Paris Room Tour: What a REAL chambre de bonne looks like!
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
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My name is Francesca, I'm a British 20-something currently based in Paris for my Master's degree.
Everyone seems to have been obsessed with Emily in Paris on Netflix, and it’s sparked huge debate and criticism for a lot of it’s stereotypes! One thing that made me laugh was her “chambre de bonne” apartment- which it definitely isn’t! I live in one of these former servant’s rooms and thought it’d be fun to give you a tour ☺️💫
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I am French and I must say: you are lucky because this is not what a chambre de bonne looks like! This room is a thousand times cleaner, modern and brighter. In real "French life", they put you in a dark cupboard like Harry Potter and ask you to pay 800 euros to hear your neighbours eating chips. And the toilet is in the corridor. So I'm happy for you!
I am definitely very lucky! My landlord lives in the same building and they newly renovated the room just before I moved in which I think is why it's so nice! Thank you :)
Couldn’t have been more accurate 😊
This video bellow is similar at what you describe
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If you’re feeling the lack of privacy you can hang a curtain by the window with a pressure curtain rod, it won’t ruin the walls and you’ll have your curtain!
Great idea, thank you! I ended up using a sticky plastic that makes it look like frosted glass, but curtains would be so much cuter!
Have you ever tried privacy window film? It sticks to the window with a little soapy water. You can cut it to size, maybe a solution for your bathroom wall.
This is a great idea, I'm going to look into this for sure. Thank you!
@@frenchcesca3988 Cute apartment and video! I was going to suggest that same thing for the bathroom. You can also find it under frosted vinyl, even on Amazon. And also, there are some kind of temporary paper shades o blinds, you can cut and install yourself, that I believe may help you with the big windows. I know they exist in France because I saw them on "Una mexicana en Paris" channel (A Mexican in Paris), and she, Mirella, bought them for her balcony (you can see them on the video where she redecorates her balcony, they seemed super practical. I also saw them on Amazon). Greetings from a venezuelan architect!
I would add, for exterior window privacy, a simple tension rod for the window nook and a cafe curtain. Tension rods don't need hardware and they're very inexpensive.
Just came across this video. Your chambre de bonne is seriously amazing, my friends one would literally just fit a mattress, a tiny closet and a desk 😂
Hahaha some of the chambre de bonne’s I looked at before mine were definitely questionable 😂
Perfect... when I lie in bed, I can grab my beer out of the fridge without moving... :-)
Your voice is so calming ~ as someone who loves to bake, I'd definitely miss an oven but the space looks great! I'm looking forward to checking out more of your videos :)
What a lovely apartment! I had a similar issue with some glass windows and privacy. I bought a roll of “frosted privacy static film” from Amazon and it is amazing! It sticks with water and it is super easy to remove and reuse so it is super rent friendly.
Thank you! I bought some of the frosted glass film recently and I love it, it’s made such a big difference ☺️
Interesting loo/shower design for tiny spaces. Thank you for sharing, most folk don't usually do the sweeping tour....
It's definitely a good use of the space! Thanks for watching 🤗
Just came across your channel! Can’t wait to see more of your life in France!
This is really cute! I can imagine sitting at the kitchen with a tea and enjoying the view ☕️
I do love sitting by the window and watching the sunset 💗
Not bad at all!!! In NYC you ger a smaller room with no bathroom, kitchen, probably just one tiny window for a $1,000. So youre good girl!
VERY cute 🥰 thanks for clarifying what one of these really look like
I would put the chair over the wifi box and put your laundry where the chair is. More out of sight when u walk in the door! You can buy window frosting in a roll it would work perfect in the bathroom. Buy some command hooks to hang curtains!!
That apartment it's so cute, and as so much potential of storage!
Thank you! I agree there's a lot of storage especially considering how small it is :)
Hi, despite your apartment being so small it looks so spacious and cute with lots of natural light.
Thank you, I totally agree! Glad you liked it ☺️
It's exactly how a chambre de bonne looks like in my dreams. Lovely.
your room is so nice and minimalist! you should do your daily routine in your room ❤️
Thank you for such a sweet comment! That’s a great idea for a video too ☺️
That is a very nice setup!
