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Latest Home Tours from New York

House Call: France's DIY Apartment
Paris

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Name: France Garnier
Location: Paris, France

When I first visited my apartment, it was all white — no floor in the bathroom and an ugly kitchen — but I immediately fell in love with it because I could see in my head what it would look like when I would be done with it. I had to make a big hole in a wall to have more light, to put some parquet floor in my bathroom, paint some tiling and stick it on my walls — and I all did it myself. So I'm pretty proud of my apartment now, and I would like to show it to you. I hope you'll like it the way I do. Enjoy the tour!



House Tour: T&T's Ramped Up Bachelor Pad
New York

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Name: Teman and Teran
Location: Dumbo, Brooklyn
Size: 700 sqft, 2-bdrm condo
Lived in: 2.5 years

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new_housetour08.jpgTeman and Teran are very talented twins with a background in architecture and interior design. When they decided to downgrade from a 2000 square foot loft, they didn't just move their stuff and call it a day! Before the move, they created a 3-d model to figure out how all of their current belongings would either fit in the new space or get edited out of their lives.

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House Call: pettybaum's Holiday Sparkle
New York

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Name: pettybaum
Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

We bought our apartment about three years ago and just finished a major renovation. While we hired carpenters and plumbers, we did most of the refinishing ourselves (e.g., staining the wood). We decided not to stick to one style, so our apartment is an eclectic mix of vintage and modern — a Danish midcentury modern desk with a modern ceiling fan or contemporary wallpaper accented with an antique medicine cabinet.



House Tour: Jason and J.R.'s Well-Connected Home
New York

12-15-jason-1.jpgName: Jason O'Malley and J.R. Craigmile
Location: Kerhonkson, NY (two hours north of NYC in The Catskills)
Size: 1900 sq. ft.
Years lived in: 4

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new_housetour08.jpgSocial networking has connected us with lots of people — friends from elementary school, college and beyond — but we never thought it would connect us with a great home. Jason and J.R. came to us through Facebook (Home Design on Facebook), and after AT readers requested more photos of their mid-century modern space, they were happy to comply...



House Tour: Sara's Bronx Overhaul
New York

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Name: Sara
Location: Riverdale, The Bronx
Size: 1550 sqft three-bdrm coop
Lived in: 1.5 years

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new_housetour08.jpgSara is an architect and interior designer. When she found a 3-bdrm coop in Riverdale, entirely covered in mirrors — walls, ceilings, doors, door knobs, light switches, crown moldings, inside the kitchen cabinets, the bathroom built-in cabinets, behind the plumbing fixtures and on the balcony — she bought it and couldn't wait to rise to the challenge of transforming it into a sophisticated yet comfortable home for her family.

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House Tour: Tonya and Ben's Den of Overhead Storage
New York

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Name: Tonya and Ben (and Maggie the dog)
Location: Financial District
Size: 700 sqft one-bdrm rental
Lived in: 8 years in the building, 6 years in this apartment

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new_housetour08.jpg Tonya and Ben had just moved to Lower Manhattan from Atlanta when the World Trade Center collapsed. Through the generosity of strangers and the sheer will to remain here, Tonya and Ben moved to a new apartment in their original building and still call New York home. On the domestic front, they've collected a lot more than memories....



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House Tour: Adam and Alison's London Terrace Masterpiece
New York

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Name: Alison and Adam
Location: Chelsea
Size: 900 sqft one-bdrm rental (converted to 2 bdrm via one very large closet)
Lived in: 7 years in the building, 4 years in this apartment

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new_housetour08.jpgOnce you visit a London Terrace apartment, you don't forget it. And once you rent and live in a London Terrace apartment, it's hard to move away. For Adam and Alison, two young children--Sailor (2) and Lulu (5)--and a large dog are not enough of a motivation to leave their one bedroom London Terrace apartment...



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House Tour: Downtown Artists' Loft
New York

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Name: Max Miller, Carla Hoke Miller and LouLou the dog
Location: Downtown New York
Size: 2,500 sq. ft loft
Lived in: 15 years

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new_housetour08.jpgThis is one of those amazing spaces typifying a downtown New York City of 20 or 30 years ago, when downtown was the domain of artists. Max and Carla have made this place their own.



House Tour: Lucinda and Nicholas' Transformed Tenement
New York

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Name: Lucinda and Nicholas
Location: Lower East Side
Size: 1000 sqft
Lived in: 12 years in the back half of the current apartment. (The front half was sublet). One year in the combined apartment

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new_housetour08.jpgLucinda and Nicholas, with the help of an architect, transformed two tenement apartments that they had owned for more than a decade, into one sleek and modern home for themselves and their newborn child. The space, in its former state, was very cave like so to see it in its current state, is a revelation.


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House Tour: Vanessa's Picture Perfect Home
New York

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Name: Vanessa and Simon
Location: Gramercy Park
Size: 500 sqft., 2-bdrm. rental
Favorite Element: Light

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House Tour Button06.jpgVanessa, a web designer, draws a parallel between organizing her belongings and designing web sites. She finds they both present the same challenge — how to accommodate a lot of stuff into a small amount of space...



House Tour: Laura's Pared Down Perfection Relocates
New York

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Name: Laura
Location: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Size: 250sqft
Lived in: 5 months

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new_housetour08.jpgLaura is a professional organizer and it shows. We last visited her in her former shrine to utilitarian yet soothing living a couple of years ago. Since then, she was forced to relocate to a smaller home that was in much worse condition upon arrival. Laura did not despair. In fact, she took on the challenge with gusto. If she could make this formerly dirty closet sized studio a place in which she and others wanted to spend time, then no task is too large.



House Tour: Patty and Chris' Stripping Down
New York

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Name: Patty and Chris
Location: Astor Place/Union Square
Size: 2000 sqft
Favorite: The ceilings, the windows, and the good bones.

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House Tour Button06.jpgPatty and Chris moved in three years ago. Once a candle factory, the space had since been overly adorned by a previous owner during the late 70s/early 80s. Instead of appreciating the apartment for what it is — a formerly industrial brick building with huge windows and brick walls with arches over each window, high ceilings and lots of space — the former dwellers tried to eek out an Italian villa in the middle of the Village...



House Tour: Stuart Masters Modern Glamour
New York

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Name: Kelly and Stuart (with help from PorterFanna Architecture)
Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Size: 675
Lived in: 4 years

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new_housetour08.jpgThe design and construction phase lasted only five months, but what took place was nothing less then wholly transformative. Stuart knew what he wanted. In fact, he learned the drafting software 'sketch-up' to illustrate his visions. Then he hired architects to help him realize them. The apartment went from typical to fantastic...



House Tour: Charles' Perfect Garden Apartment
New York

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Name: Charles
Location: Upper East Side
Size: 1100 sq ft.
Favorite: That even though this apartment is smaller than his last apt, it feels bigger.

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House Tour Button06.jpg"What you see happened in one day!" When Charles explained to me that the movers arrived early in the morning and by late that same night, (not that much after midnight, mind you) the apartment looked as it looks today, I was truly in awe of this man. Charles had been preparing for this day for a while, and had a clear idea of how he wanted his family's belongings arranged...



House Tour: Chad and Ed's Warm Neutrals
Brooklyn

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Name: Chad McPhail, Ed Droste
Location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Size: 1 bedroom, 500SF + 150SF w/ roof garden
Years lived in: 2, rented

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new_housetour08.jpgStepping inside Chad and Ed's Williamsburg apartment, there was an instant shift in our mood. Set on a quiet street in Brooklyn, the space is filled with light and soothing colors, and is impeccably arranged; As Chad works as an interior designer, this comes as no surprise...