https://twitter.com/donnelly_b/status/1399368976229097473?s=20
I came across the above floor plan over the weekend. I reshared it on Twitter and there was then a pretty good discussion about what people like and don't like. I mean, who doesn't like looking at floor plans?
The suite is 790 square feet with 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It rents, at least according to Bobby's original tweet, at $2,600 per month. That's $3.29 per square foot. I'm guessing that the apartment is in Philadelphia solely based on Bobby's location.
The divisive thing in this floor plan is the two inset bedrooms. Some people don't like these. But designing a good floor plan is like working through a puzzle. You have all these constraints (some of which are just personal preference) and you have to find ways to work around them.
When you're working with a deep urban floor plate, you pretty much have no choice but to design floor plans with inset bedrooms. Otherwise, the suites get too big and they stop making economic sense. I have talked about this a few times before on the blog.
So what you do is "bury" the bedroom(s) and keep the main living space as open as possible. In this case, the living/dining dimensions are about 17' wide x 10' deep. So a pretty good size, and certainly a very good width.
