Survey #225 Response from Em
| Which of the following statements best describes your living situation? | Other |
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| If “Other,” please elaborate. | Previously, I lived on 18 acres with outbuildings. Now, I live in an apartment of about 900 square feet. |
| Describe rooms or areas of your home in which the lack of available space makes living, storage, decluttering, and/or organizing challenging. Be as specific as you can. | The only entrance from outdoors to the apartment is in the far corner of the living room, necessitating walking the length of the living room to get to either the kitchen or to the bedroom hallway and coat closet. These two paths chop a long triangle out of the living room between the only two walls where furniture can go, i.e. between the visitors or in front of a TV. (So I got rid of the TV) The carpet is white, so a place to change shoes by the door would be desirable, but the door opens into the only spot where a chair for that purpose would be, as the adjacent wall is the sliding glass door to a balcony. It is a large room, largely unusable. The dining room also has to be traversed to get to the kitchen. The door to it is on a diagonal from the door to the kitchen, and it has a chandelier hanging from its exact center. If you put your dining table in the center, your path to the kitchen is blocked. (If you DON'T put a table under it you will bump into it. if you are over 5’4”. (so I have an unsightly S hook shortening it.) This arrangement is extremely unhandy when carrying a watering can to the outdoor planters, or for carrying garbage and trash to the dumpster, which is about a 50 yard trek once outside. There is a laundry room, but it is so small that you can't stand in front of the dryer and open it at the same time. (It and the washer are the smallest models available. Some tenants had to take the laundry room door off and leave it off because that was the only way to fit the washer and dryer in.) There is no place to iron clothing or do hand laundry. There is no room other than the hallway to sort laundry unless it is kept in the bedroom. The bathrooms are too small to accommodate a litter pan unless it is right in front of the toilet, necessitating climbing over it or the toilet to get to the bathtub or shower. There is no place by the sink for a hand towel, and the holes in the built-in toothbrush holder are too small for toothbrushes. The medicine cabinet is behind the door, so you have to move the space heater to close the door so that you can open the medicine cabinet. (That's right: no heat vent in the bathroom, and the only place for the space heater is in the path of the door!) |
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