DALLAS: The boomer market wants apartments with a point of difference.
“They don’t want to just walk down a generic corridor that leads to their front door,” said the architectural editor of Seniors Housing.
A proposed apartment design steers away from the conventional galley-style kitchen. The one-bedroom, two-bedroom, and two-bedroom-plus-study apartments feature kitchens with freestanding joinery, not unlike a series of individual but connected two-pack painted boxes. These boxes appear as crisp white modules that have been carefully crafted and assembled rather than mass-produced. One of the boxes contains a pantry, while another conceals a refrigerator.
“People are looking for a sense of presence to the street, but they also want to be surprised when they walk into a space, whether it’s a house or an apartment”…
