More crazy apartment setups in my search for a new home
Searching for a new house sucks. It gets made even worse when the agents or owners use trick photography in order to try to make their place look bigger than it is or even worse, when they will take photos of some sort of "flagship" unit and then when you go to look at it, it doesn't look anything like what was advertised and now they are just wasting their time and my own.
I wish I could say the apartment search was going well, but it definitely isnt!
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I've gotten to the point now what when I see a place that is just "decent" I'm thinking I will take it. The search carries me all over town in the heat only to have very few of the units that I look at be anything like what is advertised and I used to pretend that I was interested when i tried all the appliances and what not but these days I am normally pretty honest right when they open the door when I say something like "ok, seen enough, nope!" Then I have a conversation with the real estate agent to stop jerking me around and just show me places that don't suck because I am not going to rent crappy ones especially if they use deceptive advertising.
Sometimes though, the design is just crazy and / or terrible and I've been finding a lot of that lately.
I understand that space is limited in these units but can you think of a more inconvenient place to put your clothes closet? You would have to stand on the bed in order to pick out a shirt. Certainly they could have done better than this.
This is actually extremely common and one that defies all logic in my mind. I have no idea what would compel a person to think that putting the fridge on the opposite side of the room from the food prep area would be a good idea. Why not just put in on the balcony? Or better yet, in the garage 4 floors down. It's far too convenient being in the kitchen at all if you ask me.
She asked me if I wanted to see a "smart condo" and since I don't really even know what that means, I agreed. Apparently it means a unit that is slightly bigger than a prison cell and is as depressing as humanly possible. That isn't just a photo of one of the rooms, that is the entire condo. The bed is in the foreground.
The second "smart condo" that I looked at would end up being the last one I would ever look at.
It was at that point that we had to go back to square one about what it is exactly that I am in the market for and what my budget was because there is no chance that I would live in that. I'm not trying to sound all posh because I certainly am not that, but I have slightly higher living standards than this.
I don't think that my words really resonated with her because this was the next unit she showed me and I just kind of chuckled when she opened the door. I don't even know where to begin with what is wrong here but for starters there isn't near enough crap in this room. I need at least three times as many useless knick knacks around my apartment. The broken decorative scooter on the far right is a wonderful touch to any living room ensemble. Also, I should have clarified that I need at least 50 light bulbs to be on in every room I occupy. They came close with their overuse of lighting here complete with completely unnecessary chandelier.
This was actually at the high end of my budget and I didn't even bother looking at the bedroom, we left as soon as we arrived. There is no way I would feel comfortable living in a place that basically looks like one of the rooms in an antique store. I expected price tags to be hanging from everything in the place.
So the search continues. I have another 3 weeks at my current place so it isn't terribly urgent just yet and at the moment I am actually attempting to renegotiate with my current landlord instead of moving out.
Have you ever seen some crazy apartment designs like this? I have lived in a lot of different places in the world but I have never been somewhere that has such an overall strange setup in a lot of the living spaces.
Those are some pretty awful examples. Renting isn't always easy in Asia but we are always faced with a real conundrum. You can buy all your own furniture and it will be better, but then you are going to be seriously restricted on how you can move, and where you can move.
Since most of the affordable furniture is that Ikea style stuff, moving things isn't always an option because you will likely break it if you move it.
i bought all of my own furniture for the more than a decade that i lived in southern Thailand. The Ikea style furniture i was able to move to the new location but it was never quite the same when I would reassemble it. I quickly learned to avoid buying that stuff unless it's completely form could easily be carried by one person. Like an endtable or something like that.
oh that last photo cracked me up. If you ever walked into that room carry groceries or wearing a backpack you would almost certainly knock over at least 2 pieces of tatt on your way to the kitchen.
even though I only needed one look to decide that unit was not for me I was scared of that happening :)