Furniture-Free In A Rented Apartment | House Tour
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- How have we changed our lifestyle and our home over the last 4 years to get more movement in our everyday lives and what effect has it had? And how can you get more movement into your lives, even if you live in rented accommodation?
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You're training hand stands not because you now have room for it but because you are a weirdo.
Ummmm, thanks?
And you are judgemental because ...? Personally, whenever I judge people(which I try not to do) it is because there is something lacking in my life. I didn't feel loved enough as a child is the top reason for me.
@@smallhouseinthemeadow6131 You’re great, have a nice day
Does "weirdo" in this context mean flexible and healthy? ;)
He has fun and joy in his life unlike you locked in your box of being an arsehole?
Omg, the amount of time, energy, thought, life, research, experience, humour that went into this video.. UNDERRATED
YES it slayed me
After moving several times and struggling, my new rule is to not have furniture or anything that I cannot move by myself.
Mine as well. There are a few items I love, but could not handle alone. Makes it so much easier deciding what to keep. I get antsy sitting still. Like rocking chairs and gliders and hammocks and swings.
I know this too well. Carrying couches and beds up narrow staircases is the worst. 😔
This . I’m always moving every few years for career, and I hate lugging furniture from location to location . I swear each time I’m going to keep all my belongings to a few bags. Of course it doesn’t always work but I’m trying .
Amen
Blow up furniture is very easy to move.
I am 64. I sit and sleep on the floor. I am able to get up off the floor; It's something like a yoga lifestyle (and you know how good yoga is for our flexibility! ).
Yes, motion is Lotion. Being old is not synonymous with inflexible.
I'm going to start. My grandma is pretty much immobile and my mom is getting there. I don't want to get like that.
@@seppyq3672 I'm sleeping on a topper on the floor and don't like sitting on the table with a chair. The furniture is anyway a burden.
I feel like I should be squatting while I reply to this..
I am heavily learning about minimalism as a form of therapy to help with sensory discomfort, and also to eliminate the idea that I am lazy because I don't like the management of stuff.
I didn't have a table for years because I hated trying to keep it clutter free. I'm incredibly sensitive to my environment, visually, audibly and with smell.
I need a clean space, yet I don't want to spend too much time cleaning and taking care of things.
My solution has always been elimination. But. No one else in my home feels the same way as I do.
I understand my ideas are considered radical, yet it makes good, practical sense to me.
I usually can't even finish explaining why I need to change my environment, before I am shut down and I'm told I am being unrealistic.
This video was very refreshing. I hit the subscribe and will see what else there is to listen to while I work later.
Thank you for understanding the importance of more movement in our lives.
I don't live this way but I do not think you are being unrealistic. I'm sorry you're in a position where people don't listen. Many people just live on autopilot and i don't know what the answer is when you live with others.
I think it's quite disrespectful that you have a medical reason for needing this and they don't even want to listen. Do you think that they could compromise and have one room of the house that is kept clear for you?
I have started telling people that when they start paying my rent, they can decide how I live.Or I politely tell them that I don't mind their business, so perhaps they should not mind mine.
100% agree with you and feel the same. my partner respects my wishes and understands it’s sensory related
I am down to 6 pillows, 3 chairs, one bench, 3 side tables, one bed, one desk, one bar table, one shelfing unit. I have no TV since 2004, no sofa since 2017, in space I created by not having "living room" is now meditation/excersize/laying lazy moments room and I have there also one full stand mirror. I am ready to shred my bed, bar table and 2 bar chair and 2 side tables. All massive improvement in my posture... as you said it does take time...to adjust...to clear programming... others label me weird now... I am very happy, ready to downsize to tiny home full of meaningfull quality practical beautiful stuff... life is good 💜💙💚
Maybe 5 years ago, seeing a video of a dude standing on a tray of pebbles in his kitchen would've made me think "WT-actual-F? Crazy hippy!". Now, well into my health journey, I'm jealous of the fact you get to hang out on that lovely uneven floor with the sensation of pebbles on your bare feet, and I'm stuck with some boring flat lino. Time to raid the garden!
Glad I found this video. I've honestly always preferred the floor over chairs. Sleeping on the floor can be unfamiliar the first time, but when you get used to it, it can feel really natural and the sleep is usually better for me.
