Transcript of tiny studio apartment tour in london!

oh hello do you want to come in for a cup of tea [Music] this is it this is essentially the entire [Music] flat she's small but I really like her yeah our main criteria for moving into a flat were we wanted it to be a good price which in London quite difficult to find but it's still possible um if you know where to look wanted it to be accessible relatively easy to get to the city center all the usual stuff for me I definitely wanted character we used to live in a really modern apartment in Canada and I'm just over the white and gray and it was so hard to make our place feel homey so yeah I thought you know if we're moving to London we better live somewhere that feels like we're living in London and this place is it another thing that's crazy is is we had spent a few months when we first moved here living with roommates not ideal living situations and we were at our breaking point and we were just like we need to find our own place like we just we need to find our own place and move out within 2 weeks we found this place within 2 days of searching we were the first ones to come view it and we got accepted right away and the landlord he's he's a gem everything worked out it matched all the criteria even though it's tiny and it's a miracle I feel like most people would not say that about their move to London and trying to find a place um so yes I'm very thankful for this flat and yeah with that let me show you around so when you first walk in we have an entryway can you believe it we have an entryway in our studio it's literally the size of one person but just having this room for like shoes coats makes me happy and makes me feel like the apartment is bigger than it is we have some coats here some bags here this is really difficult to show um so like purses hats bags tote bags for grocery shopping boots and then I have this like console there's also this like side table storage unit that came with the flat and it used to be in like the main room but I have decided to use it for storing shoes which is really good um there's like a bowl here for like Keys laundry coins and then in here are our [Music] shoes this going to be really hard to show but there's like a door from our entryway that leads to our bathroom I'm going to show you all so the fan is going to turn on so apologies in advance for the [Music] sound but this is our bathroom shower sink toilet is hidden in the corner this bathroom was honestly an isore um and it was the ugliest room in our apartment out of the two rooms that we have this was the ugliest um and yeah I'm going to show you the before of what it looked like just so I can brag about how I turn this space into an oasis um but yeah this is what it looked like before it was really ugly I put in a peel and stick tile I got a really cute bath mat and I just feel like it gave the space more character I went with these checkered peel and stick tiles because I noticed that like checkered prints are quite popular for vintage tiles in London like if you walk walk around the neighborhood you'll see like checkered walkways and a lot of checkered prints so I kind of wanted to keep it somewhat realistic um so yeah we have the Checker tile my favorite bath mat that I've ever purchased in my life and I love that it's a half moon shape and it fits here perfectly but yeah that is our bathroom very functional does everything that you need it to do okay now we are in the main room of the apartment um I've closed this door which leads to the hallway I really want to know like what this building was before maybe I don't want to know but it does seem like this is the original door and the hallway the entryway and the bathroom were kind of built way more recently they kind of seem like makeshift so yeah this is definitely like the original door there's like original hardwood there but I'm very confused as to what this could have been like was this just a bedroom that in 2024 they've made all of the bedrooms in this house into Apartments because that's how sad our lives have become anyways this is our major storage unit it came with a flat and I also love that it has character it's honestly perfect you can't see but we have suitcases up here um and it's so big that honestly we don't even need any more storage cuz we didn't come here with a lot of stuff stuff and I want to be somewhat minimalistic so we have this is for two people okay this is for me and my husband so like this is what I mean by being minimalistic we have like pants coats um hello there's a mirror in here this is so smart when I first viewed this flat I was like kind of scared cuz I was like there's no room to put a mirror and then I open the closet that's what I love about this SP is I feel like there's a lot of smart things that have made me appreciate it even more this was also all built in room for sweaters pull out drawers pull out Shelves come on I don't know why I'm fangirling over this closet so [Laughter] much on AB corner of the apartment we have our bedroom and I'm sitting on our bed with outside clothes but for this video it's [Music] [Laughter] okay so yeah we managed to fit a full-size bed in here not ideal for two people I wish it was a queen but Beggars can't be choosers and we even managed to fit two desks in this apartment which is crazy um when we first moved in I'll show a video once again this flat looked so small and so much smaller than it is because I feel like the people previously didn't optimize the layout and they didn't really Place their Furniture well they didn't really have zones um like the bed was turned like this and it just felt so small and then when we came in here I was like we need to maximize space we can do it we can fit a couch we can fit two desks we you can fit a coffee table like it will work trust me and I'm really happy with the results so this is my workstation um if I'm working early and he's still sleeping the man is still sleeping I'll just plug into his workstation and yeah it works it gets the job done this was all Facebook Marketplace um I have my work bag here um recently got this little Ikea light because this corner of the apartment gets really dark as you you can see it's like 1:00 p.m. and it's already very dark so we don't have room for a lamp but we needed some light so we got that I have some little trinkets on my desk um water bottle basket for storage some books that is this corner of the apartment so I'm sure you already noticed but the kitchen is right next to my desk but I do like that there's like a backsplash here because it makes it feel like its own Zone and it's a well-defined Zone and I really like like this tile backsplash and yeah she's small but I managed to cook all of our dinners um I can even bake in here and I guess what I'm trying to say is if you're saying you can't cook cuz your kitchen is too small who are you lying to I also really like that it's like metal countertops when I saw this post thing for this place I was like that's kind of cool like I like it it's kind of funky this is really horrible lighting I know but this is our main and only window in this apartment but it's big enough I would say we have another workstation here we also have this portable kitchen island which I'm very proud of basically whenever I'm cooking I pull this kitchen island out it's perfect it provides a portable extension to this kitchen because there's like barely any counter space I have like drawers here with more Cutlery and and onions and spices and stuff so this was something that I thought was really smart and handy so I'm proud of myself for doing this also I tried to match the wood on here as much as I could to the desk so that it seemed like they would work well together and there's even the same white accents as on the desk so good so good [Music] I have essentially saved the best part of the apartment for last which is this side this wall I am very proud of it this actually covers the fireplace which is unfortunate because this fireplace was my favorite feature of the flat but I just we couldn't figure out any other way to make this work but this is the top of the fireplace we have some pictures up there um a plant which is the only plant in our apartment but yeah I don't have a green thumb I'm not trying to pretend I do I'm just happy she's still alive have some perfume I have like a little jewelry tray I love this built-in bookshelf when I saw pictures of that I was like sold like I just love little features like that the lighting is kind of weird in this video but I love the mushroom lamp that I put in the built-in bookshelf because it makes it really cozy this couch was actually such a steal we found it on Facebook Marketplace for like next to nothing um and it's super comfortable it actually folds out into a sofa bed um I'll show you guys so sometimes we'll do movie nights and we'll like have the movie going on there where the desk was and we'll just like open this up put a bunch of blankets and pillows and it's super cozy I also found this footrest poof thing on Facebook Marketplace um because of this couch is quite low and I think they match quite well even though they're like completely separate findes and purchases and last but not least this coffee table was my most recent addition to this apartment I literally got it like this past week um because I just felt like I wasn't sitting on the couch using it enough because I don't have something like to work on I can't like bring my computer here and edit stuff like that even eat honestly like I'm going to have some friends over for the first time in a few days and we can all just like sit around here someone can sit on the poof it's GNA be really cute so yeah this is definitely my favorite part my pride and joy of this apartment um but yeah that's essentially it so yeah that's essentially my entire flat um somehow this video took longer than 2 minutes which I thought it would take it to show the entire space but yeah um I hope this video helps to inspire you to make the most out of a small space and to show you that you really don't need a huge place to be comfortable and yeah with that I will see you in my next video [Music]