ventilation
This San Francisco studio rents for $2,400/month. What critical feature is missing from the kitchen?
San Francisco Victorian and Edwardian housing stock, built between 1880 and 1915, frequently features interior kitchens positioned against shared walls rather than exterior walls. At the time of construction, cooking relied heavily on wood and coal stoves with their own flue systems. When those stoves were replaced with modern gas ranges, the original ventilation infrastructure was often removed, leaving landlocked kitchens with no replacement ventilation system. Cooking anything beyond simple meals fills the entire studio.