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Everyone must have heard of the subdivided flats in Hong Kong. They refer to small compartments formed by dividing ordinary houses, usually with an area of ​​no more than 10 square meters. The small home we are going to talk about today is a subdivided flat.

29-year-old Hong Kong girl Liu Tian, moved into a subdivided flat in Cheung Sha Wan three months ago. It only has an area of ​​100 square feet, which is about 9 square meters. It is so cramped that it makes people feel a little suffocated.

But even a 9-square-meter apartment like this costs 5,300 Hong Kong dollars per month, which is about 4,800 yuan. It's really outrageous!

Fortunately, there are four windows in the house and a separate bathroom. If you make good use of the space, living alone is quite good. Without further ado, let's take a look at what her home looks like~

Let’s talk about the layout of the house

There is not much to say about the layout of a subdivided apartment of only 9 square meters.

▲The inside of the house

It can be said that Liu Tian’s subdivided apartment makes full use of every inch of space, and not even half a square meter is wasted.

• A subdivided flat usually has two doors. When one door is opened, you enter only the public area. There are often three or five doors of neighboring houses around it, sharing the corridor. This is the so-called "one subdivided into three, one subdivided into five" apartment type.
• The shoes are placed outside the door, and the entrance of the house is packed full, leaving only a narrow passage leading to the house. The bathroom is right next to the entrance door, made into a space-saving folding door, which we will talk about later.
• The house is a square living space with the kitchen, living room and bedroom all squeezed into this small area. Fortunately, Liu Tian's subdivided apartment has four large windows, so the lighting and ventilation capabilities are excellent.

Entrance location of subdivided flat

Let's start with the subdivided flat.DoorSpeaking of location, let’s take a closer look at how people live in this 9㎡ subdivided apartment.

▲The door of the subdivided flat

The door of the subdivided flat is very small, less than 1 cm away from the door of the neighbor's house. In addition, the sound insulation is also very poor. Even if the neighbors are very conscious, they can still hear the sound of neighbors passing by or opening and closing doors at home. It is really the frustration of living in a subdivided flat.

Because the space inside the house is very small, everyone has agreed to put all the shoes in the corridor. After arranging them against the wall, only a narrow aisle is left. After changing shoes here, you can enter the house.

Use the space behind the door for storage

As soon as you walk into the house, everything you see is filled with all kinds of sundries and household items.

▲Storage behind the door

By sticking hooks behind the door and on the wall, it becomes a natural "entrance cabinet" in the home. Keys, bags, and other small items that you carry with you when entering and leaving the house can be stored here, which is quite convenient.

The coat rack was placed next to it, leaving only a corridor for people to pass sideways to the house. Because I had to walk along the wall almost every time, the wall surface had even turned black and had patina. It was really outrageous...

Liu Tian said that even though she usually pays attention to storage and organization, the space in her home is only 9 square meters. She has to pile things wherever there is space. It is not easy to achieve this feeling of order in chaos.

One-line open kitchen

Most subdivided flats have open kitchens, but having a small kitchen is nice too.

▲The small refrigerator next to the kitchen

I have seen many smaller subdivided apartments where people have to put a chopping board on the washing machine or cook in the bathroom. In comparison, the small kitchen in Liu Tian's house is pretty good. It not only has complete wall cabinets and base cabinets, but also can place a small refrigerator next to the cabinets.

Although this refrigerator does occupy the space of the entrance corridor to a certain extent, it can store her food for nearly a week. Fruits, vegetables or other tableware and kitchen utensils can also be placed on the refrigerator countertop, which makes full use of the space.

▲Kitchen countertop

In the kitchen, an induction cooker is used instead of the traditional open flame stove (in fact, open flames are not allowed in subdivided flats), and a sink is placed next to it. It is enough to cook for one person, but it is a bit awkward to cut vegetables because the chopping board has to be placed on the sink.

The cabinets in the subdivided flats are naturally not just for storing kitchen supplies. Take Liu Tian's home for example, almost all the clothes, hardware tools, and cleaning supplies are placed in the cabinets. Once the cabinet doors are closed, they are out of sight and out of mind.

The living room is also the bedroom

Turning around from the kitchen, this 9㎡ subdivided apartment becomes clearly visible, with the cramped space in full view.

