How 1,100 Square Feet Looks in a Brownstone vs. a Bungalow

When cruising Zillow or trying to find an condominium to hire, sq. footage is likely one of the first stats you take a look at. In tiny New York flats, renters discover methods to eke out a couple of additional usable sq. ft with artistic storage options, whereas in spacious countryside houses, complete attics can go unused. However even in houses of similar measurement, not each sq. foot is alike. To get a greater appreciation of how totally different the identical sq. footage can seem, I took a take a look at two 1,100-square-foot houses: one a brownstone in Brooklyn, and one a beachy bungalow in Venice, California. 

In Brooklyn, this Nineteenth-century apartment includes two bedrooms, a toilet, a joint kitchen and eating room, and a grand front room. Over on the West Coast, the identical sq. footage makes up a single-story standalone dwelling together with two bedrooms, a toilet, a dwelling and eating room, and kitchen. Though the house is legally 880 sq. ft, the house owners have added an additional bed room to the entrance and tastefully transformed a single-car storage into an workplace. 

The apartment’s entrance door enters into the 31×13-foot front room which is, in a phrase, wonderful. Ornate crown molding wraps across the 12-foot ceilings, whereas white ash wooden laid in a chevron sample adorns the flooring. The peak and brightness of the room makes it look significantly cavernous, and the built-in cabinets alongside one wall — positioned throughout from a marble hearth and full with a library ladder — carve out room for storage with out cluttering the clear sight traces.

The California front room, in the meantime, is a mixture eating room. The look is heat and easy with hardwood flooring, pale grey partitions, vivid pops of paintings, and plenty of daylight streaming via the home windows. 

Via the brownstone’s sliding pocket doorways into the kitchen, the wooden floors give strategy to herringbone brick. Their clay tones offset the intense white cupboards and marble island, mixing a pure look with up to date design. Throughout from the island is a roomy eating space with house sufficient for a eating desk for a number of of your closest pals, canopied by extra hovering ceilings and anchored by one other marble hearth.

The bungalow’s kitchen is pleasant and extra petite, scrapping an island for a eating vignette with barstool seating, mild yellow cabinetry, and white home equipment rather than chrome steel. My favourite characteristic, although, is the black-and-white tile flooring that offers the entire room a comfortable, kitschy, and funky look. 

Each bedrooms within the Brooklyn dwelling really feel vivid and trendy, due to white ash flooring, crisp gray-white partitions, and tall ceilings. 

The Venice cottage takes on a hotter look with soothing inexperienced partitions in a single bed room and semi-sheer white curtains in all three, making for sunny sanctuaries that decision out for houseplants and breezy linens.

Though the doorway to the brownstone is enclosed by a fenced-in entrance backyard, the California dwelling has a non-public out of doors house to itself. Full with a retro orange chiminea and seating aplenty within the enclosed entrance yard (plus a slim deck alongside the facet of the house, excellent for repotting crops or sipping on a glass of white wine), the yard is a second dwelling house in a heat local weather — and that’s not even included within the sq. footage. 

However the West Coast bungalow house owners renovated the house to maximise the inside footage, too. Simply check out the storage, which is hardly recognizable as a stall for automobiles. Streaming with daylight and furnished with a rug, artwork, temper lighting, and seating, it embraces that valuable sq. footage and converts it right into a artistic workspace. Certainly, these two houses share the identical measurement — however show very totally different flooring plans.