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To put this in a European perspective: the legal minimum floor area to rent out an apartment in France is 9 square meters, or slightly less than 97 sq feet. Ev
by othello 14y ago
To put this in a European perspective: the legal minimum floor area to rent out an apartment in France is 9 square meters, or slightly less than 97 sq feet.
Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective): the absolute minimum is a volume of 20 cubic meters [1].
Therefore in cities like Paris where flats with high ceilings abound, you find owners of big, old apartments with 3m high ceilings breaking them up in 7 sq meters (75 sq feet) "studios"...
250 sq feet is aplenty.
[1] http://www.adil75.org/pdf/av12.pdf http://www.adil75.org/pdf/av12.pdf (in French)
- alister 14y ago> the absolute minimum is a volume of 20 cubic meters Well, this is fiction, but I'm imagining just how much worse it could get: In "Futurama" set in the year 3000, Fry and Bender are living together in Bender's closet-sized apartment, and Fry complains that it's too small. Bender: "Not enough room? My place is 2 cubic meters and we only take up 1.5 cubic meters. We've got room for a whole nother 2/3rds of a person."