Alcove Dining Room In Apartment
After years of renting, Tina Ramchandani and her husband, Ajay Swamy, searched for an accommodation to buy in New York City. They looked in areas from Queens to towns in New Jersey for article that was aural their account and had abundant amplitude to board a home appointment for Ramchandani’s autogenous architecture business.
A baby apprehension in a adjacency bi-weekly led them to the acreage auction of a seventh-floor accommodation in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village that had not been adapted back the architecture was completed in the 1960s. Looking accomplished copse paneling, wallpaper and aphotic colors, Ramchandani was instantly smitten. Aural four months, she had adapted it into a fresh, avant-garde ambience that she and Swamy favor.
Before Photo, aboriginal photo on Houzz
“After” photos by Jacob Snavely
House at a Glance
Who lives here: Tina Ramchandani, an autogenous designer, and Ajay Swamy, a artefact leader
Location: Greenwich Village, New York
Size: 1,050 aboveboard anxiety (98 aboveboard meters); one bedroom, one bath
Design and body team: Tina Ramchandani (interior designer) and Pegasus Realty Solutions (contractor)
Before: The apartment’s aboriginal interior, including the active allowance apparent here, had parquet flooring, acceptable appliance and, in added spaces, dark-colored walls that added a faculty of anguish to the setting.
“This accommodation was on the bazaar for a while,” says Ramchandani. “I anticipate bodies took one attending and couldn’t see accomplished the apparent things. I’ve done so abounding renovations that I wasn’t daunted. I saw a ample axial amplitude for a active and dining breadth and knew that it was an accessible fix to move a few walls to get what we needed.”
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: Anemic oak attic throughout and white walls accommodate a clean, beginning accomplishments for the capital accessible amplitude in the apartment, which includes the active allowance and entry, apparent here. Ramchandani additionally reconfigured the kitchen at appropriate to accessible assimilate the active allowance and tucked a flat-screen TV and media chiffonier into a bend wall.
One ample Roman shade, as adjoin to three abate ones for anniversary window, provides aloofness and visually lengthens the window wall.
The artist kept the accoutrement simple and, except for art, acclimated a aloof palette so the baby autogenous wouldn’t be overwhelmed.
“We accept a big ancestors and absorb a lot,” Ramchandani says, “so I advised a custom exclusive for best seating.”
Custom sectional: Home Interiors by Anthony Giaramita; white ancillary table: West Elm; console: Allowance & Board; paint: Super White, Benjamin Moore
The adapted apartment’s pale, aloof colors for the accomplishments and appliance not alone visually enlarge the amplitude but additionally serve a purpose in Ramchandani’s architecture business, which she runs from home. “I aces a lot of colors for my audience all day long,” she says. “My white ambience don’t baffle with that.”
In a bend of the active room, appliance with slim, midcentury profiles keeps things airy. The sofa’s Robert Allen affection bolt appears as several shades of gray, depending on the ablaze angle.
Before Photo, aboriginal photo on Houzz
Before: Acceptable chandeliers and copse bank graced the aboriginal dining breadth abutting to the covering closet and admission door. Ramchandani autonomous to abutting off the anteroom breadth the daybed was located, creating her home office.
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: The dining breadth is in the aforementioned atom in this appearance of the admission from the active room. The doors to the covering closet and home appointment are on the far left.
The brace best up the sectional’s accent pillows during a cruise to Morocco.
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
A custom banquette invites abiding about the dining table. The brace calm the artwork over the years.
Banquette: Home Interiors by Anthony Giaramita; table: RH; Panton chairs: Vitra; chaplet light: FLOS
Before Photo, aboriginal photo on Houzz
Before: The narrow, galley-style kitchen opened assimilate the anteroom off the admission and featured the aboriginal 1960s-era cabinetry.
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: Ramchandani closed off the kitchen’s aboriginal admission on the appropriate and placed the refrigerator adjoin the new wall. She opened the kitchen to the active allowance for easier entertaining. Removing the bank amid the kitchen and the active allowance additionally abounding the autogenous with added accustomed light.
New high-gloss Poggenpohl cabinetry as able-bodied as the white Caesarstone countertops and backsplash advice animation ablaze into the amplitude and reiterate the apartment’s aerial style. Cabinetry panels on the Liebherr refrigerator and the Miele dishwasher accommodate a seamless look.
Range and microwave: Smeg; sink: Blanco; faucet: Kohler, via Blackman Accouterments Supply; beam light: FLOS
During the advance of adjustment the kitchen, Ramchandani salvaged a band of the aboriginal wallpaper and absitively to anatomy it as a admonition of the apartment’s accomplished life.
Before Photo, aboriginal photo on Houzz
Before: The bedchamber shutters, wallpaper trim and aphotic copse attic fabricated it assume baby and a tad claustrophobic.
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: To actualize a new, serene bedroom, Ramchandani corrective the walls a abatement anemic gray and congenital a soffit aloft the window for new lighting and blackout shades. She additionally had the radiator corrective the aforementioned blush as the walls to accomplish it visually recede.
“The bedchamber is absolutely a appealing acceptable size,” she says. “We adopted a few anxiety of amplitude to actualize a new adept closet.”
Paint: Bunny Gray, Benjamin Moore
As in the blow of the house, accoutrement and accessories were kept simple in the bedroom.
Bed: Serena & Lily; nightstand: Pottery Barn; bedside light: Circa Lighting
A alley links the adept bedchamber to the adept bath.
Before Photo, aboriginal photo on Houzz
Before: The bath featured appearance elements of a half-century ago. The aperture offered a bright appearance of the toilet from the apartment’s entry.
Jacob Snavely, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: Ramchandani confused the bath aperture so that it opened assimilate a alley off the adept bedroom, abacus privacy. She additionally replaced the tub with a applicant shower. The footfall up accustomed the brace to do the new accouterments assignment aural their accommodation afterwards accepting to admission it via the neighbor’s bath below.
Vanity: RH; countertops, Caesarstone; battery fixtures: Hansgrohe
Gray, linen-textured tiles on the walls and attic add a tailored blow to the bathroom. The wraparound adverse provides an added landing abutting to the sink.
Faucet: Brizo, via Blackman Accouterments Supply; beeline light: Sonneman
Before Attic Plan, aboriginal photo on Houzz
Before: Here’s a attending at the apartment’s attic plan afore the renovation.
After Attic Plan, aboriginal photo on Houzz
After: The apartment’s attic plan afterwards the adjustment shows how the anteroom at the basal became a home office. The bedroom’s closets and the bath at the top larboard were reconfigured for added accumulator and privacy.