I’m thinking if you got an expandable tension rod to go between the walls either side of the kitchen over the window, then hang a fabric shower curtain , cut to the right length, across it for privacy and darkness.
It’s not permanent and would be easily removed.
Tie it to one side during the day, so you can open the window.
Same in your bathroom.
BHV would have them.
Whoever renovated this c de b did a lovely job!
Lucky you!🇫🇷
That's a really good idea! I ended up buying some privacy film that sticks to the windows but still lets in the light. I love it 🥰 Happy New Year!
Your room is one of the best I have seen.
Great light coming in.
In Germany are every flat/Appartement a bright room and is isolated by noises - also the windows.
Nobody is hearing your own neighbour and its calm in your home.
The most small Appartements are 45m2 to 75m2.
Thank you for sharing. Wow it’s really well planned. Just found your Channel and I’m are now a new subbie. Xx Linda
Thank you for your lovely comment ! I’m glad you liked it ☺️❤️
Look online for recipes but you can cover your bathroom glass with a cornstarch and water solution and then apply tissue paper for a frosted glass look.
Very modern and efficient. And you dont have an electric toilette! A big plus. You can’t put up shelves? So much bare wall space..? And you have a real radiator! Many pluses. Bravo!
My landlord did a beautiful renovation I am very lucky ! I’m not sure about shelves, I would probably hang my head 🙈 I’m pleased you like it!
Lovely space, however small, it seems beautifully renovated.
Thank you, I completely agree!
Your room is not too shabby. Most don't even have a kitchen. Also, Ikea has those frosted glass plastic window stick-ons. That may be a good alternative to window coverings. While you're there, you can upgrade your bed to a loft-bed which will raise your bed by 2 meters and you can actually put a small sofa in your room.
Yes my kitchen is huge for rooms like this, I'm very lucky! I got some window coverings recently and I love them, it makes such a big difference :)
Beautiful, I love your apartment
Love it❤️
Lovely space ❤️ a real Parisian experience
Thank you ! ❤️
Very nice for a chambre de bonne. Keep an eye out at flea markets and charity shops like Emmaus for a small septimanier (sp?) or narrow étagère. That could be the solution for the odd nook at the end of your bed.
That’s a good idea! I have some drawers there now but they’re just plastic... a flea market might have nicer options ☺️
Beautiful view and cute place❤️❤️💋🎄🎄🎄
Thank you! ☺️
My friend had a chambre de bonne with a double bed, but there was basically no room to stand, haha. But she didn't have her own toilet and her shower was in this tiny box that looked kind of like a tall fridge.
Omg I can imagine, well done to her for fitting a double bed in though haha!
Thanks a lot! Really interesting
Thank you, glad you liked it!
IKEA sells very cheap paper “blinds” that you could stick to the window. that’s what I’ve been using, and they work very good.
Centrakor has frosty glass sticker sheets for your bathroom window (and doors), and (as everything in that store) light weight curtain rods and narrow sheer curtains for your window, easily for under €20 for all 👍🏻 Love that store 😃
How much does one pay for such apartment in Paris, if I may ask (even a range)?
Très mignon ce studio très propre 🙂
Looks so beautiful! Is this place available now? Or any more in the building moving to Paris in October would be so greatful for any advice on finding an apartment 🤞🏼
As far as the kitchen window and night time darkness/ early morning rising, I'd put up a tension rod with a simple curtain that you can close. And, if you don't love the look of it in the day, it can easily be taken down and stowed away. I think that would give you a lot of privacy and would keep the streaming sun out in the morning. : )
Great idea!
@@frenchcesca3988 : )
You're lovely & your space is too.💖
Thank you! 😊 Happy New Year!
Do they not sell pressure rods in France? In the US they're $5-10 and you can basically put curtains anywhere without having to drill holes.
Thank you for sharing , years ago the room was included with the salary of the employee de maison .
Non the employeur did not expect the employee to watch their home (not in my experience)
The room was adequate a bed , a table and a vinyl clothing rack.
The only ithem that I did find useful was a black and white television for watching “Dallas” on Friday nights (Yes I’am an elderly:-)
The week-end were spent discovery our capital which needed lot of help and even more so today .
To think that it was a pastoral environment …..