Just searched for "Living without furniture" since I've been trying to sleep on the floor recently. So glad I've found your video, very funny and nice editing!
Thank you very much, im glad you liked it and enjoyed the editing :)
I love that you still own books! I love books and it annoys me that every single minimalist video says “oh just use digital everything”. People tell me to use subscription services and eBooks and digital notes and everything. Not my style. There are many things I can change in my life without getting rid of my DVDs, CDs, books, and notebooks.
Btw there are 7 people on earth. There are just a lot more. Lol.
Yes. I prefer books for health reasons.
You made a rare but excellent point about getting used to it slowly. A few years ago I went completely furniture free in one day, and found myself laying on the floor a lot (because sitting on the floor for hours was too uncomfortable and I was out of shape). I didn't know it then, but my body actually got used to the horizontal position - it's called deconditioning - and it has had a lot of severe and adverse, but luckily impermanent, effects on my health. So it certainly is most important to do the transition mindfully and slowly. Excellent video!
@SenhorBrilhante Well, we (doctors and I) are currently considering if I could have CFS/ME, so I have a hard time figuring what symptom is what (maybe my hypothethical CFS just started around the same time as I went furniture free? I thought it would bring me more movement but bc of my illness it just locked me on the floor?). In any case, my symptoms when spending a lot of time horizontal on the floor included (and still do all the time) fatigue, weakness, headache, joint+muscle pain, neck tension from sleeping on the hard floor, feeling dizzy upon standing up, generally ill/feeling worse when upright. But yeah that's pretty much the symptom list of ME and no matter how much I try to bring movement/exercise into my life, they don't get better. Go figure, maybe one day! 🤷🏼♂️😁 Anyways, you can google 'symptoms of deconditioning' for more objective information. Have a good day friend!
Don't feel bad for people thinking you're weird. I live in the USA and the only actual furniture I have is a couch that I never use (I have it for guests to sleep on in my apartment)
Sharing this to my friends because you laid out all the points in a funny yet informative way. I'm living furniture-free in a furniture-filled house for almost the entirety of my life 😂 because I'm the 'weird' family member who used to play with my toys on the floor, sit cross-legged, and used to jump back and forth on the sofas (because the floor is lava 🔥) when I was a child.
Been sleeping on a denser mattress on the floor too all this time and it baffles them when I always stand up from the floor the moment I wake up in one swift motion. Now my grandma, my mom, and my younger brother developed bone problems (ostheoporosis, scoliosis) and they really can't do more wider / freer movement and also scares me too. They can't even sit on the floor.
What a great entertaining yet interesting video, very creative production. As a dancer and choreographer I love how you encourage movement culture.
One thing I would like to add: As a person growing up sleeping on mattress on the floor I reccomend to turn around the matress every 2 month or so, at least till you have something beneath. Becouse if not the mattress will start to mold faster then you think which is very unhealthy to sleep on.
This made me more aware of my body and made me not want to get rid of my furniture but maybe make a spot furniture free to try and to create the obstacle course for my poor indoor cats 🐱
I'm very impressed with your lifestyle & being confident enough to be different. I've considered the folding Futon too. I've got many empty beds, and I'm going to count my chairs now.
Different perspective, I lived in Japan for 2 years and I slept on a futon, the entire time I felt like my body was never fully rested and I had more aches and pains but when I came home and slept on a softer bed it was the most amazing thing ever and many of the issues I was dealing with cleared up. I love the idea of eating and spending more time on the ground though, those are the aspects I do miss.
Thats interesting, i have met a few people who have seriously tried furniture free but couldn't sleep on the floor. Maybe floor sleeping just isn't for you, maybe if you were a caveman you would have just stacked up a huge pile of animal hides and leaves to sleep on :P I love it but im sure it just wont work for some people.
The other thing is that you may have transitioned from a soft bed to a hard bed too quickly, if you go from a soft bed to a hard bed with no transitional period your body might never get used to the new situation, even after a long period of time. The same thing can happen to people trying to transition to barefoot running to quickly, they rush the process and end up never getting used to running barefoot properly, and have loads of issues with they feet instead.
