Apartments can be classified into several types. One is 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 where one bedroom is a separate room from the rest
of the apartment. Then there are two-bedroom, three-bedroom, etc. apartments. Small
apartments often have only one entrance/exit.
Large apartments
often have two entrances/exits, perhaps a door in the front and another in the
back. Depending on the building design, the entrance/exit 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
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