small nyc living room ideas

what is going on members of the barrio it's jon coming to you from new york and 4 months in mexico i am finally back home and with all my travels i've always taken you guys to different hotels different airbnbs but today for the first time i'm going to be taking you guys inside

my actual apartment in new york and give you a little bit of a tour of what it's like to actually live here welcome to the inside of my building as you can see our doorman quit many years ago no we don't have a door man we don't have an elevator

and the good news about that is you live in a walk-up apartment in manhattan the price is definitley going to be cheaper the flip side to that is that your doorman will watch your mail and it's extra security so.. i guess there's a bit of a trade off folks we are going up we are going that way 4 floors up when you live in the fourth floor of a building

without an elevator you pick and choose your trips wisely i don't like just to go outside for no reason i always like to bunch things up take out the garbage go to cvs stuff like that it also makes me humble when i travel

because if i get an airbnb in another city and i've got to take stairs usually it's not as bad as this and this is where i spend most of my year we have made it to my apartment and you know a lot of people when they come in here they don't think it's to small

until they turn right here and they realize well.. there isn't a whole lot of space the apartment is approximately 350 square feet it is a 2 bedroom apartment i live here with my twin brother and yes we somehow make it work the bathroom.. there's not much to show here the coolest part about the bathroom

i think the shower curtain being a travel vlogger every day i'm just reminded of places i want to go you can just.. kind of look around show you where i've been 4 months in mexico the tub is actually a decent size

i have no problem fitting in here i wouldn't say this is like a japanese style bathroom where you can barely fit your feet.. on the toilet and then close the door it's enough space for one person at a time to use the bathroom but it's not big at all we're going to start with my twin brothers room and this is actually not my twin how's it going guys

i am related though this is mike yeah he's kind of related i guess somehow he's actually crashing here for a night he's my brothers room warm he can't complain i don't want to show his room to much he's got a cool map here

my room is pretty much exactly the same it's almost identical to hiswe're going to get there in a second this is the living roomslash kitchen at the same time i gave you a quick shot of it before a lot of things in this apartment have multiple uses when you have a small space you've got to be creative

let's start with the couch if we move these items you actually can fold this couch out and it turns into.. a bed we've had a lot of friends throughout the years sleep here this couch can stretch down the hallway and yeah we can sleep people another very important thing

if you are planning a really small space mirrors everywhere mirrors are great especially when you have good light coming in it gives the illusion of space when you don't have to much the refridgerator is a bit of a shrine to our traveling addiction we've got stuff from all over the world we like to collect money

from different countriesmy brother was in japan we've got singapore from a friend this is my favorite right here the che guevara cuban bank note three pesos chile poland random photos from when we were kids you guys might recognize this girl right here

we do have enough space to cook. we have a normal size oven. plenty of shelf space for dishes big sink the refridgerator itself plenty of size we have a full size freezer here back to the theme of conserving space this table.. i'm not going to do it

but it can pull out here and you can pull it out from this side to if we wanted to have a dinner party here for.. 4 or 5 people we could get this table to take up a lot of the kitchen here again you always have to be thinking.. what can you put in a small apartment

that will make a lot of sense and not take up to much space now we're going to go to my room where i spend the most time it's just enough for me to be honest with you you can see i have enough room for a little desk a full size bed

mirror.. great for projecting space when it's really not here i've talked about how i used to be a broadcaster these are some old media passes that i've had.. different games jets. different places that i worked bowl games all sorts of stuff definitley nice to have

some shelves like this we actually built this got my suitcases up there actually i have all of my shoes i can never travel with this much stuff that's what's cool my laptop.. that i used to edit with

we've got some genesis playing before greatest hits my television adriana actually made that for me right there closet's really not to big i don't know even know what the heck this is was a masquearade party i went to a while ago got my clothes here suit that i never wear anymore

i think i wore it to a wedding it was the last time i've used it in ages i bought these little.. shelf things for our clothes the bed's pretty comfortable we've had this bed for.. the 6 years we've been in the apartment if you have an apartment in new york city

there's going to be at least one fire escape i have the fire escape in my room theoretically i could go out here i usually don't see a reason to we don't really have much of a view it's kind of one of the trade offs sometimes you can't even tell what the weather is like unless you go out there and actually lean your head out

this is my little room i'm going to take you guys to one more spot in the building and then we're going to talk about how much you actually have to pay for this welcome to the roof top of our building we are in the heart of greenwich village right now when i talked about pricing

here. you have to factor in this is one of the most popular neighborhoods in all of manhattan for very good reasons of course we've got an absolutely spectacular view of the freedom tower and all of downtown manhattan you must be curious how much does this little apartment cost in the heart of greenwich village the answer is

my brother and i pay 2700 dollars combined... about 1,350 dollars each to live here when we actually move in it was only 1,000 dollars each the rent has gone up every year for the last 6 years which is kind of the cost of living in new york city it is very expensive

it is a lot more expensive then almost any other place i've traveled in the world but i would not trade this location for anything i'm not going to live here forever in fact i'm probably going to be moving in the next year or two but.. to spend.. a nice chunk

of my late 20s and early 30s living in greenwich village in manhattan when i'm not traveling it's such an exciting city you spend a lot of money you don't get a lot of space for me

it is completley worth it i'm curious tell me in the comments would you live in this apartment with somebody else do you think it's to expensive? compared to where you're from do you spend more money? let's get a little discussion going alright guys we've got a lot more coming up from new york city in the next month

and then a trip.. to another country but i haven't announced it yet make sure to subscribe to this channel if you are new thank you so much for watching until next time

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