Introduction: The "single mansion" of Hong Kong's solitary youth, more than 3 million people bought 23 square meters of old and broken, helpless!
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Online question: 3 million, how big a house can you buy in your hometown?
In Hong Kong, you can only buy a 20㎡ "nano room".
I believe that many netizens' initial impressions of Hong Kong are obtained from Hong Kong dramas:
White-collar elites, fashionably dressed and fluent in English, weave through high-end office buildings...
Many of us are fascinated by this bustling metropolis.
However, as long as you know a little more about the city, you will see the hardships and helplessness hidden behind this prosperity.
Of these, the most powerless one is the housing problem.
In Hong Kong:
In terms of area, there is no minimum, only smaller.
On design, there is no most cattle, only more cattle.
Today's case comes from Tung Chou Street, Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong, a 38-year-old house owner of a young man living alone.
The apartment is only 211 square feet (about 23.6 square meters) and the price is as high as 3 million.
Fortunately, the layout of this house is quite square, basically there is no partition, and it is more convenient to transform.
But it is not as friendly as our one-bedroom apartment in the mainland, and there are still many defects in the old house.
(The key is that the price is 10 times that of an apartment in the mainland)
For example, the bathroom area is small and wet, the living room is very narrow, and so on.
For this inexhaustible small apartment, let's see how the designers "fixed" it.
Before designing any house, you must first understand the needs of customers, and you can't mess with the template.
The owner of this case is currently living alone and has no intention of getting married for the time being, so the layout of the whole home only considers the living habits of the owner of the house.
From the living room to the entrance, looking around, a white, for small apartments, white is the safest, most prominent color.
On the left-hand side of the entrance door is a half-height shoe cabinet, and on the right hand side is a transparent display cabinet.
For homeowners who have a hobby of collecting, this place can put some of their favorite collections, and they can see it as soon as they enter the door when they go home, and the mood will be much more comfortable.
In order to make the owner look brighter, auxiliary lighting is added to the cabinet in many places, which not only makes the small home more bright, but also has a sense of atmosphere.
The style of the cabinet is also the use of bright pure white, coupled with the handleless design, which can reduce the presence of the entire group of cabinets.
The enclosed shape of the sky provides a lot of storage space, which is completely sufficient for one person to live alone.
After passing through the entrance and turning left, this is the living area, which takes into account the functions of the kitchen and housekeeping room.
Rail sockets are installed on the wall, which is more convenient and flexible for small apartments.
But the kitchen space is too small to fit the traditional refrigerator.
The owner can only install a mini embedded Xiaoice box under the pool to meet the needs of daily refrigerated food.
The washing machine is planned under the stove, a small square inch, but the designer stuffed 4 functional areas, it is not easy.
Of course, the side wall surface can not be wasted, install a few hooks, which is the debris hanging area after entering the house.
There is a small swing door next to the kitchen, which is a bathroom that integrates the functions of shower, washing, and toilet.
Considering that the bathroom is originally very dark and narrow, the overall color matching must also be based on a clean and bright white system, so as to minimize the dull and depressing feeling.
Next up is the design of the living room and bedroom.
The width of the living room can't be changed, but this TV background wall is a hole in the sky.
Because it's not just a video wall, it's also a sliding door to the living room that separates the bedrooms.
In this way, the door can usually be pushed open, the space of the bedroom and the living room will be integrated, and the two spaces can have an enlarged effect.
There are more intimate places, in order to increase the lighting of the kitchen location, but also to make the bedroom more open, the side partition of the bedroom adopts the form of transparent glass interior window.
Although the bedroom is a separate space, in fact, both sides can be connected to the outside space, thus playing a multi-angle amplification of the visual effect of the space.
Glass naturally to install curtains, usually when there are guests, you can pull down the curtains, so as to ensure enough privacy.
The bed throughout the bedroom is also a custom cabinet design, similar to what we often call tatami mats.
Open the mattress, the bottom are all storage cabinets that can be opened, and usually some miscellaneous items and seasonal clothes can be placed here.
This is the decoration cost of the whole house, for the old house, the walls, water and electricity need to be repaired and replaced, so the overall cost will be relatively high.
Hong Kong is really a place with little money.
In the past ten years, Hong Kong has launched tens of thousands of nano rooms.
The area of the house has dropped from an average of about 20 square meters at the beginning to 12 to 16 square meters.
Although the area is getting smaller and smaller, the occupancy rate is as high as 80%, which shows its popularity.
In the face of such a small area, but extremely high housing prices, but also spawned a group of interior designers who can turn decay into magic, so that small homes can also shine.
Finally, you can talk about your views on nano-rooms or small apartment renovations in the comment area.
That's it for this issue, thank you for reading.
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