Hi all. I think I posted something similar in this community a few years ago. Anyway, my wife and I are currently in a 2 bedroom apartment, and we recently had a baby. We're finding that we want more room - basically, our current apartment doesn't have any room for a table to eat at, and given that our baby will be starting solids in a couple of months, we'd like to have a table. And of course, eventually she'll need her own room - right now the second bedroom is taken up with bookshelves and a computer.
So, there's a bigger 2 bedroom unit in our building available. We're debating whether or not to move into it, or to hold off. We'd have to make do with our current apartment until we could afford something bigger outside of the building.
I'd really love some input as we're fairly torn about what to do. Moving sucks - but moving within a building is probably a hell of a lot easier than moving completely. We'd also have to paint our apartment back to primer, along with painting the new place. We'll probably get a couple of weeks overlap (hopefully without having to double-pay for both units) to do so. This isn't a 'make up my mind for me' post...I just would love to get some input as I find that people outside of the situation can sometimes see things that you can't when you're in it, y'know?
Things to consider:
-our current unit has a beautiful old clawfoot tub. new place does not.
-our current unit has a balcony. new place has a fire escape (there looks to be enough room to put some chairs on it, but they'd have to be folding chairs as to not block the ladder)
-our building is a beautiful old low rise. our rent (for both apartments) is a few hundred below market rent (it's a co-op)...if we move outside the building, we'd have a hard time finding something this nice for so cheap. also, we love this neighbourhood, but we probably couldn't afford to live in it if we weren't in this building.
-current unit is on the 2nd floor (walk-up). new place is on the 3rd.
-the new place looks to be a couple hundred square feet bigger than our current place.
-current place has a lot of closet space, while the new place has less - we're actually not even sure if it has closets at all. we have a storage unit in our basement, so we'd have to move a lot more stuff down there.
-the 'master' bedroom in the new place is smaller than what we currently have. but the living/dining area is bigger. the kitchen looks to be a bit bigger. bathroom a bit smaller.
-new place looks to have more windows.
-as I said, we'll definitely have to move eventually, but if we decide it's not worth it to move now, then we'll make do with this place for another....year or two I guess and hope that we can afford something outside of our building at that point.
We haven't seen the new place yet, but we got the rough floor plan from our administrator. I've posted both floor plans below.
( floorplans ahoy! )