If you can’t afford a big house…

This design indeed make full use of house space, but do you dare to live in it? Even the rope is strong enough, we still can’t help worrying if we will fall off the hanging bed. What inspires the designer having such a creativity is long-time lack of living space.

Gary Chang, the designer of the compact house, lives in one of the world’s most densely populated cities, Hong Kong. After three decades in the same boxy, 32-square-meter(344 sq ft) dwelling he grew up in, he has come up with an innovative answer to the increasingly cramped lives of many urban dwellers.

“The idea is everything is moving. This is my laundry space,” Chang said, sliding away a wall filled with CDs to reveal a washing machine and dryer. By sliding another track-mounted metal wall that bears a plasma TV, a kitchen materialized. Beside that, there is a luxurious 1.9-meter bathtub that itself turns into a guest bed.

While people in other teeming cities such as Tokyo resort to drop-down beds and foldable futons, the award-winning Chang has taken the concept of space-saving to the extreme. His tiny rectangular apartment, tucked into the bowels of an old, nondescript tenement building, has polished chrome walls that bear 24 configurations, each suiting a specific need. The space available becomes a home theater, spa, kitchen, bedroom, chill-out zone rigged up with a hammock, depending on what Chang needs at any moment.

At a cost of HK$1.8 million ($231,700), Chang hopes his dwelling offers a viable, life-enhancing alternative for Hong Kongers who can’t afford anything bigger.

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