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Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
A basement apartment is an apartment located below street level, underneath another structure—usually an apartment building, but possibly a house or a business. Cities in North America are beginning to recognize these units as a vital source of housing in urban areas and legally define them as an accessory dwelling unit or "ADU".
The following is based on the International Building Code, the most commonly used building code in the United States: Assembly (Group A) - places used for people gathering for entertainment, worship, and eating or drinking. Examples: churches, restaurants (with 50 or more possible occupants), theaters, and stadiums.
The Sims 2: Apartment Life is a broad-scope expansion pack. In its official guide, the lawyer and game strategy guide writer Greg Kramer introduced the expansion as focused on communities, positing that the title was chosen because apartments are "a microcosm of what it means to be part of a community" rather than because of any particular focus on apartments themselves. [11]
According to a 2004 report, among homeowners with household incomes in the top 10%, those earning more than $120,000 a year, home values were considerably higher while houses were larger and newer. The median value for homes in this demographic was $256,000 while median square footage was 2,500 and the median year of construction was 1977.
Kimi Shirokado is an eccentric little girl who lives at a low-cost housing complex called Housing Complex C in the fictional seaside town of Kurosaki. During the summer, she befriends city girl Yuri Koshide when her family moves in from Tokyo along with Middle Eastern fishing interns.
Stylistically, Old Law Tenements are unique and conspicuous. Though each uniformly occupies a twenty-five-foot lot just like the pre-Old Law tenement, the Old Law facade – with its fanciful sandstone human and animal gargoyles (sometimes in full figure), its terracotta filigree of no apparent historical precedent, [citation needed] its occasional design aberrations (e.g., dwarf columns), and ...
The living conditions of people in Singapore worsened, with many people living in informal settlements or cramped shophouses. [3] Moreover, the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), which was then responsible for public housing in Singapore, faced many problems in providing public housing, with the rents for flats being too low to be financially ...