{"id":163639,"date":"2023-03-14T10:52:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=163639"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:27:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:27:16","slug":"169-square-feet-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/14\/169-square-feet-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"169 Square Feet in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_163648\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163648\" class=\"wp-image-163648 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img-5781-small-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-163648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Meg Bernhard.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Las Vegas apartment complex was advertised as a fresh start, a place to reinvent oneself. With only 169 square feet in the so-called \u201cmicro-studio,\u201d there was simply no room to bring much of my past life with me. I was not seeking reinvention, but I <em>was<\/em> looking for cheap rent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I arrived in late afternoon on a warm fall day. New friends had invited me to go camping in Utah and were soon to depart, so I tossed my few belongings into the studio without taking much stock of the space. I did, however, note what I would come to call \u201cthe bathroom situation.\u201d Along the apartment\u2019s eastern wall stood the shower and the toilet, both separated from the rest of the space by only a curtain. The only sink was the kitchen sink. Well, I thought, that pretty much eliminates the possibility of anyone staying the night. I showed up to my friends\u2019 doorstep tired and sweaty, and as we chatted, the last member of our camping caravan emerged from his bedroom, hair damp from a shower. I snuck a glance into his room. His room was basically\u00a0the same size as my entire micro-studio, and contained many more things\u2014paintings from Chile, philodendron cuttings in blue glass vases, and, in the living room, even a large white rug and a recliner.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My tiny apartment, as I named it, was fine for the time being. Utilities were included in the price. I had a desk that doubled as my dining table, and enough cabinets to use for my clothes. There was a kitchenette with a mini fridge and a two-burner stove, where I made, nearly every day, toast and eggs sunny-side up. When I showered, steam filled the room, and the dracaena I\u2019d just bought seemed to like the humidity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One night, I invited my new friends over for dinner. I owned very few kitchen essentials, so I used a Crockpot Express to steep risotto in wine while I used my only pan to saut\u00e9 onions. It would take a full day for the smell of caramelized onion to dissipate from the apartment, and, over time, I began to worry that the scents of all my meals had fossilized in my linens. The philodendron man made a comment about a YouTube video he\u2019d watched\u00a0on micro-studios in New\u00a0York. Why, we wondered, were there micro-studios in sprawling Las Vegas, where subdivisions and suburbs were more common than even regular-sized apartments? When we left to go eat in the courtyard, our arms full of pots and plates, one of the friends said she\u2019d stay behind. She needed to use the bathroom, but didn\u2019t want anyone else inside at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because I lived alone, I normally didn\u2019t close the curtain to use the toilet. I closed the curtain only when I had visitors, which seemed like a performance of modesty, since the toilet was never going to be private. But there were not many visitors. One of my only guests was the philodendron man. The first time he visited by himself, I was nervous. I ended up overcooking the shakshuka I\u2019d planned for dinner, and when he arrived, the place smelled of burn. We drank wine on my bed, and he left. From a friend, I learned he was anxious about the bathroom situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When my kitchen felt too small, I\u2019d go over to his house to bake banana bread and roast brussels sprouts, and he and I would sit on the back patio, watching the wind in the overgrown weeds. In the winter, his laundry machine broke, so he would come over to use my facility\u2019s machines, and we\u2019d wait in the tiny apartment while his jeans were drying. He gave me two cacti and placed them on a ledge by the window. \u201cMakes it more homey in here,\u201d he said. Eventually, he started using the toilet, and around that time, he also started sleeping over. \u00a0His house sometimes felt too big; in the mornings, I\u2019d wake up earlier and make coffee in the kitchen, and he\u2019d join me later. But in my tiny apartment, there was no space for these different routines\u2014no space, really, to be anything but proximate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My lease ended last May. Now I live with two roommates in a three-bedroom house. We have a couch and a backyard, and I even have my own private bathroom with a door. Sometimes the philodendron man, who is now my partner, tells me he misses the tiny apartment. And I do miss the times when he\u2019d peel away from bed and sit on the toilet, trying to be quiet, or crack the faucet for a cup of water. Despite his attempts at silence, I\u2019d hear everything, and in my dream state I\u2019d think, How nice it is to have someone this close.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><em>Meg Bernhard\u2019s essays and reportage have appeared in the<\/em> New York Times Magazine, Harper\u2019s, The Virginia Quarterly Review,<em> and elsewhere. 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