They forgot that we all are sheeps in great need of The Shepherd !
May you have a good stay in Paris
Lovely ☺️!!! Please make more video
Thank you! I will definitely after Christmas ☺️
This video was one of the top suggestors for my videos so thought I'd check it out! €700 a month for your apartment is cheap by Dublin standards (similar here might cost €1600 or more 😳) love the channel just subscribed 👍🏻
I know right?! I am moving to dublin within 3 months and daft.ie is a hopelessness pump lol you cannot even get a en-suit room in a shared house in dublin city center! Maybe I should've found a job in Paris 😶
@@oykuuzunkaya7999 I'd try looking slightly outside Dublin, somewhere with a bus or train line! Should be slightly cheaper (and better) than the city 😄
@@KarynMannion I truly want to live in the city 😔, it will be my first time visiting and living in Ireland and dublin, I just want to experience the city to its fullest but maybe in a year I'll move a bit outside of the city, fingers crossed for a good apartment find 🤞
It's a cute space, and very good bathroom, but there's no storage. Where do you keep your things?
For added privacy in the toilet, try white liquid shoe polish on the kitchen side of the glass. It will wash off or scrape off with a razor blade.
I hadn't thought of that, thanks for the suggestion!
Cute little place. How much is the rent? Love the radiator randomly enough.
Does your rent includes water/utilities?
Wow, that's a beautiful little apartment😍
How did you find this chambre de bonne? I'd like to rent one in Paris too, for the next 3 months, but it is soo hard to find😔 Please tell me if you have some ideas and tips, I would really appreciate that😊❤️
Cute place
700 !! wahou !
Haa i love your apartment! It’s fit perfectly for a single person :) hope someday i could go to Paris and try to live in chambre de bonne xD
Thank you! It’s definitely perfect for me ☺️ I hope you can achieve it!
You could do so much more with shelves to take advantage of your available vertical space! And art, you need art!
Good video but it’s so small I could never live there I’d get claustrophobic alerte rouge pour moi 😂 bonne continuation
Haha I completely understand! Sometimes when I'm home all day I do feel claustrophobic 😂
I love it! Where did you find this apartament?
Thanks ! I found it on LeBonCoin
Big question im looking at similar apartment for uni in September. do you have an oven ???????
Unfortunately not, most rooms like this won’t have an oven but you can get small tabletop ovens (microwave size) quite cheaply !
Lovely chambre de bonne!! On which site did you find it? Was it difficult to arrange all the documents?
Thanks! I found it on LeBonCoin and it was hard to get some of the documents (like the tax documents because my parent's aren't French) but a lot of landlords are used to foreign students - this was actually the second apartment I viewed!
tell us how you got the apartment!!
I found it on LeBonCoin ! I might make a full video talking about how to find an apartment ☺️
I think that you made great use of the space! Would you mind telling us how much the rent for this apartment is?
Thank you! I pay 705€ per month, which includes rent, water and electricity ☺️
@@frenchcesca3988 Thanks! In my opinion that is a crazy high amount for such a super small space! I knew living in Paris is extremely expensive, but that just blew my mind! 🤯
@@kg0704 I agree 100% 😅 if I were to increase my budget to around 1000€ a month I could get double the size, I think they know students don’t have much choice so can charge what they like !
I’m a year and a few months late but happy birthday! 🎉
Hi Francesca! How did you find the place? I'm looking for one myself to move in August :)
Hi, I found it on a website called LeBonCoin!
@@frenchcesca3988 thaaaank you!! :)
1) Love the apartment! 2) I couldn't understand half of what you said - especially at 900 words per minute. 3) Why do so many posters feel the need to name off their items that are in plain view and clothes in and out of ward robes?? Honestly - curious. Any answers??
This is one of the nicer ones that I have seen. What floor are you on ? What arrondissement are you in? You could hang a curtain on the inside-of the bathroom for privacy for your friends. Enjoy your time in Paris.........🤗
I'm on the 6th floor! Definitely don't need a gym membership with all of the stairs lol! Thank you 🤗
Hi. Something very wrong with the audio volume. The usual volume I use is around 14. I have cranked it up to 100 and I still missed a lot of what you said.
