This dude LIVES IN a transformer!

I must say, I could never live with less than 400 feet of space, but this guy is ingenious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak

I was just about to post this up.

Brilliant. Less is more, if you innovate and utilize the space properly and remove clutter.

I think it's pretty cool. I have a big house, but I often wonder if it's just a reason to have more stuff...I remember when I was in college, all my worldly possessions would fit in my car and I was living in a 13' x 13' dorm room; life was a lot simpler that way.

maybe if he sold some of those dopey dvds he could afford a larger pad ;)

Makes me feel kinda bad about having 40,000 sg/ft for 3 people.

pinchvalve wrote: Makes me feel kinda bad about having 40,000 sg/ft for 3 people.

wow. we have 800 square feet for two people, and we get along pretty well without all of that crazy crap.

It is wicked cool though.

Very cool, but seeing as how I have 5 people living in 1100 square feet, I think he needs to down size. If he can get it down to 220 square feet I might be impressed.

When my wife and I first lived together, it was in a 2 car garage converted into an appartment. It held us, 2 cats, 3 bikes, and all our stuff. Now, I have a similar sized garage full of 2 cars and really really really important (just in case she reads this) car stuff, with three more vehicles and two trailers parked outside and a shed for the bikes etc. How times change.

How big are jail cells ?

Reminds me of Corbin Dallas' apartment in "The Fifth Element."

I saw this last week ... pretty intense

That's pretty cool, but hardly groundbreaking. A Murphy bed is like what? 150 years old design? It is interesting the way he has it all put together, but if that's city living, gimme the country any day.

I could do it... it is actually pretty cool.. but I have to wonder how it would work with more than one person?

if he were married and wanted to watch Tele while his wife wanted a drink?

Toyman01 wrote: Very cool, but seeing as how I have 5 people living in 1100 square feet, I think he needs to down size. If he can get it down to 220 square feet I might be impressed.

Yeah, but do all of you share the same kitchen, or do you each have your own? You only get to divide your total by 5 if there are absolutely no common areas.

I'd say it's fairly groundbreaking. Yes, a Murphy bed has been done before. But there's more than just a Murphy bed here. The sliding walls that allow rooms to collapse is pretty clever.

I'm not sure where the bathroom is. Communal for the building, perhaps?

I liked that quite a bit. I got my ass evicted in January, and I can tell you all the crap we have in this world is exactly that - and I never needed that 600sq ft apt. I rented for over 60k this past decade. Just wonder how expensive that would be as a pod on a vacant city lot - you can get a vacant lot in D.C. for 20k and up, so then how much to build this, mostly by yourself? Oh yeah, I'm finally making money again, so I could attempt this.

NYG95GA wrote: That's pretty cool, but hardly groundbreaking. A Murphy bed is like what? 150 years old design? It is interesting the way he has it all put together, but if that's city living, gimme the country any day.

+1

I have 1k sq/ft for the wife and I, are 20 min from everything, and i dont have to move 3 walls to get my coffee when I get out of bed. its cool, but so are concept cars...but I dont want to own one