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June 15, 2016

Space Saving Ideas for Your Small Bathroom

In many cases, baths are already among the smallest rooms in a home—so what do you do when yours is especially petite? Here are a few tips & tricks on making your small space appear larger.

1.) Rethink your sink: Pedestal sinks can be attractive and have a nice vintage quality, but they’re not great when it comes to storage. You’re dealing with a basin you can barely put a bar of soap on! If you have a lot of accouterments, go with a console sink with a flat top or a converted cabinet with an under mount sink. You’ll have so much extra space, whether it’s to hang towels or store things behind doors or in drawers.

169 Hudson Street

2.) Creative fittings: A wall-mounted faucet is a very smart space-saver. Not only does it give you bonus counter space, it’s actually much easier to clean.

515 East 89th Street

4.) Create space you don’t have: If you can, hire a professional to cut into the walls just a bit to create a shallow recessed medicine cabinet. Or have them create a tile or marble recess in the shower, one just small enough to store your shampoo bottles.

500 East 77th Street

Throughout our portfolio (including all of the above), you will see various bathroom designs all fitting to each client’s needs. Our goal is to always give each renovation the attention it deserves and exceed your expectations; after all, we are Contractors of Distinction.

May 3, 2016

Annual NYC New Development Showcase & Forum

WHEN: Thursday, May 12, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EDT)

WHERE: Metropolitan Pavilion – 125 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011

April 13, 2016

First Look Inside ODA New York’s Luxe Long Island City Rentals

ODA New York’s cantilevering building rising in Long Island City is hitting the rental market this spring but looks into the new building have been limited—until now. The Post got a peek at new renderings of the 175-rental building’s interiors, the first put on display. The studios to three-bedrooms of 222 Jackson will hit the market in April asking from $2,600. Tenants can expect the luxe rental to have the amenities du jour: an attended, triple-height lobby; valet parking; a resident roof deck; and, via a membership, access to the building’s gym, pool, and resident’s lounge.

The renderings also come along with new intel about the apartments, mainly that the rentals will have white oak floors, Blomberg and Bosch kitchen appliances, and some units will have private outdoor space and/or concrete ceilings.

March 8, 2016

Priciest & Cheapest NYC Neighborhoods for Townhouses

Owning a townhouse in New York City may be the real estate dream for many city livers, but how realistic is that ambition? It all depends on the location you’re after. If you’re one of those who can afford to combine multiple homes into one megamansion, the entirety of the five boroughs is up for grabs; but for the majority of New Yorkers, that’s not likely the case.

But for those who are still chasing that townhouse dream, the numbers were ran on prices during the month of February in more than a dozen Brooklyn and Manhattan neighborhoods, and compiled them into graph which ranks NYC neighborhoods from highest cost per square foot to lowest.

The priciest neighborhoods in each borough are hardly surprising: Greenwich Village comes out on top in Manhattan, with townhouse prices as high as $2,662 per square foot; Brooklyn Heights, of course, takes the no. 1 spot in Kings County (and is fifth on the list overall), with prices reaching $1,516 per square foot. The other top areas are the ones you’d expect: the West Village, the Upper East and West Sides, Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill, and so on.

As for the least expensive, Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood offers the best deal for buyers, with homes averaging around $592 per square foot. At $387 per square foot, Brooklyn’s East New York is the cheapest of the neighborhoods that are accounted for, with Mott Haven in the Bronx coming in second to last. Sunset Park and Bed-Stuy are neighborhoods that are currently “on the rise” with average sale prices lower than $600.00 per square foot.

February 10, 2016

Upper East Side Co-op Asks $780,000, New Kitchen Included

Prewar co-op kitchens are not the stuff of today’s real estate fantasies: they’re notoriously tiny and closed off. Ripping them out is the number-one way to transform a dated space and that’s exactly what the buyers of this one-bedroom Upper East Side apartment did. After they closed for $550,000 in 2011, the buyers began a renovation that brought the apartment a sleek new kitchen that opens it up to the living area. The bathroom also got an aesthetic update, with a glass shower enclosure. Four years later the apartment is back on the market asking $780,000.