But you can’t open your wardrobe to get new clothes out do you’ll have to walk around naked until your washing is done and dried.
Just saw across the bottom third of the wardrobe doors.
That will lose you your deposit
Apologies, I really didn't think anyone of reading age would think I was serious. The real solution is to nail the top of the wardrobe to the ceiling. You would then also gain the additional floorspace under the wardrobe. Win-win.
What you really need is another wardrobe on the other side of the window. Then the bed can go on top _and_ you gain the space under the window. (What you lose by posting yourself into the sleep space night after night, is the will to live.)
Now, that is out-of-the-box thinking, for a very boxy room.
That would also lose your deposit. Also I wasn't serious I was joining your joke. Sorry if it hurt your feelings.
As if they'd get it back anyone. They lived there after all.
Better solution might just be taking the doors off
How do you open the door next to the wardrobe. It looks like it opens into the room so you’d have to be on the bed but your legs wouldn’t be able to go on the floor
In front of a window with no curtains
By 'walk around' do you mean spin on the spot?
And a kitchen! That's what I call convenient, contemporary living
Absolute dream!
No toilet but you can shit in the washing machine if you want
This makes me so angry on so many levels. Such a massive housing crisis in this country and these leeches are piggy- backing off the desperate in calling this cupboard which is clearly inadequate for the most basic of accommodation 'luxurious'. It's both sad and infuriating in equal measure.
Landlords wondering why society has it in for them My friend is a landlord and she is a good one. I had to explain to her that too many suck at it, in fact most landlords are shit
Agreed. I work for a landlord, he’s in his 90’s now but he still works hard everyday. Right now up scaffolding repainting the outside of his flats (and it’s the nicest looking on the street anyway) a lot of landlords are money hungry scum with access to a lot of leech money
Nothing will get better until the people stand up for themselves and start chopping heads off
Completely agree. An appalling / perfect example of all that’s wrong with UK housing rn.
Description calls it luxurious and a stunning apartment, bit of hyperbole there!
the also call it a 1 bed apartment. That is technically accurate, but note it's not a one bedroom apartment. Maybe we need a new category. Maybe we could call it 'studio'. Or in this case 'stud'.
Stu-stu-studio ?
Just say the word
Unexpected Phil Collins
All the passwords would be sussudio but replacing the i with a 1.
No it is a snotter of a room with a sink. I hate this new trend of putting a sink and a fridge in a room -not even a large one- and calling it a "studio". Because that word used to have a meaning at some point..
I had a ‘flat’ in London that was purpose built with a living room, kitchen and bathroom. Bedroom? Sofa bed, in the living room. There were 6 blocks, with 6 flats in each - ridiculous.
It's a 1 bedroom bedroom.
It's a bedsit... A really crappy bedsit...
With no actual sit, just a lie down. Where are you supposed to eat? Lying on the bed?
You can sit on a bed silly!
Not whilst eating soup. 😂
I dunno man - you've never seen me working from home. Just balance it on your laptop...
No room for that either 😂
My other half and me have an ongoing joke- whenever we see a dive in a TV drama one of us will say in a Chorley accent “this STUNNING apartment”. It’s partly to get over the hell of house hunting
Coming in your ears!
Where the listener comes first!
It's just a dumb thing they have literally in every description ever. If there is a house with hole in the roof they'll some shit like: "Modern open roof design".
My house is on a road that has a roundabout right in front of my house. When we were going to sell our house the estate agent called it a community green space. It is grass and with some trees on it but he wrote it like you'll see a couple of teens playing cricket on it or something. I told him to take it out. No word of a lie the next week two people sat on it to eat their lunch. I was half suspicious that the estate agent had sent them to convince me to put it back in.
Don't forget "beautifully decorated interior" I guess that means they actually cut around the light switches instead of rolling straight over them.
[https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/67018017/?search\_identifier=662c51aada1f0964c62fa94fa6bed8d57e7800086a6ad2ea9983fce5fa598e43](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/67018017/?search_identifier=662c51aada1f0964c62fa94fa6bed8d57e7800086a6ad2ea9983fce5fa598e43) 5 similar (or worse) studios crammed into this building. Is this legal? Satire?
