The realty company will have SRO?s which are intended to give a person a place to lay their head down. I don’t see an SRO as something someone would pick as their first choice, but it is possible. With that said, all of the SROs will be designed in a way that would be the same throughout all of the buildings built. In all instance, there is no FMR standards for SROs. This is because these rooms are not normally subsidized with HUD programs. With that in mind, if someone is working a good paying job, they will likely be able to afford the price of the SRO if a studio is out of their budget. This may be necessary for those that would otherwise live in their auto or a homeless shelter.
Layout
As you enter an SRO, to your side will be a pocket door to enter into a ¾ bathroom. There is a toilet, sink, and shower. None of my units offers tubs as they take space that could be used for something else. This will be especially true with an SRO. Exiting the bathroom will be a hallway for jackets, coats, or backpacks. Next to the door will be a hook for any keys, but keep in mind that my residences (including SROs) will not need a physical key instead opting for a digital key system.
Walk down the hallway that the bathroom will connect you to the main room. At the boundary of the hallway and the main room will sit an HAI panel. The HAI panel is essentials for connecting with resources available. You would be able to see if the unit is running on backup electricity. You would also see your utility consumption in case you wish to move to a residence where you are responsible for the utilities. You could also view the public foyer with the camera to see who is calling you to get let inside. The panel will also control the temperature in the SRO with a heat pump for AC, and underfloor radiant heating for feat.
As you enter the room and on your right adjacent to the shower’s wall, you would find a dormitory 1.7ft3 refrigerator. This will allow you to store small foods, or prescriptions that need to be refrigerated (such as insulin), however I do not see you doing much microwaving here. You might have a few days of burrito meals, or bottles of soda. I will also try to have a convenience store close by for tenants to get something to eat, and maybe microwave if they have a microwave oven. You don’t want to stack things too high, and you as the tenant is responsible for providing the microwave. Next to the refigerator is a sleeper sofa. During the waking hours, the furniture is a couch/sofa. Next to the sleeper sofa will sit a sturdy end table. One might be able to install a small printer or Multi-Function Center. Going in the different direction of the room is the outdoor wall with a window taking a portion of the wall to allow light. As with all windows in FSP Realty’s inventory, these windows are argon filled triple pain one way glass windows. you can look out to see the world, however someone on the outside will only see their reflection. This is for privacy.
Across from the end table, and the other side of window will be where a corner desk and small office chair will sit. This will be an ideal place to host your notebook PC. This could be where your PC will sit when you are needing to sit at a desk, or if you wish to charge your PC up. If you do not have a PC, that is fine. At the window sill, there will be an electrical outlet, and an ethernet jack. The ethernet jack will run to the location under the TV that is mentioned below. This will allow you to plug your OTA? DVR? for watching and recording over the air antenna television. Since there will be basic cable, this is not a necessity.
Next to the corner desk will be a 40″ Roku TV. Since you are in a SRO with extremely limited space, there is no communications closet to set the TV provider. With that said, there will be a coaxial jack on the TV wall which will run to a coaxial jack at the window sill. You would plug the antenna into the jack with the window sill, and the TV into the TV Wall. This will allow you to have OTA television without worrying about cable length.
Since the SRO is intended to make your life as comfortable as possible, there will be no other way I could make things better as there is simply no room. You may have 1 pet, and no more than one person is allowed to live in each SRO. The only exception I can see is a married couple, but even for the most loving of couples, an SRO can definitely be a strain on the relationship when there is absolutely no alone time.