Our studio apartment is quite crammed, but there are some pros to living in such a small place.
My best friend, Valerie, and I have been living in a studio apartment together for almost three years now.
We found that it is cheaper for us to rent an apartment than to stay in the dorms on our college campus. One of the hardest things to do is find places for all of our stuff. We have had to be creative in coming up with ways to keep our things in convenient locations but also hidden enough not to make our apartment look like a cluttered mess. There is at least one pro about living in our small apartment though. We are able to save a lot of money on rent. Renting even a one bedroom apartment was almost twice the price of what we pay. Another huge plus is how easy it is to keep our apartment cool. We are in school down south, so almost year round, it is warm outside. It only takes one small window unit to keep our entire apartment cool, and it cost so little. By the time Valerie and I split the electric bill, we end up paying very little individually. Our air conditioner is really old, but it hasn’t had any trouble keeping the apartment cool. It has started to leak quite a bit, so I think we are going to have to get a new one pretty soon. We only need a small one, so we figured it would probably be cheaper to just by a brand new one than try and get someone to come fix ours. In the end, living in a studio apartment definitely has its downsides, but keeping it cool is super easy!