@@Movementum hmm that is definitely a good point and something to think about. I did spend 3 months in a training center learning the language where I slept on a bed that I would call an in-between so I didn't go straight to the futon but who knows maybe if I was more intentional about the transition I would enjoy it more :)
I used to have a futon when I was very young and I slept fine. But that shifted as I got a bit older (I know u are young). But, I am a side sleeper, so I need a mattress that has give and better conforms to my spine’s natural curve. Plus, I have sciatica, so I use a cushion wedge between my knee to raise my hip so it doesn’t sink. Futons on the floor are like a firm mattress for me - painful. So maybe this is the case for you? But also, maybe I prefer some elevation off the floor when I sleep.... Sitting on the floor, however, I do like.
LDS mission? You sound like my sister who served there.
Your house looks really fun! I like the idea of the obstacle course. Also, that handstand you did was epic! Not to mention the splits.... Keep it up, and don't let go of that jolly sense of humour of yours. 😁
As each of my children moved out I gave the all the furniture they wanted to take to give them a good start . I gave them all dishes and such . And I still had so much stuff left . That opened my mind up . I liked the clear open look. So I started selling the rest , and donated dishes that were extra that was left. And I find every year I get rid of more . Because I don’t use it. My husband comes home a lot with more stuff from his jobs . I sell it and he don’t mind . I do hv a kitchen table and four chairs and my queen bed. I’m not tired of these yet. U are on point about ur history, u must be history major .
The music was EVERYTHING !!! I love how creative you got with your edits, the file check file check was hilarious, I read every word of the written rant you added afterwards so I just wanted to tell you that it doesn’t go unseen at lot and brings a lot of fun to your videos !!! 😊 thank you !!
This was thoroughly delightful to watch. Planning on moving soon and less furniture = I don't have to rent a moving truck.
Thank you for being the inspiration I needed!
The round sitting cushions are known as a zafu. They might also be called a meditation pillow by some people. There are many artistic ones as well as plain ones available. Also, to other commenters looking at floor sleeping options, searching for Japanese Tatami mattress may help, as well as the term Shikibuton. The tatami would be the lower one, then the shikibuton (or shiki futon) would go on top. If you search for just "futon", you will see lots of the couch futons and 6" + thick futon mattresses. Shikibutons are 3" thick in Japan, and some are sold as 4" thick in America.
hahaha here I am back again, two years later :D I went through a whole process of living furniture free for a while then buying some furniture again because my parents and friends complained that there‘s nowhere to sit at my place- and consequently losing all the space to sit and sleep on the floor 🙈 and now selling it again because I was actually living my best life when my apartment was living furniture free 😄 so now my plan is to only buy cardboard furniture if I ever get the urge again because this has taught me I can‘t have nice things 😂
Hii...from India
I have a squat toilet in my house and toilet room is separate than main bathroom..which is so thoughtful.
In India, you will find mostly squat ones.
One good thing about no furniture is it's WAY easier to move to another apartment or house. Heavy furniture that you can't put in your car and move by yourself makes you feel tied down. Immobile. And then when you want to get rid of it, that's kind of a hassle, especially if you have a house full of big furniture. You have to try to sell it or donate it.
Brilliant apartment tour, thank you for sharing!
Have you heard of "squatty potty"? It's similar of what you made for the toilet but maybe a slightly different body position.
I hate eating in a chair. I have bad manners in public bc I have to sit criss cross or have one leg on the chair. Floor eating is much better.
You don't have bad manners, other people have bad rules 😝 society has imposed a strange rule on us that says we must sit in one way, they are the incorrect ones, not us, be free and sit on all chairs as you wish. (Ps. At first I read this comment as "I hate eating chairs" and I was just going to reply "I hate eating chairs too" and leave it at that, then I realised I was wrong and decided I had to write a proper reply..... Anyway, this comment has got much too long now, I'm meant to be making my next video, so long fellow furniture free person)
@@Movementum 😆
I'm like this too. I prefer sitting on the floor
@@Movementum I love eating chairs.
I sit criss crossed on chairs too! :)
Haha brilliant, the filing bit made me laugh out loud. So creative to slow and warp the music. Writing this from the floor now, got off the couch halfway the vid. Thanks and very fun to watch 😄
I liked your existentialist musical beat. Also, I love that there are plants and actual stuff in your house. It looks both lived-in and open.
The video is great, especially the music bit ;-). Keep on making such great content.
