Man turns closet into living space

[katty]

more:
http://www.wptv.com/content/financialsurvival/survivingthesqueeze/story/Delray-Beach-man-lives-in-77sqft-closet/SJAvaTujWEeUIEcuGE7Zdw.cspx

DELRAY BEACH, FL--Almost everybody has heard the phrase, "Home Sweet Home", but what about "Closet Sweet Closet"?

That's right, Sergio Santos' home is a closet. Five and a half feet wide, by 14 feet long, or 77 square feet, to be exact.


"I was really struggling to pay for the place I used to live. I decided to look for something cheap." said Sergio.

The rent is $150 a month and to furnish his pad, a whopping $64.

"I have just become very well-fitted here," he said.

The "room" is equipped with a small microwave oven and a mini-refrigerator. He shares a community bathroom with other renters on the same property. The closet is part of a living space above a restaurant.

[WI_DEM]

1. I have to admit he has it fixed up nice (see slide show within article)

but where is his bed?

[madeline_con]

3. Yes, it's cute, and lots of Asians have the same size living quarters.

He has a plastic spider on the edge of one of his shelves. I do silly stuff like that, too.

[katty]

5. maybe he has a mat or foam pad rolled up?

[Richard D]

6. Look up

[WI_DEM]

9. Oh yes, now I see.

[KoKo]

11. There's a video of it at the site, too. Incredible how he squeezed it all in.

A closet with windows, though. It would be hard to live without light and air.

Thanks for the post. Fascinating.

[madeline_con]

2. This is exactly the type of situation the new census reporting techniques are for.

Despite the "what's next?" alarmist types here on DU.

[Toucano]

4. How much do we really need?

The question we have to ask ourselves continually.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. More than that unless you're really impervious to claustrophobia

[Toucano]

10. I am sure the answer varies for each of us.

The important thing is that we honestly ask.

Many large (subjective, I know) living spaces are occupied by things, not people.

[FiveGoodMen]

13. Yeah, I get your point.

I'm not really arguing with it, either.

But I couldn't live long in a closet. There needs to be a little more open space around me than that.

[LeftHander]

8. Electronics factories in China have four girls living in that size space....nt

[NYC_SKP]

12. That's huge. In NYC, at 227 Sullivan St. there were 6ft. x 6ft. apartments.

With stall shower, toilet, combo sink/oven/reefer/2-burner cooktop.

Ground floor, so room over the shower for a loft bed, (11 foot ceiling).

I was the super for the building, Burt Kagan was the landlord.

Burt was sent to Rikers and voted one of the "10 worst landlords" by the Village Voice.

I lasted one year. My first task was mopping up blood from when the last super beat the hell out of a tenant.

:fear:

[bulloney]

14. Must be hell living in there after a night of beer and bean burritos.

[Liberal_in_LA]

17. It's a closet with a WINDOW!

[Berry Cool]

15. I've heard of people living "in the closet"

but this guy really takes it to the limit.

[Withywindle]

16. I had a roommate in the early 90s who did that.

We had a walk-in closet in our place, and he took it, fixed it up reasonably well with a little futon pallet and a bookshelf. (Sleeping and reading were what he cared about most. :))

It was the FIRST Bush recession. We were all recent college grads. None of us was making more than $5 an hour (that was me, and I felt like the rich one). We had five people in a 2-bedroom apartment--and none of us was part of a couple with any of the others.

The guy who lived in the closet was actually very openly gay, and his jokes at his own expense were endless.

[Dappleganger]

18. Interesting, but if that's a spider or one of those shelves

there's no way I could share with it.

:scared: