{"id":303972,"date":"2026-07-23T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T18:35:12","slug":"how-a-small-space-coach-maximizes-her-750-sq-ft-nyc-apartment-for-family-of-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303972\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Small Space Coach Maximizes Her 750 Sq Ft NYC Apartment For Family of Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a 750 sq ft apartment in Washington Heights, small-space coach Khrystyne Jaspers<\/a> made one room serve as living room, dining room, office and bedroom, and calls the trade-off her family’s best decision.<\/p>\n

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When Khrystyne Jaspers<\/a> and her husband went apartment hunting at the end of 2020, everyone told them to find a two-bedroom. She was pregnant with their second child; the math seemed obvious. Instead, a realtor called about a listing that wasn’t what they’d asked for at all. She fell for the layout and the light, and the offer was accepted within twelve hours – a New York City miracle, she says.<\/p>\n

The family of four is still there, in roughly 700 to 750 square feet “depending on who’s counting,” steps from a park and the train.<\/p>\n

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The main room does nearly everything. By day it’s where she and her husband work from home, office supplies tucked into a hutch. After hours, the same table becomes where the family eats dinner together. At night, a Murphy bed comes down. Elsewhere, a legless table anchored to the wall gives the kids a breakfast spot without the visual weight of furniture, and a piece of wood she and her brother pulled off the side of the road became a sliding shelf for coupe glasses. A former kindergarten teacher, she dedicated the bedroom to her two children and her play space, prioritizing their growth and development instead of an interior design checklist.<\/p>\n

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One kitchen cabinet became an art station after she pared down her own storage: supplies in grab-and-go tins, paper in stacking drawers, a play kitchen that folds back into its box. She redid it one summer as a surprise. Her son recently told her it was one of his favorite gifts.<\/p>\n

The apartment is a sacrifice, and she’s direct about that. But it’s what lets her say no to extra work to be with her children, and take them abroad – neither possible with the family’s income tied up in more square footage.<\/p>\n

“Home really is my family,” she says. “If this all disappeared, it would not matter, as long as my family was with me.”<\/p>\n

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