I loved every second of this video!!! Thank you so much for uploading it and to all the work you put into editing. I am now subbed and am looking forward to watching your other videos!!
Great video! Loads of great ideas and funny too. Thanks :)
Great research! Thank you. Love the humor too.
Really enjoyed this video! Thank you!
Love your video. Thank you for sharing!
Your videos are great, keep it up!
You guys took it to the next level, wow! Also very funny editing.
Awesome video! Thank you :)
May you be happy, healthy and evolving
This was so informative! Thanks. 😊
Wow!super eye opening and inspiring.thank you❤
You’re funny. 😄 I subscribed. Thanks for this video.
great video! thank you
Now that we are stuck at home, this comes very handy and makes so much sense.
Great video. Thanks
Very interesting. Thank you so much! ❤
Unique content. Enjoyed
Love your video!
such cool info + fun editing! subscribed 🤍
Great video!
love it!
Your keyboard solo was brilliant...
Thoughtful
I love that fireplace it’s beautiful.
I love your video because you are so relatable. you don´t have this *all perfect thing* but just a human living space and its the first thing I can really feel inspired about. thank you so much for that.
I love this video ❤️
You inspired me. Thanks a lot!!
That cobblestone tray is an AMAZING idea!
Thank you for this video. As a practitioner of yoga and fast aging, I really appreciate this encouragement towards "furniture free" living.
thank you for making this video! it really interests me and im gonna try it out :) i already do things like this, ive slept on a wooden board for years and love it!
Wow, really interesting
I love the music bit XD
Thanks, unfortunately it was the bit that took the longest by far, but I think it was worth it
Really nice video, informative and funny. A couple days ago I was setting up a workplace on the terrace floor and a low stool and realized how natural it was for me. Though, I’ve always had my legs and knees up at the table since childhood, as long as it wasn’t wrong. So I researched this topic and got somewhat obsessed and set up a work desk on the floor at home, too. So what I wanna say: If you’ve always had your legs everything else but on the floor when sitting on a chair, it’s gonna be easy to adapt.
watching this from the floor! great video, lots of interesting info and I love the positive/encouraging vibes. honestly I might make a scaffold pole beam, i wish wish we could have a slackline indoors but the setup is just too expensive - great solution!
My fav pieces of floor furniture are a 1ft folding stool (great portable dining table/laptop stand) and a large 2-tier wooden stool like the one your plant is on (so many ways to use it!) :)
This is one of my absolute favorite minimalist videos!! Love his philosophy!! 👍
Very interesting concepts. Its great to be young and more tolerant of things
Thank you
this is one of the best videos I've ever seen on this subject
Love it!!!!
Thanks mate, so many good ideas on your vid here. I loved the wooden block obstacle course and the rock tray.... hope you don't mind but I'm going to copy them.
I like to practice getting up off the floor without any help from my arms or hands.
That was really great. We rent. If we owned, then I would be installing a bidet and a squat toilet straight away. What you built is really inspiring, I could do that.. Thank you so much for sharing your process.
Thats the best video I saw
This is one of the best videos. I’ve always liked how the floor felt since I get home from an 10 hour shift sitting job. This video totally explains why! It makes sense why I always leave my mattress at night to sleep on the floor and find that my body is somehow naturally stretching and realigning itself! I feel so much better waking up on the floor . P.s. just bought a Japanese futon mattress!
Best video I've seen about why and how to rethink our relationship with furniture and movement. Thank you!
related to or inspired by practically everything in this video. subscribed!
Can't love this video enough! (And, yes Katy Bowman rocks.)
Great video! Definitely rekindling my interest in this kind of stuff (gotten too sedentary lately)
The hole in the ground toilet used to be the standard in France in public toilets. Much more hygienic since you don't come into contact with anything but the soles of your shoes on the base. The only problem I ever had with them was that the flush was so violent, it was best to push the button and leave pdq. It takes a bit to get used to and now I think they're all gone, replaced with the 'normal' toilets in more or less clean-looking areas with music playing and sometimes you have to pay to use them. The first time one of our kids encountered such a loo, s/he went in, locked the door and then came back out very quickly, looking shocked and horrified and said "someone's broken the toilet and taken it away". S/he wouldn't believe me that that was actually the toilet. I thought that was really funny.
