{"id":37226,"date":"2009-10-22T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T09:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=37226"},"modified":"2009-10-26T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:51:18","slug":"combining-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/combining-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We own 2 cooperative apartments &#8211; a 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom side by side w\/ a total square footage of 1,750.  As we mull over the various alternatives of whether to sell both and purchase a stand-alone house (my biggest wish) &#8211; I wonder what renovation costs could be to break through and combine.  Additionally curious to know if combining the units would increase the overall resale value.<\/p>\n<p>I have looked over the various architects (Richard Perry!) and designers previously suggested on the Forum for this kind of work and know that we simply don&#8217;t want to break through but to overhaul the layout to reflect a single 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment.   <\/p>\n<p>Apartments are not a wreck, we did nice renovations on each w\/new kitchens and floors.  <\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/combining-apart\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We own 2 cooperative apartments &#8211; a 1 bedroom and 2 bedroom side by side w\/ a total square footage of 1,750. As we mull over the various alternatives of whether to sell both and purchase a stand-alone house (my biggest wish) &#8211; I wonder what renovation costs could be to break through and combine&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-37226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-renovation"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/combining-apart\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Combining Apartments","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/combining-apart\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/10\/combining-apart\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Renovation","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"iametis"}],"creator":["iametis"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-10-22T09:49:24Z","datePublished":"2009-10-22T09:49:24Z","dateModified":"2009-10-26T09:51:18Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Combining Apartments\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/combining-apart\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2009\\\/10\\\/combining-apart\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Renovation\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"iametis\"}],\"creator\":[\"iametis\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2009-10-22T09:49:24Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-10-22T09:49:24Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-10-26T09:51:18Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37226"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=37226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}