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A 624-Square-Foot Apartment in Poland Includes a Surprising Ceiling
In Krakow, Poland, the Kazimierz district is a historic neighborhood which includes the city’s Jewish quarter. It includes numerous synagogues, restaurants, and memorial sites from before the Second World War, and it was also where Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Schindler’s List was filmed. The building in which this apartment is located dates from the 19th century, and is close to the Vistula river, which can be seen from its windows. Grzegorz Pniok, founder of the interior design firm Hauslab, explains the project: “This is where the owner grew up and he has many fond childhood memories of his time living in Kazimierz. He likes imperfect places that bear the marks…
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Small Home or Apartment? Here are 6 Ways to Make the Most of Your Cramped Space
This story is part of 12 Days of Tips, helping you make the most of your tech, home and health during the holiday season. When COVID-19 hit in 2020, my wife and I, with our two young children, decided to move in with my parents, in part to pay off debt, and in part to save money for buying our own house. We moved out of the first house we’d lived in as a family (before that, it’d been a series of apartments ranging from 600-720 square feet) and traveled to stay with my parents, where we would claim half of the second floor, including a bathroom, two bedrooms and…
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This Apartment in Northern India Channels Faraway Beachside Living
Quaint curios, rustic finishes, and surprises around every corner transform a Gurugram apartment into a vision of beachside living in breezy Goa, the faraway Indian state that stretches along the Arabian sea. Architects Navya Aggarwal and Simran Gawri designed the living room, dining nook, and main bedroom of this two-bedroom apartment on a tight 60-day deadline by minimizing structural interventions. They instead paid attention to the smallest of details: curtain ties and cushion covers have been given as much weight as the hard furnishings, and the result is a home that is sprinkled with surprises at every turn. “The clients were in Goa for quite some time during the lockdown,”…
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Brooklyn apartment gets decked out in cozy Christmas decor in festive transformation
Our team is dedicated to finding and telling you more about the products and deals we love. If you love them too and decide to purchase through the links below, we may receive a commission. Pricing and availability are subject to change. On this special holiday episode of 1K Dream Room, host Will Taylor (@brightbazaar) helps Ilene and Jorge turn their sun-soaked Brooklyn apartment into a winter wonderland with a budget of $1,000 and just one day to finish. The couple wants a warm and inviting atmosphere for hosting holiday gatherings that combines the beautiful dining space next to the cozy living area, and they’re excited to see what Will…
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In Paris, an Apartment Built on Heirlooms and Wicker
IN 1953, THE parents of Benoît Rauzy, 53, a co-founder of the design studio Atelier Vime, moved into a timeworn two-floor flat in Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The neighborhood — a tangle of streets radiating from the 11th-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés abbey — was in those days a sanctuary for artists, poets and freethinkers, a place where philosophers and writers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir would gather in cafes to share ideas. “There was a deep sense of intellectual freedom,” Rauzy says. His father, a dentist, had an office on the first floor of the six-story early 18th-century building, where he would tend to the neighborhood’s eclectic residents. “Some of them went…
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Mixing colors and patterns in a sunlit apartment
Directed by Yang Di. Shot by Yang Di. Edited by Yang Di. Subtitles by Yang Di. Stephanie Sallette’s apartment in the hectic downtown area of Shanghai is an city oasis with East-fulfills-West touches. The 120-square-meter apartment the French lady shares with her Portuguese husband Goncalo Vilarinho is on the 20th ground of a household creating at the crossroads of Anfu Road and Wulumuqi Highway M. Vilarinho experienced lived in Shanghai for three yrs ahead of the few fulfilled in France. “He always stated we had to are living in this section of the metropolis if we moved to Shanghai. I was so pleased to see the platane trees in the…
