Help with Studio Apt
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Comments (2)Your best bet will be to rent from an individual, not a complex. Properties run by management groups generally have to be very specific in their requirements (equal housing laws) and you are unlikely to qualify with no established credit, no rental history, and without a stable work history. So look for someone who is renting a room or a guest house, something like that. Check the paper. People who are renting directly will be less likely to care about your history, but even then there are no guarantees. Good luck....See MoreNeed help converting garage to studio apt!
Comments (8)You can be creative with the building department regarding some permits. As long as they don't know your real intent.. It's not uncommon to have water and electricity, or even a bathroom in a "detached workshop". What is your plan for heat? What is the climate? You don't want plumbing on outside walls. Will you have a dedicated circuit panel for the "detached workshop"? Get electrical, and plumbing all roughed in. Get an inspection. Good with the City, and then finish your detached workshop into the apartment. What you want to avoid is going through all this work, the city getting tipped off and having zero permits for anything. Then there's a good chance they'll make you tear the walls open to inspect after the fact. Also, an oven is what makes a space into an apartment. Building and planning departments get REALLY hung up on an oven in more than one room. So you would not want any indication given by the electrical that an oven is going in. That wouldn't be wired in until after inspection. I understand your position though, the less the city knows the better. I understand it quite well....See MoreCoffee table size for small studio apt
Comments (6)Cool coffee table! Just because you're in a small studio apartment doesn't mean you have to decorate like you're in a college dorm. There are other issues I'd deal with ahead of the coffee table. The rolling cart, ladder shelf and the low crate for books and plants need to be replaced by real furniture. Be careful that not everything you furnish the room with is leggy and spindly. A tall, substantial piece of casegoods on the white wall will serve to visually counter balance the brick wall, and provide you with storage. The little primitive ladder with the plant hanging on it would be interesting hung horizontally on the wall above the sofa. You could put industrial style clips on it to hold interesting black and white photos. Shop for a slim long table tall enough to fit over the AC unit and fill that recess. That's where you can arrange your plants and some of your decor....See MoreSomeone please help! Help me with furniture/decor argmnt in my apt
Comments (4)I advise you forget about all the extras—art, shelves, dining table. You need to start with the bones of a room. Where are the doors and windows? How large is the room? What shape does it have? Starting with your bedroom, measure each wall of the room and write down the number. Draw a rough outline of the room and put the measurements on it to help keep them straight. How far is a door (to closet, bath, etc.) from a corner and which way does the door open. How wide is each door? Main doors and closet doors open into a room and determine where you cannot put furniture by their swing. When you have measured all these things you need to create a floor plan. You can print graph paper (aka quadrille paper) from HERE. I like the 1/4-inch. If you need a larger grid just trim off the edge of a second page and tape it to the first so the grid is uninterrupted. Draw out your measurements so that 1 foot equals 1 inch (4 squares) on paper. Every square equals 3 inches, but you don't have to worry if the drawing is a little off. Draw in the doors and how they swing open. Next, measure the length and depth of furniture you want to put in this room. On another sheet of graph paper draw the outlines of your furniture, including the TV, to the same 1 foot equals 1 inch scale. Label each piece and cut them out. Now you can move these around the floor plan to see how they fit. You need a minimum of 36 inches for pathways between the main door and the bath and closet doors; 42 inches is better. Will you have enough room to stand beside the bed and open a dresser drawer? Only after deciding where furniture can/must go can you move on to decorating. Do this for every room you are having trouble with. In fact, before you buy an L-shaped sofa make sure it will fit without causing trouble moving around it. Here are some rule-of-thumb guidelines for decorating: Part 1 Part 2 However, the rules for art don't apply to TV placement. The middle of the TV screen should be level with your eyes when you are seated where you will watch. This is a guideline. It's OK for it to be a little high, but you don't want to put strain on your neck either....See Moreapple_pie_order
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