A video of our tour through Trump‘s residential condos is available on our YouTube channel and will go up on YoChicago this weekend. In the meantime, you can get an idea of how these one- and two-bedrooms look with people in them.
So what were our immediate impressions about the units? The 1,046 square-foot one-bedroom (PDF) felt a little cramped. I thought its master bath took up a little too much space compared with the adjacent 12′ x 16-8″ bedroom, but it has two vanities, so I’m guessing it was designed with couples in mind. Likewise, the shape of the 17′ x 16-7″ living room – think of a square with one corner lopped off – left me wondering how best to position a couches, a coffee table and a TV without butting up against the kitchen bar or blocking a walkway. (That’s the living room at far bottom left.) I didn’t think to ask when the sales staff would get around to furnishing one or all of these units, but I certainly want to revisit one once some furniture is in place to see how they feel.
By comparison, the two-bedrooms had 2,063 to 2,076 square feet, and the distribution of that extra space throughout the bedrooms and the living areas made the units much more comfortable. The 26-7″ x 20-5″ living / dining area of floor plan “J” (PDF) was especially nice, but what struck us most were the large walk-in closets adjoining the master bedrooms. As you can see at the far bottom right, the closet in floor plan “K” (PDF) actually turns a corner to form a kind of lazy-L shape. I can’t tell if it actually has more storage area than the more traditional square-shaped closet in floor plan “J”, but it certainly felt larger.
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