To live in a tiny flat is an art of compromise. You get used to loving your kitchen which doubles up to be a dining room, your hallway which doubles up to be a wardrobe and your balcony which doubles up to be a graveyard of those things which you can not quite justify keeping at home but at the same time you are not ready to discard. Any city dweller, who finds himself in a tight spot, knows it well enough to find the need to escape into the city-centre as a breath of fresh air, and that is exactly why 迷你倚 has turned to be not so much of a luxury but rather a reasonable extension of urban apartment living. Learn more!

The majority of urban apartments are built in an efficient rather than an abundance manner. Each cubic metre is counted and the space in case of overflow is virtually nonexistent. This will be evident within a short time. The winter clothes do not have any rational residence in the summer seasons. Eleven months of the year festive decorations are in bulging bags. Sports gear, additional bedding, used textbooks and childhood souvenirs all lay claim to the same small piece of land. Soon, the apartment no longer feels curated it begins to feel compressed. By transferring to a small offsite unit those things you need occasionally but not on a daily basis, your living room will be allowed to perform as it was intended to.

The mental alleviation is more difficult to measure but cannot be neglected. Disorganized surroundings produce some sort of low-frequency stress. It is not always something that you know consciously but your brain interprets all those unresolved piles as an open loop. Removing the visual clutter by putting other unnecessary objects aside does not only clean up a room but also silences the mental background noise that is energy consuming without even taking notice. The bedroom is more relaxing. The living room beckons you to be seated and unwind as opposed to organising in your mind what should be sorted.

It has a useful beat to it, too. Living in a tiny apartment means being constantly in the editing process, turning what is used and what is not stored and revisiting choices with the changing of seasons and situations. Mini fits in that beat. It is a sort of silent annexe: not so distant as to be of real use, but distant enough to be out of your everyday path. You pack and unpack camping supplies before an adventure, change the season dresses and jackets as the weather changes and get rid of what you do not need without any fuss.

Being in a smaller flat does not imply a smaller life. Even a small apartment could seem extremely spacious with the appropriate storage plan.