One of my on-the-side interests is the “typical” floorplans of different kinds of houses. I have been looking at the pictures of the interior of a limestone 2-story Brooklyn rowhouse, and am wondering how exactly the rooms are arranged? Is the house one room wide, or two, are the kitchen and dining room both behind the living room, what? And what’s upstairs? How many beds and baths?
Thanks for any response. I can’t get information out of people who live in these houses because they assume that of course I know the floorplan–who doesn’t?
Here is a typical floorplan that I ripped off from the NY Times Real Estate section. (You can find a lot more there.) Many buildings of this type have been converted to separate apartments. This is an intact house which can be yours for a mere $3.5 million.
Thank you, friedo.
Are there no more ideas? I have looked at Brooklyn real estate websites, and while I do see that many townhouses are a variation on a theme, I would still like to know precisely what this theme is supposed to be. Like, if someone says “my house is a bog-standard Brooklyn townhouse,” shouldn’t this tell me what I want to know about every nook and cranny? Well, it doesn’t…
I heard it called railroad track (or track) ‘style’ but have no idea why.
From my experence with one in particular, from front to back you have:
Master bedroom, bedroom ,dinning room, living room all in a line with doors between all connecting rooms.
Off the master bedroom you have a bathroom (or a huge closet), off that bathroom you have a exit to the hallway which may be public space if a multi tennent situation.
Off the bedroom you have access to a hallway that leads to the kitchen (with the main entrance and bathroom along the way)
The dinning room does not have any hallway access.
The living room has access to the kitchen
