? 4 Apartment Dwellers (apartments, square footage, house, bedroom)

[NEOhioBound]

For those that live in apartments, what is your sq. footage space? And do you think it is roomy enough?

The reason I am asking, we will be moving to an apartment that is 1,175 sq feet and trying to get an idea if that is too small or an ok amount. It is 2 bedroom with the master being 12' x 15' and the spare being 12'x12'6", living room is 22'x17'

Thanks

If you have any photos of your place, would you mind posting them?

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by NEOhioBound

For those that live in apartments, what is your sq. footage space? And do you think it is roomy enough?

The reason I am asking, we will be moving to an apartment that is 1,175 sq feet and trying to get an idea if that is too small or an ok amount. It is 2 bedroom with the master being 12' x 15' and the spare being 12'x12'6", living room is 22'x17'

Thanks

If you have any photos of your place, would you mind posting them?

So, you never rented.......or lived in a home before? What was the sq footage of the last place that you lived in? Figure that out and use that as a guide.

By the way,

a 22' x 17' living room may be considered fairly large for an apartment. The MB is good sized for sleeping quarters, as long as you do not have a California King.

[NEOhioBound]

yeah- I own a home now that is over 3500sq foot. That doesn't necessarily mean that I can picture 1175sq feet in my head

And present home we rent, we do not even know the sq footage for it

[K-Luv]

Originally Posted by NEOhioBound

yeah- I own a home now that is over 3500sq foot. That doesn't necessarily mean that I can picture 1175sq feet in my head

It would be about the size of 1/3 your place now.

[Radek]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

It would be about the size of 1/3 your place now.

Yeah, but does that mean 2/3rds from every room? Well, some rooms become unlivable. Does it mean that you lose a lot of random square footage? Cutting off 2/3rds, doesn't really give anything useful.

22' x 17' is a fairly large living room. I don't remember my square footage, but I had a queen sized mattress and a 4' deep computer desk, with enough space to walk behind my chair... and plenty of room at the foot of my bed.

Currently I'm in a 10'7" x 15'9" Dorm room. I can tell you that as an all in one room, its a little small. But, it'd be a large bedroom by itself.

Edit: Square footage can be a bad measure for a number of reasons. For instance, my dorm room is that size, but the closets are out from the walls, not in... so, that space includes the space they take up. Also, for an apartment, you may have a long hallway, or a corner landing, or various other semi or unusable areas that are added to the sq. ft total, but don't give you adequare space.

Check bedrooms, I've found anything less than say 10x10 in a bedroom feels really small (though, recessed closet space definitely can help)

[Simple Living]

I live in a 375 sq ft studio apartment and I have room to spare. People constantly tell me how roomy and very comfortable it is.

It depends on how much "stuff" you have that you're addicted to.

I would get lost in 1,175 sq ft. Two bedroom apartments around here aren't nearly that big. It's a large apartment.

[NEOhioBound]

Thanks everyone

Yeah, I was kind of wondering about the bedroom since we have a king sized bed.. we don't have a dresser yet since at our present place there really is only room for the bed about 1 foot of walking space on 3 sides of it so we have just been using closets

Here is the floor plan of my place



Wow simple living.. Is it a place where you can shower and cook your dinner at the same time? lol

And thanks Radek- I didn't take this into consideration "For instance, my dorm room is that size, but the closets are out from the walls, not in... so, that space includes the space they take up"

[pitt_transplant]

Depends on your furnishings/and layout

I always think of it in couch lengths. Couches are about 6-7 feet long

The bedrooms sounds like a good size for a double/queen and a dresser with walking room.

The living room sounds perfect to have a lot of room to walk and have a couch/chair/tv set up.

You just may have to get creative in how you set it up and think of flow. But some houses can be laid out poorly and a well laid out apartment can "feel" roomier.

Make a list of your furn. and measure it.
Pick up some graph paper and a ruler.
Cut out little cubes the size of your furni scale
draw your new place to scale on the paper
Then you can move your little paper cubes around to see how you can play with the layout and save yourself a lot of back breaking work


I always do this when I am waiting to move before I set up my place.

[pitt_transplant]

king will totally fit in there

[NEOhioBound]

Originally Posted by pitt_transplant

Depends on your furnishings/and layout

I always think of it in couch lengths. Couches are about 6-7 feet long

The bedrooms sounds like a good size for a double/queen and a dresser with walking room.

The living room sounds perfect to have a lot of room to walk and have a couch/chair/tv set up.

You just may have to get creative in how you set it up and think of flow. But some houses can be laid out poorly and a well laid out apartment can "feel" roomier.

Make a list of your furn. and measure it.
Pick up some graph paper and a ruler.
Cut out little cubes the size of your furni scale
draw your new place to scale on the paper
Then you can move your little paper cubes around to see how you can play with the layout and save yourself a lot of back breaking work


I always do this when I am waiting to move before I set up my place.

oohh great idea. Except for doing it on graph paper I will try it in photoshop. Now I just have to figure out conversions.. I was never really good at math. Thankfully since we move a lot we don't ever keep a lot of furniture on hand