Hey Bennadatto,
Most folks have given some good ideas about setting up a press in a limited area via various means. In your initial post, however, you mentioned that you already know about using Workmates and seem to reject that idea for lack of room. You do seem to be interested in a true hand tool to load ammo, and I will address that point with a few opinions and ideas.
First, you already seem to have rejected the classic Lee Loader that you smack with a hammer, and I would also agree that the hammer smacking Lee Classic is not worth the effort. I have not used the Lee Hand Press, but it does seem to reload with regular dies and shell holders.
I am quite familiar with two Lyman hand tools. The first I will mention is the Lyman Acculine press which can be attached to a bench or used strictly as a hand tool like the Lee Hand Press. The Acculine tool is no longer made my Lyman, but there is at least one available on E-Bay at this time. The Acculine uses standard dies and shell holders. The linkage can be reversed to make it so you can use as a standard bench mounted press or a hand tool. It also should include a priming die to reprime cases, but I would recommend using a Lee Auto Prime hand tool for primer reloading. I use the Lee Auto Prime for all single stage loading. With the Acculine, you will be able to full length resize rifle cases, but they will have to be lubed, and it will take some muscle effort, but I think the Lee tool will require more effort. If you are only doing straight walled pistol cases, it really doesn't take that much effort with the Acculine. Yes, with the Acculine you will be able to load the 9mm, 8mm Mauser, .30-06, and 7.5x55 cartridges.
There is also the old fashioned Lyman/Ideal 310 Nutcracket hand tool that is still made by Lyman. I also have and use the Lyman Nutcracker, and it has good and not so good things to consider. The Nutcracker uses non-standard dies which only neck size the case. This is good and bad. It is bad because of the non standard dies that are rather expensive, but it is pretty easy to size the case necks which also have to be lubed. If you want to load the four calibers you mentioned, I would not want to buy that many die sets for the Nutcracker.
All three of these tools and everything related to reloading can be carried in a small gym bag, and you can reload cases anywhere. While I have both Lyman tools, I would probably recommend that a new person start by getting a used Acculine hand tool on E-Bay or wherever. With the Acculine, any dies and shell holders you buy for it will be able to be used with a bench press when you move to that route. I suspect that is also true for the Lee hand tool. With the Acculine, however, when you do get some more room, it can actually be mounted to a small bench and used as a bench tool.
You are correct that a hand tool is more work than a bench mounted single stage press, but the three hand tools I mentioned above can really do what you want to do, and it is not a bad way to start reloading.
Best wishes,
Dave Wile