W e’re big fans of all things tiny living here at The Bold Italic. In arguably the country’s most walkable city, the notion of having your living room be the city, itself, really does have a solid ring to it. This makes it more digestible to stomach downsizing one’s life in compact ways. (I, for example, live in a 160-square-foot apartment in the TenderNob that I’ve come to describe as my “tiny house in a building.”)
It’s also financially responsible — solvent, even—to reduce your residential footprint. Well, for the most part. Because if someone really wanted to drop nearly a million dollars on an apartment measuring less than 400 square feet in SF at the moment, they could.
S andwiched between the Embarcadero and Jackson Square, the 397 studio apartment at 288 Pacific Avenue recently listed on Redfin for $995,000 is simply stunning.
The self-described “perfect urban pied-a-terre” inside the 33-unit residential development has an outdoor terrace, stone countertops (which are honed Taj Mahal slab), a master bathroom that has Carrara marble (emphasized by the newly-installed bronze accents throughout), and upgraded lighting that would accentuate any thirst trap taken in front of the tall mirror.
The main living area/sleeping corridor/kitchen space/dining area is pulled straight from our small living fantasies. It’s a pleasing amalgamation of stark black metals contrasted by wooden cabinetry, white walls, and a lightly stained hardwood floor.
Helping create separation inside — a bit of interior design work necessary for such small living areas — a floor-to-ceiling black steel room divider, which is centered in the apartment, spans about half the width of the domicile. The outdoor terrace, however, is shared; an erected off-brown steel fence separates this unit from two others it shares the outdoor space.
At $2,538 a square foot, this gorgeous, albeit small unit boasts the highest price-per-square-foot of any home currently available in San Francisco, which includes a few $10,000,000 listings.
While we’re in no such financially plump state to afford such a stunning property, those who are making around $200,000 a year and want to put an ultra-lux spin on tiny living in SF can conceivably swing the nearly million-dollar mortgage. And the $1,200 monthly HOA fee.
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John Stark | Rocklin, CA Real Estate Broker
SF transplant, coffee shop frequent; tiny living enthusiast. iPhone hasn’t been off silent mode in nine or so years. Editor of The Bold Italic.