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It's a shame most new build apartments ins SF are so horribly designed. 900-sqft is enough for a comfortable 3 bedroom apartment. In an SF new build it probably

It's a shame most new build apartments ins SF are so horribly designed. 900-sqft is enough for a comfortable 3 bedroom apartment. In an SF new build it probably means a deep, dark open plan space with windows on only one small wall.

kelnos 10y ago
I'm not sure I'd say comfortable. Three 10'x10' bedrooms would leave you with 600 sqft remaining to play with, and that's not a lot of room for two bathrooms and a decent-sized living space and kitchen, not to mention closets and any kind of storage space (which the need for increases with the number of people who live there). My 1BR is around 900 sq ft, and I'm having trouble envisioning how you'd carve two more bedrooms out of it and still have a nice space. One more bedroom, sure, but two more feels like it would be a stretch.
- lambdadmitry 10y ago
  It's an interesting exchange to read for Russian because here it is somewhat common to have two generations (e.g. my grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, two nephews and a small dog) living in a 2BR 500 sq ft flat. Gives me kinda different perspective on the poverty of everyday Soviet living, eh. It's slowly changing for the better, though.
- adevine 10y ago
  Again, it's a matter of perspective. I've seen quite a few well designed 1 bath/1 bed places for 600 sq ft or less. Not hard for me to envision turning the bedroom into another bathroom, with some space left over, and you've then hit pretty much all of your criteria.
shostack 10y ago
Many would not consider 900sqft comfortable for a 1bd/1ba let alone 3/1 or 3/2.
- manarth 10y ago
  It's interesting to see such a different perspective: my 2-bed apartment is 645sqft. It seems the average house in the USA is over twice the size of the average house in the UK [1], and is significantly larger than many countries. [1] http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house
  - Naritai 10y ago
    Your reference says that Americans think they need ~900 sqft per person, which I agree is around what the people I know think is enough. So I guess I'm pretty average in my thinking.
- pjc50 10y ago
  That's 83 square meters! Here in the UK my four-bedroom house is extravagantly large for just the two of us at 90m^2.
- user5994461 10y ago
  That speaks at length about the prevalence of extra large flats and bedrooms in the USA.

kelnos 10y ago

I'm not sure I'd say comfortable. Three 10'x10' bedrooms would leave you with 600 sqft remaining to play with, and that's not a lot of room for two bathrooms and a decent-sized living space and kitchen, not to mention closets and any kind of storage space (which the need for increases with the number of people who live there). My 1BR is around 900 sq ft, and I'm having trouble envisioning how you'd carve two more bedrooms out of it and still have a nice space. One more bedroom, sure, but two more feels like it would be a stretch.

lambdadmitry 10y ago
It's an interesting exchange to read for Russian because here it is somewhat common to have two generations (e.g. my grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, two nephews and a small dog) living in a 2BR 500 sq ft flat. Gives me kinda different perspective on the poverty of everyday Soviet living, eh. It's slowly changing for the better, though.
adevine 10y ago
Again, it's a matter of perspective. I've seen quite a few well designed 1 bath/1 bed places for 600 sq ft or less. Not hard for me to envision turning the bedroom into another bathroom, with some space left over, and you've then hit pretty much all of your criteria.

shostack 10y ago

Many would not consider 900sqft comfortable for a 1bd/1ba let alone 3/1 or 3/2.

manarth 10y ago
It's interesting to see such a different perspective: my 2-bed apartment is 645sqft. It seems the average house in the USA is over twice the size of the average house in the UK [1], and is significantly larger than many countries. [1] http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house
- Naritai 10y ago
  Your reference says that Americans think they need ~900 sqft per person, which I agree is around what the people I know think is enough. So I guess I'm pretty average in my thinking.
pjc50 10y ago
That's 83 square meters! Here in the UK my four-bedroom house is extravagantly large for just the two of us at 90m^2.
user5994461 10y ago
That speaks at length about the prevalence of extra large flats and bedrooms in the USA.