Would you rent a 2 bed apartment with no bedroom walls?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Chiming in on the “large studio” side.

I’d only want to live there if it was just me. Even in the best relationships, people need an opportunity to retreat from the world and be alone from time to time.

22

Not for normal living, absolutely not. I need my space and I need my privacy.

One extreme situation might be if I was looking to rent a space for a one or two days a week only, like maybe a consultant who works from home out on the burbs, and wants somewhere close to downtown to crash/change clothes/shower on occasion. Especially if the other person was also in the same situation. No one is really “living” there, but it’s enough like your own space that it’s not like a hotel. That’s got to be pretty rare though, right?

This also reminds me that I had a sublet like this with a roommate years ago. Our apartment (our normal apartment with two tiny bedrooms) had been damaged, and we needed a sublet for about three months. We had received one lump sum from the insurance for temporary housing, and we were young, just-out-of-college people with entry level jobs. Every dollar we could save on a sublet went right into our pockets (or you know, for beer). Of course, our sublet was not NEARLY as nice as the room in your photo, it was very right-out-of-college level, and the two beds were more like Bert and Ernie beds, right next to each other. It worked because we were friends, we were still close to our college-age dorm living years, and we knew it was only temporary.

23

Well…harder than picking up your laundry, anyway!

(This is California. It might not be possible to get the construction permit.)

24

My undergrad had a set of apartments that were designed by art students in the 70s. They were completely open plan, designed to house 7 students on three levels with nifty balconies and cut outs between levels.

The trick to them was that people would move in thinking they were a good idea, and then quickly move out when they got fed up. So the kids who could stick it out would eventually end up in this huge space shared between 2-3 people.