Live-work under loft bed in 13m2 Paris micro-studio
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- Опубликовано: 20 мар 2021
- When Jay Swanson moved into his 140-square-foot apartment, a former maids’ quarters (“chambre de bonne”) in central Paris, he had already pared down his possessions to two duffle bags in order to live aboard a hospital ship.
Dissatisfied with an old bed and desk that nearly filled the room, the science-fiction-writer-turned-vlogger took advantage of the high ceilings to create an upstairs using an ultra-tall loft bed with enough space to stand underneath and chunky stairs that double as storage drawers.
To turn his bathroom into a hybrid kitchen, he removed the urinal/bidet and replaced it with an induction stovetop and tiny washing machine. He admits midnight runs to the toilet down the hall aren’t always comfortable, but are worth the added space.
When he first moved in in 2017 Paris was his dining room and living room, but in times of Covid, he has had to readjust to being confined to 13 square meters for months on end. He credits his rich creative life - writing (he wrote “the world’s first real-time fantasy blog”) and video editing (he’s made his living with his RUclips channel since 2017) - for expanding any space beyond the four walls.
Jay's vlog: / @jayswanson
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Thanks so much for visiting! It was so fun and I love the video 🥳
Jay out to grace the rest of RUclips too ❤️😅
I hope this video goes vital.
Jay, a subscriber here to your channel and you're an inspiration for people to follow their dream.
So happy to see you on Kirsten's
Thanks for sharing your apartment and life with us. The video was very enjoyable and I’m now subbed to your channel. Sending all the best to you Jay 👍✌️🙏❤️
I absolutely love his comments, rambling...Jay was a true (gem) find for me. Thank you for showing his tiny place, and him!
I love when two channels I follow somehow come together!!!
Kristen, another great video. I am always amazed at how people can live and adapt to different environments, spaces and thrive. It appears that Europeans do it easier than we Americans. I heard someone from Denmark say "We live small so we can live large".
Asians like those in Hong Kong and Japan are the masters of tiny living. Seeing these homes makes us in the West, realise how much space we have that is just filled up with unused junk.
@@kismetau I agree Kismet. I've read Marie Kondo, and Fumio Sasaki"s books. Now reading "a Monks guide to a Clean House and Mind". Their the Masters.
If he was used to a ship compartment this is much better. You must love the inner city life of Paris to do this though.
I’m all for living simply and using the outdoors as your backyard. I’m sure this pandemic has made many people question this lifestyle though if you are continuously living in lockdown. So glad for the small courtyard l have.
@@kismetau I am also in the luxury of a huge outdoor garden, Kismet. If city life is closed down the outdoors is your savior.
Been a subscriber of this channel for a while the videos never disappoint, keep up the good work!!
I am absolutely freaking out. Two of my favourite RUclips creators in one video! :O
Jay's transformation of this space was brilliant to watch! And so awesome to new see Kirsten's take on it.
what a great guy. i like his mind and his use of such a small space. it really does seem like a cozy hug.
He has a you tube channel and he is awesome.
Jayyy!!!!! So cool to see this cross posting 😍😍😍
I appreciate these small spaces that are actually lived in much more than the high end vacation spaces shown by the designer.
Love Jay Swanson, been watching his channel for years, glad you found him.
Well this was a pleasant surprise! Two of my fav vloggers made a video together.
Jay is an amazing youtuber, he has one of the best vlog channels around. Through his every day journals in Paris he shares his mindful thoughts that speak directly to our hearts. He deserves a sub 😊
This looks like that scene in a prison movie when they show you where the mob boss sleeps, and you see the contrast between his well furnished room and other inmates stark cells!
Barn....and the other 31 who thumbed up...thats not really kind, guys. =/
Awesome to say Jay featured. I remember the journey he went through with this space. Also cool to see two of my subbed channels collaborating :D
How cool!! I used to watch his videos last year!. I have been to Paris a couple of times and cant wait to go back.
