03-02-2022, 09:26 PM
(03-02-2022, 03:47 PM)jamincan Wrote: I hate the trend for ensuite bathrooms in small apartments. There are so many more valuable ways to use the space. Even worse is when it's an ensuite with no shower. Useless.
Last fall I was looking casually at condos and it seems pretty much everything built after the early 80s has terrible floor plans. Some stuff like ensuites and walk-in closets are crammed in apartments far too small for them. But more generally, the layouts are just utterly incoherent with no thought to how space is used. Like cramming a 7x7 window-less "den" next to the entrance-way, just because there's some extra space there. Or having an entrance directly into a dining room. Or the dining space being directly in the middle of the apartment where everyone wants to walk. Or a bathroom opening onto a dining area. *bleargh*
My current 3br 1500sqft townhouse is not bad (and it's enough sqft that it doesn't really need an optimal layout). I think it's from the 90s, if I remember correctly. The previous 2br 1080sqft townhouse had a terrible layout with the entrance directly into the living room and way too much corridor, from early 2000s.