▲Sofa background wall

It is the background wall of the sofa and also the background wall of the bed. There is no storage here. Instead, a large tree-shaped hanging cloth is hung to decorate the wall. It is the only blank decoration in the house. Coupled with the small colored lights around it, when turned on at night, it adds a lazy atmosphere.

Under the hanging cloth, a double-seater lazy sofa can be unfolded to become a small mattress. She has been sleeping on this mattress since she moved into the subdivided apartment three months ago. It has become a habit for her to fold and unfold it repeatedly every day.

Oh, by the way, there is a compartment above the head, which can store small items that are not often used at home, making full use of the vertical space as much as possible, and not even half a square meter is wasted. I am really impressed.

9㎡ subdivided apartment has 4 windows

What I didn’t expect was that this subdivided apartment of only 9 square meters has 4 windows!

▲The subdivided flat is bright and airy

These four windows make the entire subdivided apartment bright and airy. She specially customized a wooden board and installed it next to the window. After extending the windowsill, it became a small bar table. It is very comfortable to sit here and read a book, drink tea and look out the window.

But being able to live in such a subdivided flat is not just luck. Liu Tian said that the subdivided flat next to hers is also about 9 square meters in size, but has only half the windows, so it is 600 cheaper than the one she lives in now, which is outrageous.

Storage cabinet at the end of the bed

At the end of the bed, or opposite the sofa, there is neither a TV wall nor a TV cabinet, but it is used for storage.

For Liu Tian, ​​putting a TV and a TV cabinet is a waste of space. He can usually watch movies and TV series with his mobile phone and PAD. It is better to save the precious space and make a cabinet for storage.

▲Raising hamsters near the window

A hamster box is placed near the window to raise a hamster. Curtains are used at the bottom instead of cabinet doors to cover the sundries stored inside. She can play with the hamster while sitting by the window, which is a spiritual sustenance for her.

The cabinets on the other side have compartments of varying sizes, storing not only books and ornaments, but also her toiletries and cosmetics. There are even rice buckets and other kitchen supplies on the top of the cabinet. After all, the space is limited, so it is understandable that the storage partitions are a bit messy.

Private bathroom in subdivided flat

Many subdivided flats actually have shared bathrooms, but it's good to have a separate bathroom like Liu Tian's house.

The bathroom is located at the entrance and you can see it when you open the door. In order to meet the partition requirements without affecting the normal opening and closing of the door, a two-fold folding door is made to separate the inside and outside.

▲No way to separate wet and dry areas

It is naturally impossible to achieve dry and wet area separation in a bathroom of about one square meter. Even using a shower curtain is not feasible. The toilet and washbasin are squeezed in the corner, and the shower head shares the water supply pipe with them. It can only be said that it is just enough.

There are also shelves and a clothesline on the top of the bathroom, providing additional vertical storage space. However, you can only go up and down by standing on a stool, and it is usually used to store things that are not often used.

Clothes rack outside bathroom

Finally, let’s go back to the entrance hall and take a look at the clothes rack in the house.

▲Open clothes hanger

Liu Tian's clothes for all seasons are basically hung on the clothes rack outside the bathroom door. Its size is already the limit. Any more will affect the traffic flow, and any less will be worrying for the storage capacity.

Even so, Liu Tian has perfected her habit of decluttering during the three months she has moved in. Now when she buys things, it is no longer as simple as whether she wants them or not, but she prioritizes whether there is room for them at home.

It is precisely because of the existence of the clothes rack that the entrance hallway is so crowded that one has to pass sideways. This may be one of the frustrations and compromises of living in a subdivided flat.

Conclusion

At this point, everyone has followed the camera to learn about the subdivided flat of this 29-year-old Hong Kong girl. I wonder what you think about it?

I feel that not a single square meter of the 9-square-meter subdivided apartment is wasted, and with four large windows for lighting and ventilation, it is already very comfortable if you live alone. But I still find it a bit outrageous that such a small room is so expensive.

Come to think of it, although the place I live in now is ordinary, it is definitely better than this subdivided flat, so I should be content.If it were you, would you be willing to live in such a subdivided flat?

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