This is so dope!! A man turned his one room studio apartment into an apartment with four rooms using origami type walls! Who would have thought that the same technique used to make paper cranes, flowers, and more could turn out to be so useful?! Eric Schneider basically quadrupled the size of his 450-square-foot Manhattan studio while creating a bedroom, office with a library, a guest bedroom and a living room! Check out the origami apartment after the jump.
Meet one of the few people in New York for whom less is more. Third-grade-teacher Eric Schneider quadrupled the size of his modest 450-square-foot Manhattan studio, with help from architects Michael Chen and Kari Anderson of Normal Projects. They fitted the space with a large cabinet, home to walls, a bed, shelving and closets.
Calibrating every inch of available space, Chen and Anderson managed to squeeze four rooms out of the space, folding out of the center cabinet. The final studio apartment is complete with a bedroom, office plus library, a guest bedroom and a living room.
Schneider, who paid $235,000 for his studio, dropped 70K on the remodel — not bad for a four-room apartment in Manhattan. This compartmentalized style of living, however, isn’t new. Schneider’s home has nothing on this Hong Kong apartment, which creates 24 different room options.
