I just wonder which you prefer BIG, Average, or Small space?
When I first saw the name of this thread, I thought you were referring to the size of dicks or breasts!
Anyhow, I like average. A small apartment is OK at the moment because I live alone and do not have a wheelchair of my own yet (need one), but sometime pretty soon I am going to need something average, just big enough so that it would be completely accessible to get around in a chair. But, I do find that large/big places are harder to keep clean, harder to keep up with. I've had small, I've had large, I've had average/medium apartments and houses that I've rented. I have found that I do the best with average. Right now I have a small apartment cause it is what I can afford right now on my fixed income. I am hoping that sometime soon when I and my fiance are able to afford it, we might rent an average-sized house or flat or apartment (It MUST be a ground floor level flat/house or apartment. No stairs of any kind!). This is my second small apartment in San Antonio since I have moved down here from Minnesota. It is still in the same apartment building and complex, but the first apartment was upstairs on the second floor. That was fine when I first moved here, but about a year ago I started falling down the stairs and having accidents and I was so afraid that one day I will have a horrible fall down the stairs and actually break my neck or crack my skull open! :Ohno: So I asked the rental management office if I could possibly move downstairs to a ground level apartment for safety reasons and ADA accessibility, and they let me move downstairs at no cost. (That was before they dismantled and removed our damn wheelchair ramp about 4 weeks ago for no reason!
This apartment IS on the ground floor, but there are three steps from one end to the parking lot, and 1 step from the other end to the other parking lot). This apartment is still the same size as the one upstairs, though. It will do for now.
As far as bed sizes goes, I
hate twin beds. Like I said before, I live alone right now, but I enjoy sleeping in a queen size bed. I also have, on top of my regular queen size mattress and box spring, a foam queen size mattress. I chose not to buy a frame to put my mattresses and box spring on top of for two reasons: I am quite short and I do not want to feel like I have to "climb a mountain" to lay down, and also because I
HATE HATE HATE it when my cats go under my bed and play and make a LOT of noise when I am trying to sleep at night. That noise is godawful, I can feel EVERYTHING they do, and it keeps me up. So, no frame = no space for my cats to go under my bed = no noise! The bed is flat on the floor, and I like it best that way! But when I and my fiance get a bigger apartment or flat or house together, I want to upgrade to a king size bed with a king size foam mattress just because I like having a lot of space to move around in while sleeping since he is a big guy even though I am only 5'2 and 156 lbs (I was 180 lbs about two months ago but lost about 30 lbs from frequent kidney infections and them making me sick so much...thankfully the infections have abated).
In my bedroom I have a queen size bed, a ceiling fan with lights, very large sliding doors along one side of my room that leads to my balcony, a small TV stand with a 20 inch TV with built in VCR, a DVD player, a whole bunch of VHS and DVD movies, a lamp stand, VP on top of my TV, Tall 4-drawer dresser with a floor fan on top of it, and a small tall table, a computer desk with my computer monitor and tower on it, a computer chair, a little bigger TV stand that I have been using for my printer/scanner and for other small items, a plastic 3-drawer chest to organize all my medications, first aid stuff, crafts, and other stuff, a tall CD tower, a bathroom with shower and tub and a toilet, and a vanity counter with sink and two mirrors, one of them a medicine chest, and a walk-in closet with clothes hung on both sides, one side has two rails one on top and one on bottom for shirts and for pants, the other side is for long clothes such as dresses, night clothes, towels (I hang my clean towels there because I have no where to put folded towels) and 3 shelves for bedsheets and for all other kinds of stuff in the closet, a hot water heater on top of one area of the closet, and then under that is the cat litter area. I also keep a "hamper" for dirty laundry in the closet as well. It's not an official hamper, but I bought this and not the regular hamper because my cats like to pee on my clothes, so I needed something that is completely solid plastic with no holes or anything so my cats can't go on it and pee on it. (No, I refuse to put down my cats or give them away to shelters just because they pee on things. That's not fair. My cats are still happy and they do use the box most of the times, but they do make mistakes. I have accepted this and do not mind putting up with it because I often find ways to combat this by doing things as using a particular plastic bin with a lid as a hamper instead of a regular hamper, and it works for me). I keep a folded chair near the bathroom vanity counter so I can sit down while brushing my teeth or doing my hair or doing my make-up, since I cannot stand up for very long. I also have central heating and AC in my bedroom, although it does go throughout the whole apartment. I just keep my bedroom door closed to keep the heat in my room to keep my electric bills down. This is just my room. My room does sound big with all this, but it is not. It's not that messy, either. It's actually rather simple., the way I have set up my room.
As for my living room, I have a reclining chair and a paisian chair, and a tall 5-shelf bookcase that is mine, another 20 inch TV and a dry bar that I have been using as a TV entertainment center and storage area, and the dry bar also has two glass shelves as well which is supposed to be for alcohol and whatnot, but I use it for my knicknacks and other little things. There are also two tall floor lamps, and some cat furniture and a scratching post for my cats. There are cat toys all over the apartment, including my bedroom. There is a door that also opens to the balcony, as well. There is a coat closet in the living room, too, that I keep my coats in.
Then I have a kitchen with a eat-in counter and dishwasher and regular counters on both sides, a refrigerator, pantry, cabinets on both sides on the top and the bottom, and a stove.
I do not have a dining room, and do not care for one. I do not even have a dining table. Well, I do have a folding table, but I keep it stored away since I never use it. I never eat in the kitchen. I eat at my computer all the time. I also do not have any couches as well in my living room, I just have not bothered to buy a couch when I moved down here, and I am not in a dire need of one, either. I had three couches when I was in Minnesota, but they got dirty when they were being stored in the barn after I lost my apartment there, and well....ew. The chickens and the roosters and hens and turkeys shat all over them. By the time I was ready to move, I told the owner of the farm to go ahead and burn the damn couches and the bed and all the other furniture there. I didn't want to touch them, with all the bird shit. Ew. I had enough money to buy new stuff when I got here to Texas anyway.
That's all.
Not that small for me..