Jay!!!! What a great surprise seeing your apartment post-sprucing up. You were a huge help when we went to Paris in September 2019, coincidentally right before the pandemic hit.
He's got the sleeping arrangement I love-- sleeping up high with space/access beneath. I would love that wee space! Nicely done!! 💙
I never tire of watching this video. Your style and ingenuity are just so impressive. You have created the ultimate cosy cute home.
This is such a great use of space, the fact that he can stand under the bed is nice. Also the toilet walk is not even that far away it totally works. Thanks for sharing 👍✌️🙏❤️
This is the future of this channel. "Hi, I've been expecting you. Here's a bunch of B roll i already shot in hope of one day, being Dirksened."
Love the vlog set-up. Single living has never been better. Well done for a bachelor. 👏😊
Certainly looks like he has everything he needs. It would be so wonderful if I could get rid of the junk and live with only what I need. Living in Paris wouldn’t hurt either.
Except toilet and cooking facilities.
This video shows that living in Paris is like living in a can with a bunch of other sardines.
@@SD-qt1fs I agree. I've been living in Paris for 25 years and I've seen this city turn into a stinky, filthy overcrowded dumpster. Everything here is noisy, grey, repellent and batshit crazy expensive. On one side, the gentrification killed a lot of small handy shops while rising the rents even more and on the other one, there's a massive flow of poverty in this city - "migrants" and homeless people who turned some parts of Paris into genuine slums. You can add all sorts of visual and olfactory pollution, unsafely, insane traffic...
The fantasied idea of a romantic and beautiful Paris is long dead : this capital is just another Gotham.
@@tallulahbeaverhausen4382 It isn't homeless people's fault.
you know that homelesness is usually just a product of gentrification right? people dont wanna end up on the streets...@@tallulahbeaverhausen4382
Jay's studio is more spacious than mine in Hong Kong, my only windows then were the TV and my laptop.
That must have been super claustrophobic !
This was super interesting. I hadn't intended on watching the entire thing, but camera work was beautifully woven in with Jay's descriptions. I lived in Paris for years in the early 80's in a student room larger than his studio and I can't believe what he's done with it! I have read some of the comments below re: his channel, so I think it's time I take a look. Thanks for showing us around Kirsten, Nico and Jay.
Continuously inspired, thank you Kirsten
Love the place! Good use of space. Really love the working station by the window!
I saw Jay’s picture on the thumbnail and thought I was visiting his channel. Imagine my surprise when I saw Kirsten on screen. Thanks for showing us the details of Jay’s space. Now I understand why he is so insane. 😉
His home is so clean and well organized. Love the dresser/stairs. His view from the window is beautiful too: it looks like he sleeps in a tree house.
Great video, love watching jay’s videos /Paris...
I can't imaginge living in a space that smal, an the lack of a toilet and kitchen feels horible.
Now imagine this during the constant lockdowns, with the obligation to stay home all the time. This fells like prison.
I assume he pees in the shower.
Justice Center Leoben....prison is a state of mind, not a place run by the state.
@@kimphila lol
They have yards at prisons
Except no bubba that you can't turn your back on...🤣
Absolutely brilliant video. Loved it ‘coz the Gentleman spoke fantastically and great in details
That was fascinating. What a positive inspirational guy. Love his attitude of gratitude. He's created a lifestyle that works for him. 💙💚
LOVE JAY , BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT , AND GREAT BOOKS , GREAT ART , VERY SMART AND DOWN TO EARTH . IT IS CALLED A REAL HUMAN BEING , LOVE HIS CHANNEL ,I WATCH EVERY BLOG , AND NOW I FOUND KIRSTEN CHANNEL ,I WILL WATCH HERS TOO. THANKS ALL .
That live action blog idea seemed really cool!
Worlds collide! Love Jay and you guys.
