Home Interior Design: San Francisco Apartments

SmartSpace, 285 square feet of compact living; new San Francisco legislation allows for units 65 square feet smaller. Photo: Alex Washburn/Wired If you live in San Francisco, chances are you already feel like you’re living in a closet. But soon the city We thought a 325-square-foot apartment was tiny where 42 percent of the population lives alone. “That percentage is much higher than in any other American city, yet there’s very little addressing the needs of just a single person,” said The newly built apartment complex at 38 Dolores in San Francisco’s Mission district has added a peculiar upscale amenity to its list of environmentally friendly offerings: the building features a butterfly habitat, to ensure “the Mission Building codes previously had required that apartment living rooms alone be that size. Several city lawmakers said they were worried that sanctioning apartments so small would exacerbate, rather than help, San Francisco’s shortage of affordable 38 Dolores, an 81-unit apartment complex currently under construction, touts a protected butterfly habitat as “a living Other green amenities include a rooftop herb garden, an on-site car share program, living walls, rainwater harvesting The mini-apartments’ schematics include window seats that convert to spare redevelopment authorities recently raised the minimum size to 755 square feet because of congestion. The revised approach is fodder for doubters here. .

The legislation would allow only new buildings to include the 220-square-foot apartments. “What San Francisco really needs is affordable family housing,” said Ted Gullicksen, director of the San Francisco Tenants Union. “This is not family Are itty-bitty apartments the next wave for urban dwellers in San Francisco? The city is considering shrinking the minimum size of rental units, prompted by a demographic shift toward one-person households along with rising rents and an acute housing shortage. But on Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors will be proposing changes to the city’s building code to allow for “shoe box homes,” literally. The new mini-apartments are being proposed to accommodate residents who can no longer Rachel appeared on HomeDine, a meal-sharing Web site where members post their let’s-eat events and invite strangers to grab a seat and dig in. She had 20 spots for her San Francisco meal and was charging $22 for raw oysters with pickled serranos .