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I just moved into my first apartment (that wasn't subsidized by the university). Considering the stuff that came in with me, I'm surprised there isn't more Ikea, but in our family we're big on reusing things. My bed is, quite possibly, the bed I was conceived on (yeah, gross but better than a stranger's bed)- it's a custom 48-inch captain's bed that we brought over from Hong Kong. With the original 48-inch mattress, and a bookcase/storage headboard behind it. It's the only thing that would fit in my bizarrely shaped bedroom. No sheets properly fit it! But I love that bed, when we came to Canada, I slept in it as a kid.

I also have this ridiculous seafoam-green sofa from Hong Kong, older than I am. It is also beloved to me, as I remember lying on it in the basement when I was a kid and loving the fake-leather coolness. Apparently it used to be light blue. That's how old it is. It has water spots and things and it's terribly out of date, but it's so awesome.

The "coffee table" is actually a glass-top end table, because I couldn't fit a full-size coffee table into my space without crowding. And it matches the couch size. I always consider coffee tables here to be too low to the ground, anyway. I don't want to have to reach down to put my drink down, thank you.

I actually think that, in my entire something-less-than-300-sq-ft apartment, there's only the bookcase from Ikea, and that's because I have a lot of textbooks. I plan on ripping out the paper backing eventually and stapling something more interesting in, not that you'll be able to see it on the bottom three shelves because of the tall textbooks. There isn't an Ikea too close to me, that's why- if we buy from there, we have to ship it in ourselves by minivan.

Anyway, my conclusion is that things from Hong Kong are better sized for apartments, because man do they know how to fit things into small spaces there. If there was a Hong Kong equivalent of Ikea that was selling here, I would be there in a snap.

Beautiful, and it looks so roomy that I almost can't believe it's 300 square feet. Props to you.

Love it! My new apartment is pretty much this exact size and I'm at a total loss as to how to decorate around it. This is really giving me some inspiration!