Apartment Floor Plan
If you're here from Apartment Therapy, check out the virtual walkthrough photos as well!
I'm preparing to participate, in whatever meager and non-expense incurring way I can, in Apartment Therapy's "Group Cure." Whilst I await the book's arrival, I thought I'd draw our current floor plan and measure the square footage in our apartment. This apartment is home and office to two full-time students.
Conclusions from looking at this plan:
- we have 485 sq. ft. of space
- we have a lot of seating. i guess my theory was always to err on the side of more seating, in case, you know, we ever have parties. but we rarely have groups so big over that they'd have to sit on all our seating, and plus the extra seating is so far away from the main futon / chair arrangement. and if you have a big party, people stand anyway. hmmm. maybe we could do with less butt real estate, eh?
- we have a lot of shelving, and it's still not enough. with our tall ceilings, i'd like to see us have more "big" shelves instead of the squat ones we mostly have. we could also use to get rid of some books. chris will be renting office space starting next month, so that should help some.
- i love our nice, big bathtub!
- we have lots of lovely windows. it sometimes limits how we can arrange the furniture (particularly in the bedroom) but i'll take that inconvenience any day.
- we are guilty of "shove everything to the walls" syndrome, esp in the front room. but sometimes i feel like we have so little space in each room that there's no room to put anything there that's *not* against the wall!
- i know this is sacriledge, but i wish we had less kitchen space in favor of more living or bathroom space.
- i wish there was no wall between the kitchen and the living space. i hate feeling cut off from guests when i'm cooking, and our kitchen, while spacious, has awful fluorescent lighting and is otherwise not a great setup for hanging out. too bad we're renters!
Apartment Floor Plan
If you're here from Apartment Therapy, check out the virtual walkthrough photos as well!
I'm preparing to participate, in whatever meager and non-expense incurring way I can, in Apartment Therapy's "Group Cure." Whilst I await the book's arrival, I thought I'd draw our current floor plan and measure the square footage in our apartment. This apartment is home and office to two full-time students.
Conclusions from looking at this plan:
- we have 485 sq. ft. of space
- we have a lot of seating. i guess my theory was always to err on the side of more seating, in case, you know, we ever have parties. but we rarely have groups so big over that they'd have to sit on all our seating, and plus the extra seating is so far away from the main futon / chair arrangement. and if you have a big party, people stand anyway. hmmm. maybe we could do with less butt real estate, eh?
- we have a lot of shelving, and it's still not enough. with our tall ceilings, i'd like to see us have more "big" shelves instead of the squat ones we mostly have. we could also use to get rid of some books. chris will be renting office space starting next month, so that should help some.
- i love our nice, big bathtub!
- we have lots of lovely windows. it sometimes limits how we can arrange the furniture (particularly in the bedroom) but i'll take that inconvenience any day.
- we are guilty of "shove everything to the walls" syndrome, esp in the front room. but sometimes i feel like we have so little space in each room that there's no room to put anything there that's *not* against the wall!
- i know this is sacriledge, but i wish we had less kitchen space in favor of more living or bathroom space.
- i wish there was no wall between the kitchen and the living space. i hate feeling cut off from guests when i'm cooking, and our kitchen, while spacious, has awful fluorescent lighting and is otherwise not a great setup for hanging out. too bad we're renters!