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Apartments can be
classified into several types. In the US the typical terms are
a Studio, efficiency, bedsit, or bachelor style apartment.
These all tend to be the smallest apartments with the cheapest
rents in a given area. These kinds of apartment usually
consist mainly of a large room which is the living, dining,
and bedroom combined. There are usually kitchen facilities as
part of this central room, but the bathroom is its own smaller
separate room.
Moving up from the efficiencies are one-bedroom apartments, in
which one bedroom is separate from the rest of the apartment.
Then there are two-bedroom, three-bedroom, etc. apartments.
Small apartments often have only one entrance.
Large apartments often have two entrances, perhaps a door in
the front and another in the back. Depending on the building
design, the entrance doors may be directly to the outside or
to a common area inside, such as a hallway. Depending on
location, apartments may be available for rent furnished with
furniture or unfurnished into which a tenant usually moves in
with their own furniture. A garden apartment has some
characteristics of a townhouse: each apartment has its own
entrance, and apartments are not placed vertically over one
another. However, a garden apartment is usually only one story
high and never more than two stories; they are often
one-bedrooms and almost never more than two-bedrooms. Some
garden apartment buildings place a one-car garage under each
apartment, with pedestrian entrances from a common courtyard
open at one end. The grounds are more landscaped than for
other modestly scaled apartments. (Alternately, "garden
apartment" can refer to a unit built half below grade, putting
its windows at garden level. |