Good job
I LOVED! your music bit. Absolutely hilarious 😂
Okay i already live furniture free and thought I had explored all the aspects of it. But you blew my mind when you got to the obstacle course and the cobblestone tray. I've got some new fun things to incorporate now. Thanks for sharing! :) I also love how you find ways to do woodworking even in a rented apartment.
love how you guys use tiffin-style pots - something i've hung on to from my parents! i grew up in southampton - first gen immigrants ftw :D
"This star was once used as a decoration, now it hides a great secret."
Me: subscribed!
I just moved across the country and I have no desire to buy a couch lol people think I’m crazy. I have a bed and two plant stands. That’s my I furniture at the moment. Terrified of being judged hahah
You also have some furniture to aid in floor sitting and floor sleeping
Your history of chairs segment is fascinating.
You Are so cool 😄 greetings from France
Nice Video :) Keep going!
Thank you very much :D
Man this guy is so funny! And in such a nice natural way
Loved this! Your video was recommended after researching for a shikibuton. I’m about to sell my western bed and get one. I’m so excited!! Now, I see what you two are doing and I’ll start using chairs less and see how it goes. Thank you for this informative and really entertaining video!💖🌘
Why a shikibuton? I looked and found prices between $150 and $5500!
@@147569238 Because they are widely available and I want to sleep on the floor. I need a bed that I can pick up and store during the day. I’m loving the space I have now! Besides, we spend just as much or more on western mattresses and the things that have to go with them.
Thanks for the comment about taking your time to go furniture free .... I am a believer but taking my sweet time to get there. Much push back from my family. Some health stuff too.
The fireplace looks realy cool..netter than nothing!😉
Really good video. Jokes on point!! I don't know why you don't have more subs and views. Just subscribed mate ^^
Glad you came up with a solution for the toilet, as sitting like that without any support is hazardous as unbalanced pressure can easily break off the toilet seat from it's ground and let you fall
Or with time it will shake the toilet seat from it's place
Thank you so much for these wonderful videos. This is the first one I watched and then I watched a few more. I just came back to leave an appreciative comment. It is clear that you put a lot of effort into these videos and must spend hours getting the timing right for the music and the pop up images. Plus you use a lot of humour. The vid with the cold water submersion was a huge commitment, especially doing it twice! I really appreciate the amount of effort you put into these videos and the valuable content you are sharing for the well being of others. I have started being a bit more furniture free and within just a few days I have noticed increased energy and awareness. I have actually tried this before when I lived in india for a year and I always looked back on that year wondering how I had so much strength, this video has helped to remind me of why I was so much more energetic in that year and I am so happy to start implementing this knowledge into my life style again but with increased understanding. So thank you so much :) P.S the couples parkour vid is super cute and talented, would love to see your partner in more of your videos :)
remember as a kid enjoying sleeping on the floor on a few layers of blankets. mind it was carpeted, but there was something comforting in that firm yet padded sleeping surface. comforting in the same way as compression wear or a snug hug.
I love this. It's something iv been naturally wanting to do for years after starting yoga. But didn't think other people did this. I always say I love movement... I just want to be able to mover around, without the abundance opportunities to sit, or lay down for nothing.
You are a breath of fresh air and hilarious as well! I am still laughing at the filming of the adaption to the toilet and then the use thereof ALL ON FILM! I would love to be your neighbor❤️
PS
I am sitting on the floor in front of the couch.
You. Are. Hikarious. And brilliant! Love it all 😊
I'm originally from Singapore and for 10 years of schooling life, apart from our classrooms, we sat on the floor during every assembly (which is about an hour everyday), school concerts, sports day etc. So we are so good at sitting on the floor. My home life is western though, so chairs abound. But I think that balance. made the difference for me. And when I see how so many westerners can't sit on the floor, I am quite shocked.
Though that said, we were furniture free for about 3 - 4 weeks when we moved into a new home and had to wait for furniture we bought to arrive, and we really struggled having to eat off the floor every meal (our 2 small children were 2 and 5 then) and sleeping on awful air mattresses were just yucky. But we were bed-frame free for many years too when our children coslept with us. And now I can't see how we can ever go back to that.
Great video though~ I love how weird you are. And all the different squats and positions you were in when talking.