A friend of mine is looking for apartments in the Bay Area and ran into listings for a “Romeo-style” apartment. Google seems to suggest this a SF-only style of flat, anyone know exactly what it means?
That’s a new one on me. Never heard of “Romeo” apartments before. After a bit of googling and looking at photos, about all I could come up with as a common element is that they have a former fireplace that’s been closed off and turned into a small display nook.
My first impression of the name was that these were new apartments that had vestigial balconies - there’s a new Neoclassical / Italianate-styled building that went up near my home that has absurdly small balconies with elaborate wrought iron railings about big enough to hold a cat and maybe a small plant.
Not sure if I’m being wooshed (probably), but . . . yeah, that’s the point: They are those little fake-a-rooney balconies that are basically useless, like you would find in a stage production of Shakespeare’s R&J. Here’s a couple examples: Julietbalcony.