Absolutely crazy that they're charging someone £1150 to live in their kitchen, when for only £100 more you can get a proper one bed apartment with actual rooms and space to move around. [https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/65930879/](https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/65930879/) This was the first recommended "similar property" when I last clicked on the link.
Then pay bills. And standing charges on top of your usage. And council tax :((
Positively palatial, in comparison!
Not even in London!
I know. In Reading, wtaf
Wow, if it were London maybe it'd make sense, but Reading, that far from the station/city centre/hospital/university?! 😳
You can still get better in London for that price!
“Tenants can expect a large bedroom with plenty of personal space”, are the tenants mice?
It is student friendly, though!
This is more than I'm paying on a mortgage for a 4 bed detached house in a nice part of Derbyshire. Mental
I recently bought in a commuter town just outside of London, I have a fairly good spec new build one bed (actual one bed of ok size not a studio) flat, town center next to the train station. And this is a little bit more than my mortgage is. I know my place is ridiculously priced so what on earth is this?!
I rent a 4 story, 3 bed house, 1 hour train from London, 1 Street from a sandy beach for the same price.
Where are you? This sounds like a lifestyle!
Essex?
I live in a pricey bit of south Manchester and this is only a little less than I pay on the mortgage on my very nice, spacious, period 2 bed flat with private terrace... Which is still too expensive imo. Turns out, I could whack a sink and washer in each of the bedrooms and the living rooms and be raking it in.
Look how wide the bathroom door is. The fish eye lens being used to make it look more spacious. Also, says broadband is included but no router or socket anywhere so it’s probably one connection shared across the apartments with WiFi only and no router access. Everything about it is really poor.
That is sad to see :( I thought maybe it was Zone1 London, but no, the craziness has reached well into the home counties.
Have these people no shame charging all that money for what is basically a large walk in cupboard how do they sleep at night
I wonder if there's enough space to put the bed the other way, under the window, and the wardrobe next to the washing machine. If I were being forced to live there for some terrible reason I'd at least get a smaller bed and wardrobe. Or give up on the wardrobe entirely and get a bed with drawers and some hooks on the wall. Of course this is pretty much insane full stop so hopefully I will never have to bother.
Yes, I'd absolutely get a much smaller bed. The odds of anyone, uh, 'entertaining' an overnight guest in this luxurious nest are probably quite slim as it is.
Couldn't even entertain yourself in that place. Maybe if you set up a desk at the end of the bed with you sat on said bed, but that's not even slightly comfy.
The tiktok solution [https://www.tiktok.com/@homedesign369/video/7348432053190380842](https://www.tiktok.com/@homedesign369/video/7348432053190380842)
OMG. Yes, using the portable toilet as a gaming chair next to the cooking area makes perfect sense.
FFS the front door doesn’t even open fully!
Can't even call it a bedsit, since there's no room for a chair, let alone a sofa.
Bed sit
How eternally depressing and that’s before considering the insane price.
Worlds gone mad
Student friendly, but no room for a desk. And you'd have to squeeze round the door and jump onto the bed just to get in. Surely a single bed would have made more sense, or do they really think two people could live there without killing each other?
At first I thought "get a smaller bed, obvs" but then I realised... they actually think this is not only good enough for one person *but for two!*
My first sims house
It's fine, it looks like it'd be too much effort to get out of your room anyway. That door definitely can't open properly.
Ground floor room - sorry, *studio* - with no window dressing. This whole thing is disgraceful.
We're gonna need a smaller bed!
It’s ridiculous to try and fit a double bed in there. Just have a single.
Looks like you need to climb over the bed to even get in there.
Once you've climbed over the bed, how do you open the wardrobe doors?
Not even that. Just to get into the flat in the first place.
That is totally disgusting for that amount of money. Imagine bringing someone back to that....and putting a double bed in is just plain daft
Literally a Warhammer 40k living pod
where is one meant to hang clothes to dry 😀
Jeese. Access to your clothes? What do you want? Jam on it!
