A Brooklyn couple chooses a specific layout to design their dream custom kitchen Project: Giving new life to an estate-condition kitchen and living room in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Before: Natalie and Cartier had already lived in New York City as renters for several years when they made the decision to make the Big Apple their […]
Racing to line up an ambitious renovation before closing on a dated co-op in Woodside, Queens, Maria, a financial reporting director at a major media company, and Eric, the owner and Creative Director at broadcast design studio General Idea, expected “pain and horror” as first-time renovators. They’d linked up with an architectural designer and came […]
We have a new contender in the tiny urban kitchen competition! A half galley in Brooklyn Heights has held the honor up to this point, but a 25-square-foot Upper East Side kitchen looks like it might edge out all competitors. With an eye on re-sale value, the owner of this Manhattan studio came to Sweeten to […]
The ink was barely dry on the closing papers of their new Brooklyn Heights co-op when Hari and Kaity decided they were ready to renovate a number of areas in the one-bedroom apartment, with the kitchen at the top of the list. The cramped galley space came with issues that could clearly be improved, and […]
We’re back in the Clinton Hill Co-ops to admire another apartment that shed its walls to reveal a spacious layout, oversize windows, and light-filled open plan. Word is definitely getting out: if you can see beyond the cramped and divided interiors of so many of the units in these 1940s-era Brooklyn towers and get in […]
This week, we took a swing through Manhattan’s West Side to check in on a big shake-up of a Midtown West apartment. Megha Desai, who runs a marketing company, came to Sweeten after nine years of living in her two-bed, two-and-a-half bath condo. Megha loved the place but was ready for a refresh – and after […]
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