Amazing pictures on the wall, very cosy apartment 😊
How does Kirsten make a 14+ minute movie about a 140 sq ft space? Imagine her touring a typical 2500 sq ft American house. That movie would be 14 minutes / 140 sq ft x 2500 sq ft = 250 minutes / 60 minutes per hour = 4+ hours long.
Prolly long but not that long, because they wouldn't focus on talking about being efficient and saving up space, going to the toilet through a corridor etc.
Lol, I wouldn’t discard your challenge. We’ll let James Cutler or others know if they are up for a walkthru as long as there’s an interesting take.
yea but 2500ft amerian house is boring af usually
@@MonkeySpecs301 I’ve been around some great people and family on such houses. Too American at this point to get too harsh on the matter, lol. Will try to bring you guys some interesting stuff no matter what.
@@jelinedelacruz1187 thanks for the channel recommendation
A very cozy apartment! On a side note, glad you guys took off your shoes before stepping in. 👍
Really happy to see Jay's Le Chateau featured! Great to hear a condensed history of the place :)
Always great videos! Also the coffee appreciation in this video 😊👍🏽 chemex and inverted aeropress well done.
Nice twist on perspective of Jay’s abode. Thanks!
Limitation is the mother of creativity!
I lived in a small place in a big city before, and its coincidentally when I most recieved visits lol
Super efficient. He definitely makes the most out of this tiny space. This really reminds me of the New York Match-Box studio.
You think? To me, this doesnt look efficient at all. None of his ”solutions” work well, he basically sleep inside the shower, he doesnt have a real place to cook, no toilet etc. This could be fone so much better.
When your place is so small you leave your shoes outside the front door to increase the usable space inside by 0.71%.
Welcome to India.
I think that’s a hygienic thing specially since most viruses are introduced into your home by bringing in filthy shoe wear. Kudos for doing that. Notice how clean he keeps everything despite the cramped space.
💀 the percentage
That’s just a common thing in apartments in the uk at least
This is super! This guy is so great..
That loft bed is really nice looking & a great idea for such a small space.
Terrific video! Well done!! Really interesting to see how someone can make the best of such a small space. It can be done!! Cozy! In a huge cosmopolitan city, I think it's worth living in such a small space. Renting is difficult in such expensive cities. People are adapting to smaller housing units! It's manageable and these suites can be nicely decorated and made in to super efficient little homes!!
Amazing use of space💯👍🏽🎉
great space... i LOOOVE the artwork.
A channel crossover I didn't expect..pleasantly surprised!
Another excellent, very helpful video, thank you!
Jay seems like a very likeable fellow. I love that space.
Good job on space use. It takes awhile living in a place to understand the specific opportunities within any magnitude. Also a place is always evolving with the person who lives there.
Love Jay, the RUclipsr!
Seems like a really nice guy. Down to earth. Like that.
I used to live in a tiny studio apartment myself so I'm used to living in a diddy space but this video made me feel claustrophobic. It was fine when I was in my twenties but as you get older you need your proper home comforts like a nearby loo and a workable kitchen space. Watching this just left me feeling very sad about the current state of the world and the unaffordable housing market. How depressing :(
Exactly, we are at this point were people are actually living in cars, because even though they have a job it’s impossible to pay the apartments rent, I have family members that work in San Diego and have to go to sleep to Tijuana México, were rent is lower :(
How cool you make this all work. And super cool you are frkmPullman!!
What a creative and happy life.
Vlogs on vloggers by other vloggers
Always great to see Jay 📸
Wow his tiny studio apartment is very common in Hong Kong.
This guy has a great attitude!
Another interesting vid 👍
Love the kitchen.
THE CROSSOVER EPISODE I WASN’T EXPECTING
I love your layout and if you really want you can definitely cook. I saw RUclips on people living in Hong Kong apartment. But your space is nice as it is.
I really like this tiny room apartment. But without the toilet within the room , I think it would be a difficult life for me especially at night time. 😂🙏
Such a great vdo, thank you so much from Thailand. 🙏🇹🇭👍☺️
Compared to our four berths on the Africa Mercy, Jay got an upgrade. So excited to see his space.
