"Alba's favorite thing about the small apartment, located in Paris' Montmartre neighborhood, is what she enjoyed about the tiny rental studio apartment right away: "the calm and the light, and being able to live alone," she writes. "Even though it's a small space, I love it when I can invite some friends and listen to music, smoke cigarettes and talk for hours, and I used to love sitting in front of the window during COVID to read and feel the sun in my skin.""
""I like that everything in it now was chosen by me and that I got to make the space look like this by making tiny changes that adapted exactly to my needs, so in a way it feels very organic and related to my life," she writes. The location is incredible, too. "I love the coziness of it, and the contrast between being inside and going outside to such a beautiful and nice neighborhood, always full of people and tourists," she writes."
Alba Pagán is a freelance translator who fits her passions for books and culture into a 195-square-foot studio in Paris' Montmartre with a part-time dog roommate. She has lived in the space for ten years and has continually adapted it as needs evolved, adding and removing items and making small upgrades like painting the bathroom pink after COVID. The apartment emphasizes calm, light, and the ability to live alone while still hosting friends. Everything in the space was personally chosen and adjusted to feel organic to her life. The neighborhood offers cozy contrast and long-standing cafes and bookshops.
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