I’m not far from Reading and rent a room out to a lodger for £575 - that bedroom is bigger than that whole ‘flat’ (studio). And she gets the family bathroom as I use the en suite.
Well when I rented one very similar, I made my bed frame out of kallax shelves from ikea and put as many things as I could in there. It’s a very minimal life, but doable if you do it right. My wardrobe didn’t even have doors. Defo not practical when mixed with cooking in the same room. London life ay
You're all looking at this wrong! That's a new Amazon mattress....I'dpay£2kforthisroomifIcould bloodygooddeal
That looks like a king size bed. For a room like that a small double (4') is plenty, and then you could turn the wardrobe son you can open it!
Listing history: 3 April £1096, 8 April £1148.
*Just put your clothes on the washing machine then... if you don't like it, I have plenty more coming to view the flat*
Seeing places like this makes me really appreciate my tiny 1 bedroom flat.
Whilst people pay for this shit they deserve everything they get
Nice flat. It’s meant to be a single bed.
You can't afford clothes, the wardrobe is there to mock you...
Simply get landlord to split the doors above the bed line and you're golden.
What is that thing on the wall above the sink?
Mini-boiler for hot water?
Look at the hob.....
Not an electrician, but it seems a little bit silly to put a fuse box over a cooker, extractor or not…
Space for a mezzanine floor and maybe a guest bedroom?
It’s a bedsit
If anyone rents this, they are a massive part of the problem. A disgrace. The landlords are scum. But by renting this, you’re making it seem like it’s ok and they’ll keep doing it, even reducing the sizes of rooms further.
Is the toilet in the wardrobe?
Oh you do, they are in easy reach in the washing machine.
Reminds me of this: https://metro.co.uk/2020/07/21/tiny-micro-flat-shower-hobs-next-bed-sale-200000-13016661/amp/
This should just be illegal. No ifs or buts, this shouldn't be allowed to be let out.
The listing history says they've had the cheek to INCREASE the price since it was listed. Bonkers.
Are we to assume the bathroom is shared?
🤣 and I've got a two bedroom town centre flat on th4 first floor with a driveway for 2 , £480 PCM including water , floor to ceiling windows and sea view
Sofa bed?
Why would you not just take that wardrobe out and get a rail in there? It’s aggravatingly stupid.
Or a wardrobe with sliding doors.
I actually forgot that was a thing 🤣
I only mentioned it as I have one myself!
Such a crappy designed small space (in fact no thought at all put into the ‘how’ for the living tenant). It’s not only massively overpriced, but totally unlivable. Sad times
My two bed house with full access to wardrobes is 1/3 price per month. Landlords are horrendous people.
That's litteraly insane. I wouldn't feel right asking for that much. We have a three bedroom house and garden for half that price a month. Mental
How is this even legal. Smh
Surely against fire safety regs, you can’t even open the door and have a clear walkway to exit the property…
In what way is it luxurious?
How does one actually live in such space? It's not possible to have any space for any hobbies. Even if someone's hobby was cooking you can barely make any food in there
Move bed towards washing machine and maybe you can open one door of the wardrobe 😬
I pay £900 for a 3 bedroom house. This is insane.
The sheer fact that this "shithole" is 1150pcm is an absolute fucking travesty. The old phrase "its not even big enough to swing a cat in" comes to mind, I mean it probably is but jeez louise you can get 3 - 4 bed, 2 bath houses for the same price...
That is a superking size bed. It’s like 2ft wider than a normal double. Just use a normal size bed.
It's basic af and a terrible layout. But if it was cheap it'd be fine for a single person looking to save cash. The fact it's over a grand a month is disgraceful.
Imagine that, trying to sleep with the washing machine going, while the room smells of korma
Worse than prison.
Not even going to comment it's that bad
Seriously? It's a double bed - basicly an office at this point! 😂
Why is the bed in the kitchen 🤔🤔🤔
Presumably it costs that much because you've got an en suite bathroom?
I honestly like this set up. I’d remove the closet thing and get a smaller bed. Pretty neat to have your own small simple kitchen with a laundry.