Wow, good for him. Personally I would not mind a small space as long as it had my own cooking area and I need a toilet.
Very interesting video 👍
Nice appartment, really well though out and especially cozy for these times.
I also appreciate to finally see the use of masks, wanted to say that as i was annoyed to not see them in the last one. thumbs up!
Humans haven't worn masks since we've been here, now all of a sudden, everyone must wear masks? Absolute BS!! You didn't wear masks since there's been TB, and it kills between 10 and 15 million people a year, yet wear masks for the common cold? GTFO!!
@@Anarchy-Is-Liberty not for the common cold, but for influenza and for those who are at risk from it. You don't seem to understand that the common cold is something else than influenza.
Your statement about masks also shows a lack of knowledge. Humans have worn masks in many instances of human history. Look at the plague for instance or at the first world war. Also look at the numbers of persons dying at an early age due to dust lungs. Nowadays people wear masks all the time in many professions. Starting with the painters in the car industry or coal.miners preventing coal lungs, but there is many more and I am sure you could come up.with a lot of you d actually research the topic.
Bakunin would be ashamed of you, being that lazy with research and still daring to speak up in public.
Well done
A fun thought exercise if I was to live in the same situation how I would design the space to maximize the square footage. I wonder if the thick shower walls could be removed and replaced with glass planes to maximize the shower space?
I really like the use of space; I have seen fold away loo that would work in a small space, I couldn't manage that walk every time I needed to go.
Jay's space is so cool. nicely arranged.
At least you do not call it a "tiny house".... (I like your courtyard garden !)
Too small
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Good job ! Able to adapt within your means !
I can't believe Jay never mentions le Chateau!
This was interesting. He made good use of the space he has. The high ceiling helps a lot (almost always does). What made me smile is that, as small as the space is, if he had visitors, they could actually sleep in their own bed......It is a small space, but as he said, he is in "Paris"....I def would prefer my own bathroom, however.
I love this Channel😍😍 im From Bolivia so, i love to see what we don't have here
Nice!
As always, interesting.
I watch his vlogs. He makes great videos.
I like what he did with his home.
Great place! I would live in it!
I want that couch!!! He needs an InstaPot type thing too. At least a rice cooker, yeah!
Looks comfortable. Works for him. Like the higher ceiling.
Ingenius!
Another interesting vlog. Love this channel. Jay is new to me so I’ve gained something from the get go. Cool guy and added onto my reading list! My take on this is that whilst micro spaces drive a hyper-efficiency in the way you adapt to them, paring down possessions to almost monastic levels, which is fine, there still remains the question, how small is too small? Living in what is tantamount to a shoe box cannot be good for anyone’s mental well-being. Condensing and overlapping what should be discrete areas, like a kitchen, bedroom or ‘front’ room, just highlights this as a compromise. To live in a small space, on a permanent basis, surely would drive a ritualistic behaviour based restriction rather than a sense of freedom or enlightenment?
So small space can get your life together especially in a great environment
Awesome....love it. Need all the links ....lovely.
Amazing.
very interesting!
This would be a really ideal set up for Hong Kong as well. Our mixed-use home spaces are pretty much laid out similarly. I wouldn't mind having an option of sharing a bathroom, but it's not on the cards for our culture. Our furniture and washing machines are exactly like his because we get them from Europe 😂😂😂 We do have one advantage, which is that we have to have air conditioning or we would fall apart, haha!
I like your concept... Giod job? 👍👍👌
It looks so spacious, I would prefer a private loo for the space, but hey ho looks really cosy 😊
Nice video of Jay’s space. Jay, they now have tiny air conditioners that you could put up in your loft.
Two steps above being homeless and barely a step up from a Soviet-era bed-sit. His rent, back in the states, might be a house payment on a decent property. Paris used to be a great city. His videos show good angles at good times. ¿ What would Baron Haussmann think if he saw what was occupying it now and what they've done to it ?