You know apartments are too small when furniture companies start making loft beds for grownups.
Furniture company Casa Collection is building a line of loft beds for adults, with prices from $7,000 to $20,000. Curbed first reported the collection.
Why? “The recent opening of New York City’s first micro-apartment building, as well as the nation’s increasing embrace of working from home,” according to Casa’s site.
About that building: Carmel Place, on East 27th Street, launched rentals of its 55 tiny studios in December and saw immediate massive demand.
A shot of Casa Collection’s workshop in Brooklyn, where the loft beds will be made. Note the models!Francis LauferThe mayor has even proposed building more of these so-called micro-apartments — as well as reducing the minimum mandated size of apartments in the city — in order to combat NYC’s affordable housing crisis.
The loft beds are king- and queen-size, with room underneath for some combination of cabinets, closets, a desk and a daybed. The bigger size is 114 by 82 inches, while the smaller is 96 by 64.
They’d fit easily into most studio apartments, allowing residents to fit extra amenities underneath. Just make sure you don’t hit your head on the ceiling!
Casa designer Roberto Gil says the beds will debut at Architectural Digest’s design show in March — and that all of them will be made in Brooklyn. Naturally.
