What is the antithesis of a “chef’s” kitchen?
One kitchen, in a townhouse floor-through in a Central Park block of the high 80s, fills a nook off a hallway.
The second kitchen fills, overwhelmingly, the living room of a three-bedroom duplex in Lincoln Square.
Both of them are stunning — in the first case because it is so inadequate and, in the second case, because it is so out of scale. Continue reading
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Roger Lewis
Architect and Washington Post columnist Roger K. Lewis recently wrote a piece that struck a chord in me, and I wanted to share it with you.
In the column he asks, “What is beauty without function?” He continues:
Compromised functionality can include Continue reading
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Walk this way, right into the kitchen of a pre-war building converted into co-ops. With the room's light bulb burned out and left that way for a showing, the photo quality leaves something to be desired.
Reading the headline, you may be expecting my usual rant about stainless steel, Sub-Zero refrigerators or granite countertops. As you already must have guessed, you would be wrong.
Although I have written and long believed that every kitchen can be dated by its trends, my chief complaint centers on Continue reading
Here’s your chance to catch up with news included to inform, enlighten and perhaps even entertain you. To read about The Big Apple, check out the other of today’s posts and look for Out and About early next week.
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Mortgage insurer says home prices are below fundamental values Continue reading
Is this a kitchen, dining room or living room? The conscientious broker who listed the place on Manhattan's Upper West Side characterized it as a "great room." Photo below shows the opposite end.
If a room is not a dining space, kitchenette, bathroom, foyer or hallway, then it can be termed a living room, according to the New York City Administrative Code. However, a bedroom can be marketed as a living room if it also does not function as any of the other rooms listed.
The minimum size of a living room is Continue reading
Out-of-towners invariably know two things about New York City apartments: Prices are high and kitchens are small.
But how many consumers and brokers alike know what a kitchen is? Yes, we have galley kitchens, country kitchens, eat-in kitchens and Pullman kitchens.
In fact, any space used for cooking either is a kitchen or a kitchenette, according to the city’s Administrative Code.
While a kitchen must contain 80 square feet, Continue reading
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