I live in a new modern apartment with a big open kitchen/dining/livingroom area that's very esthetic, but sometimes I miss my previous galley kitchen where I could stand in one spot and reach almost every pan, knife, etc. as I'm cooking.
This is why modern apartments have big bathrooms with copious flat space around the sink and good looking living spaces but when you actually live in them you'll find out there's not enough room to scoot around your wife's thicc ass while she's digging for something in the fridge or any attempt to host a party becomes an instant game of human bumper cars due to the traffic paths to the drinks, bathroom, main room. Many times you'll even find that these apartments can only be furnished with minimalist aesthetics while there is technically room for standard furniture and appliance sets they make the spaces unusable. Women don't get exited about the kind of "there's space on this wall for a 80" TV and if we put the beer on the left side of the fridge you can reach it without getting off the couch" and "look at all these kitchen cabinets, I'll never pull out a pan to find that it's dirty from oil/dust" raw practicality type stuff that men do and will happily trade it away to make a more aesthetic space. Men will also much more readily live in older construction and place less value upon "new" or "new-ish" so there's a healthy amount of "what new buyers want vs what used buyers want" discrepancy going on too.
Source: Too much time listening to the guy who sells the cabinets for these new apartments.
I wanted to get all the units finished before I start the redesign process. I have gotten good feedback from the users over the past 2 years. I'm about to post the last unit for rent. Once that is done I will start work on the refinements.
Most new apartments are strictly divided into tiers—singles and students in their early twenties with very little money; couples without children (yet), but lots of disposable income; families with one or two children, and a double income; and elderly couples. If you don’t fall into these demographics, you’re bound for a rough time.
These units are available for at will tenancy(no lease). My plan is to raise the rent on turn over rather than nickel and dime the existing tenants.
> That sounds… wildly specific to the US.
There’s a lot of active adult 55+ and no kid neighborhoods. I wonder how they compare to what OP describes, I’ve never been in one.
> Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky continued to design kitchens. Her mid-20th century designs incorporated electrical appliances while continuing to rely on methods for efficiency advanced by Frederick Winslow Taylor and Christine Frederick.[8]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen#Influence_on...
And perhaps:
Did you mean ascetic? I’m trying to figure out what you meant but I’m not sure, because ascetic kind of contradicts the other descriptors.
Edit: just saw the other comment. I suppose they meant “aesthetically pleasing”.