Thank you for letting me know ! I’ll try and fix that for future videos ☺️
Oh dear
UniKent Spotted :D
Love the vlog only problem was the sound could not hear you..
Oh no! Thanks for letting me know I will try and work on it for next time ☺️
Did I miss it ? Where do you store your clothes ?
There's a built in wardrobe between the bathroom and the door :)
Cette chambre de bonne m intéresserait. est t elle à louer ou à vendre?
Il as combien de m2 sil vous plaît
10m2 😅
No curtains??? How do you get dressed??
Cosa studi??
How much is your rent?
Around 700€ a month including water and electricity :)
@@frenchcesca3988 i am so shocked, this is absolutely insane!!! I lived in Paris in 70m2 for 460 euros in the neighbourhood of the place de la république. not fancy apartment at all, but sufficient. paris is expensive, but not THIS expensive.
And how Big in SQM is it ?
How much is the rent ?
Rent is around 700€ a month for 10m2 ☺️
That is nuts. Sorry. Landlords should not be able to get away with that. That chambre de bonne should not be more than 550€.
It's definitely expensive but this includes all my bills like water and electricity 😊 Sorry I should have been more clear!
I think the price is quite reasonable since includes bills!! I think you could get shelve for the books either on the end of bed or even on top of the table!!
@@sec2355 That's Paris, this city is very expensive the only way to have something cheap in Paris is to be able to get a room from CROUS, and only a few students can get one because there are a lot of students in Paris.
Wow!
I hope you're busy enough with your job and everything and just sleep there because if I'm honest I would go nuts in this apartment without being rude. You can get blinds on ebay fir 10€ which you just so to say clip on the window. I'm subscribed now 🙂
I'm definitely glad I didn't spend lockdown here because as much as I love it, I think I'd have gone nuts too 🙂 I ended up buying privacy film which sticks to the window and works great! Thanks for the sub, happy new year!
so basically is a bachelor suite
Pretty much! Very common for students too
What a nice and FRESH and clean chambre de bonne! In which arrondissement is this?
Hello! Je m’appelle Seb, j’ai 20 ans et j’étudie l’histoire à Paris! Je viens de sortir une vidéo Room Tour sur ma chaîne si ça t’intéresse! ☺️😝
Why wouldn't you just add your own curtain?
Can you ask the landlord if you could fit curtain in there ? You have a right to privacy
Unfortunately the way the shelves are placed and the window opens it wouldn't work, but I'm going to look at privacy film !
@@frenchcesca3988 yes my friend has this double sided paper she put unto her windows to have some privacy good luck 😉
Check Pinterest for ideas. Maybe you can think on cafe courtains that you apply directly to the window wood panels with velcro. You dont have to cover the whoIe window so you wont loose the light that comes thru. I saw courtains made with burlap that looked interesting.
Why does France have these, but countries like Belgium do not?
Great question, I'm not sure! I know France has them because the rich families needed to have their servants nearby so they could look after the rich houses easily.
That's maybe because Haussmann's buildings were built to have the servants close to their superiors, but idk
Small,old
This is the biggest chambre de bonne ever. Definitely not typical or educational for people who are interested in living in those studios. However, it definitely gives Emily in Paris/Friends vibes. You are very lucky.
So tiny!
Definitely ! Sadly Paris is so expensive that this is quite normal for students
But for sure you good have put a curtains no?! Lazy English 😅
No, this is not a real chambre de bonne. It has all comfort. Une chambre de bonne has NOTHING. A bed, a table, a chair, a sink, a small window and it is hell in summer. No heating in winter. Iwonder how much is the rent for this rent. More like a studio. Actually people who owns several chambre de bonne are clever. They brake the walls and make some kind of appartments. In my time 1990, we had to pay cash. So that was illegal. Then I decided to install the telephone. I wrote a false letter with approval of the owner and got the phone. I left the place, and send the bill to the propriétaire!! They exploit you, making easy money on your back. I got my revenge. Now, things may have changed but I am not sure. Here we see a priviledge person. Still has to climb to the seventh floor with patience. Old people used to live there. Can you imagine the conditions?
You need to get some privacy in your room. How do you know neighbors don’t have binoculars ? 😀
And how Big in SQM is it ?