Apartments

I’m Deeply Envious of Miles Morales’ New Harlem Apartment

You spend the bulk of Insomniac’sSpider-Man: Miles Morales suited up and swinging across the Manhattan skyline busting villains. But there are a handful of moments peppered throughout the game that bring you to Miles’ new home in Harlem, where he and his mother Rio move to give themselves a fresh start somewhere closer to her…

Apparently It’s Possible to Live in an Apartment With Too Good of a View

A building boom of supertalls in New York City is resulting in some of the highest residential units in the world—we’re talking apartments that are at a dizzying 90 stories and higher. So where does that leave the people who live in the former-tallest residential buildings? Don’t worry, they’re just fine in their 80th floor…

The 11 Shittiest Airbnbs Still Available for the Super Bowl

So you’re heading to Frisco to experience the glorious splendor of Super Bowl City, but you waited too long to find a place to stay and now all the hotels are booked! Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered, bro. We scoured the internet to find the best the sharing economy has to offer. Rentals are…

A Door-Bottom Filter Keeps Your Neighbors’ Smells Out of Your Apartment

When you live in an apartment or a condo not only do you have to put up with noisy neighbors, you also have to deal with their smells sneaking into your home via the hallway. A draft blocker is one way to seal off the crack at the bottom of your front door, but those…

This Tiny Home Uses Sliding Walls to Transform One Room Into Four

We’ve seen our fair share of transforming apartments around here, from MIT’s super-advanced version to this Ikea-esque wonder. But none of them can compare to the sheer inventive genius of this apartment, in which huge sliding racks make it possible to pack a whole household into a tiny corridor of space. It’s called the All…

This tiny apartment hides so many tricks to make it feel so much bigger

There are tiny apartments. And then there are ridiculously tiny apartments. And then there is this apartment. The only thing smaller than this 86 square foot apartment in Paris is a prison cell. Maybe. And yet this apartment hides so many tricks that it can transform itself to feel a lot bigger. I think I…

The US Cities That Allow the Tiniest Apartments (Not Where You’d Think)

The development of micro-housing—apartments and other dwellings smaller than 300 square feet—is a growing trend in many popular cities cramped for space. But where in the country can you find the teeniest examples of this trend? Maybe not the cities you’d first guess. Right now, the micro-unit leader in the U.S. is the city of…

These are South Korean apartments, not prison cells

There are three kinds of people in South Korea: those who make real money and live in real homes; those who make cents assembling your phones and share a room with six other people; and those lucky ones who make a few dollars and can afford these prison cells that they call “apartments.”

This Hanging Bed Is the Ultimate Tiny Apartment Hack

Creative ways to hide your sleeping space are as old at the first murphy bed, but this might be a first: The owners of this London apartment have found a way to maximize their living space without resorting to a bed that folds into a closet. If you’ve ever relied on natural light from a…

How to make the most out of your apartment space

If you have a small apartment, here are eight extremely useful and clever tips to make the most out of it. They are also very easy to implement, so bookmark for later today and get to it. https://lifehacker.com/8-ways-i-hacked-my-tiny-apartment-to-fit-all-my-stuff-1205167515

Millions of unemployed Chinese college graduates live in “ant colonies”

Every year, China puts out millions of college graduates who can’t find jobs. Without any possibility to have a house of their own, they go to live into huge compounds—often underground—where they share rooms and bunk beds. They call them the “ant tribes.” https://kotaku.com/a-look-into-the-homes-of-chinas-ant-tribe-1107163431

This Transforming Concept Apartment Is a Dozen Rooms at Once

Here at Gizmodo, we love us some transforming apartments. On top of being space-efficient, they are just so damn cool. And this partially prototyped concept by students at TU Delft is no exception. https://gizmodo.com/the-tiny-transforming-apartment-that-packs-eight-rooms-5967622 The “Pop-Up Interactive Apartment” is a 480 square foot (50 square meter) space that’s all one big room. At least when…

Gays Having Hard Time Renting Housing (But Not So Much For Lesbians)

A new federal study proves that gays are having a hard time renting a place to live—especially male gays. Landlords are less likely to rent to gay men couples, the Housing and Urban Development study reveals. Lesbian couples also face discrimination, but not quite so much.

A Pretty Little Map of All The San Francisco Apartments You Can’t Afford

The Internet is a great place to look at things you can’t have, and this clever map that cross indexes San Franscico real estate listings with location fits snugly in that category. At least the nicer districts do. The “Median Rent” map by Stephanie May takes a half-year’s worth of listing data, and boils it…

The Tiny Transforming Apartment That Packs Eight Rooms into 420 Square Feet

Living in New York City isn’t all adventure and dynamism. Unless you are wealthy the way no real person is, you probably have to settle for a living space that is cramped and cluttered. It is the project of Graham Hill, entrepreneur and treehugger.com founder, to come up with an ideal New York apartment—one with…

Apartment Hunting Is the Worst Thing, But iOS App Lovely Eases the Pain

No matter how you look at it, apartment hunting sucks. You could just drink your way through it or you could manage with Lovely, a new apartment search app. Oh, and you can still drink. When you’re looking for a new place to live, you probably typically search Craigslist or Trulia or something similar, but…

As expected, Craigslist is slowly rolling out a new Map View feature for finding apartments. Good luck huntin’

How To Find an Awesome Apartment On Craigslist

Looking for an apartment is horrible. But technology can help. If you’re smart, you can cut through the junk and beat the competition en route to a sweet pad. If you’re planning to rent in a city, your search is bound to go through good old Craigslist—especially now that its listings no longer appear on…

Apartments Designed for Motorcycles Are a Biker’s Paradise

Heading off to work on a rain-soaked bike is unpleasant, and paying for an expensive apartment with a car-sized garage is even moreso. So Japanese architects have designed the perfect compromise—an apartment complex that integrates a compact motorcycle garage into each unit. The NE Apartments are geared for bikers, with each unit’s double front doors…

Check the morbid listings for Hong Kong’s haunted houses

Hong Kong has one of the most expensive housing markets in the world, with home prices rising 70 percent since 2009. But a new real estate niche market offers greatly discounted home prices, if you’re willing to bunk with the former residents’ ghosts. Many Hong Kongers believe that the ghosts of people who died violently,…