A single-bedroom house that feels like home

With a big percentage of the population being the youth who cannot afford to rent big houses, building wel-planned single-bedroom units would be a good way of availing them affordable accommodation. Illustrations by Julius Eryenyu Jojo

What you need to know:

As a landlord, there are other specifications you can add to a single-bedroom house to make it feel like home.

Multiple one-bedroom units built as rentals, should be comfortable and convenient for occupants to feel at home.
Much as there are various design concepts, the one adopted for this issue, is a simplistic one-bedroom house, that offers basic housing requirements, with the main target being, small families, single people, hostel facilities, furnished apartments, condominium property and many others. The specifications given below are only intended to give a general understanding of a one-bedroom house and should not be taken as final because there are many different designs for a one bedroom house/ unit and the factors are always different for each design. These units consist of the following:

Sitting room
A sitting room that can be utilised well to spare some dining space.

Kitchen
A kitchenette large enough to have a sink, stove, accessed through the sitting room, but the design allows for an alternative door through the porch.

Bedroom
A spacious bedroom able to accommodate the ordinary bedroom furniture, with an in-built wardrobe.

Lobby
Shelves in the lobby leading to the bedroom and wash room, to provide additional storage of household items.

Wet room
Washroom, with a shower, toilet seat and a washbasin.

Possible use
The gross area of this apartment is approximately 55 square metres.

Material estimates

Some of the estimates picked randomly are as follows.

Walls
Approximately 10,000 burnt bricks for one house and 18,000 bricks for two joined houses.

Roofing Sheets
Approximately 26 roofing sheets for one house and about 40 sheets for two units joined together.

Floor tiles
Depending on the size of the tiles preferred, floor tile cover approximately 50 square metres.