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The Insider: Greenpoint Townhouse Flexes to Evolve With Growing Family
Bold pops of color, a Murphy bed for guests, and spaces that can be reconfigured to meet future needs distinguish this wood-frame house.
The Insider: History and Modernity Live Side by Side in South Slope Reno
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The Insider: Cohesive Finishes Unify Bed Stuy Townhouse Reno
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This is really nice. My one quibble is that the Stove being inset in that alcove would make for an awkward and cramped cooking experience. You have to take the pan or pot out and around a wall to pour the contents into a bowl. Also the ability to move pans, do a "wok flip", or any of the other kinetic activities of cooking happens in a constrained space. But if the in-la apartment is really a nice hotel room for visiting grandparents who are going to be eating out or ordering in most meals, it won't matter.
The Insider: Boerum Hill Garden Floor Feels Like an English Country HouseLovely home. I am curious about people's thinking when the designate a third floor apartment as a future space for grandparents. Wouldn't it be better to put that use on a ground floor?
The Insider: Greenpoint Townhouse Flexes to Evolve With Growing FamilyIf this is the house i think it my wife and I lived there from 1970–1972. It was then a very much un-renovated three family. We had the garden apartment. It was our first apartment which my mother described, ungenerously, as “ that filthy basement slum”.
The Insider: History and Modernity Live Side by Side in South Slope RenoNice article. Is this the whole apartment? Of so where is the bedroom?
The Insider: Bed Stuy Garden Floor Reno Makes Aging in Place Stylish and Social