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bobbyfijan.bsky.social
Building Housing for Families
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Any apartment building can fit a 3BR/2BA into the corners of the building at close to ~1000SF

The key to a good rowhouse is the ground floor Here's the current iteration of the design I'm working on now. Total unit will be ~1600sf 4BR/2.5BA

The most insane apartment amenity I've ever seen: An *indoor* giant chess set room!

1.2MM per unit of affordable housing in DC The units 🔽🔽 ... www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I want to build the modern rowhouse. Across the country. Designed for young families.

Building 1BR+Den apartments is a *simple* shift that makes City marginally better for "families" Instead of an oversized walk-in closet ... you get a space for a remote worker to have an occasional office OR a young couple to put an infant The Baby Maybe

A "family apartment"looks like: 1320sf, 3BR+Den/2BA

The simplest principle to making an apartment be more "family friendly" ... add more bedrooms Both of these units are 1200sf

Density

The most beautiful sight: A school bus stopped in front of an apartment building

The key to Housing for Families: Smaller secondary bedrooms A family does not need their child’s bedroom to be the same size as the parents’

It’s reasonable to believe two things at the same time: 1) This building is ugly 2) This building type is sorely needed and we should reduce all obstacles to its construction [ALSO … #1 could have been vastly improved (by the Developer) without compromising #2]

Spent the morning walking around Wheeler, OKC and swapping ideas (and floorplans) for rowhomes and infill projects with @austintunnell.bsky.social

Here's a bedroom closet design we should put in a lot more US apartments

Some gorgeous rowhomes in Wheeler District in Oklahoma City.

1000sf 2BR/2BA Since the 2nd is smaller, it creates space for the Kitchen and a larger living/dining room.

The sink layout in this unit is extremely puzzling ...

Here's a very interesting bi-level apartment floorplan … from @culdesac.bsky.social‬ in Tempe 600sf 1BR/1BA, $1395/month

I'm a fan of "Dens" as much as anyone ... but a ratio of 3 "Dens" to 1 true Bedroom is a LOT Not much else to do with a unit that is >50' deep

15 years. Best anniversary dinner. Best wife.