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When life gives you lemons, make lemonade — and a before and after video of the process.
To many non-New Yorkers, the idea of living in a studio apartment is unthinkable, the space far too small. Indeed, a video taken by TikTok user Tiffany of her new 300-square-foot unit before she added any furniture is quite bleak.
While the empty flat appears recently renovated, with a clean white paint job and well-laid wood flooring throughout, its single wall of windows and cramped layout hardly seems sufficient to fit an entire life.
An after video showing the crib post-furnishing, however, makes it clear 300-square-feet is workable.
“My 300 sq ft NYC studio before,” Tiffany, who goes by @tpayne0 on the platform, captioned a short clip showing the empty unit, then “After” she wrote in text over a video panning its moved-in appearance. The video — set to Dean Martin’s “Everybody Loves Somebody” — has racked up over 1.8 million views, 119,000 likes and more than 1,000 comments since being posted late last month.
In response to popular demand, Tiffany, who calls herself “another NYC transplant,” posted a follow-up video showing her small but quaint bathroom and going over where she sourced her art and furniture from.
Though Tiffany may have made the most of a small situation, in terms of having a truly tiny unit, other New Yorkers have her beat by hundreds of square feet.
“This gives me a place to lay my head, make food and be on the computer,” 6-foot-2 comedian Ron Ervin told The Post last month of his 100-square-foot West Harlem pad. “If I brought a queen-size mattress into my New York apartment, it would crush me to death.”
The unit, which Ervin found on Craigslist and pays $950 a month for, doesn’t have a stove nor its own bathroom (he and his neighbors share a toilet and shower located in the hallway).
“I have a little countertop next to the sink on which I placed a $10 hotplate and a George Foreman grill I found in the hallway,” Ervin noted.
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