Take a look inside the renovation of 450-square-foot Gramercy studio
The main room. Photo: MICHAEL VAHRENWALD/ESTO Postwar white-brick studios, with their galley kitchens and low ceilings, are always practical yet rarely inspiring. But Danielle Rago wasn’t about to let that stop her. “I have been around architecture and development my whole life,” she says. Her father is in commercial real estate, and she interned at architecture firms in the city. After getting her master’s degree at the Architectural Association in London, she moved back to New York.
When her sister, who had been living in a studio owned by their family in a white-brick postwar in Gramercy since 2012, adopted a dog and decided she needed more space, Rago thought it might work for her as a pied-à-terre. So she decided to renovate it. The main room and kitchen before the renovation. Photo: Courtesy of New Affiliates. The main room and kitchen before the renovation. Photo: Courtesy of New Affiliates. Rago turned to Jaffer Kolb and Ivi Diamantopoulou of New Affiliates . The project required that the 450-square-foot space, which had been dominated by her sister’s bed and sectional sofa, serve as a place for both meetings and entertaining as well as become a minimalist crash pad at night.
“[For the main room], we had to think beyond the specifics of designing a living space. The apartment was meant to be highly flexible,” designer Jaffer Kolb says. “We installed new flooring all across the apartment. We chose a narrow wood plank that makes the spaces feel more generous.” The pre-finished wood flooring is from Mirage’s Admiration Collection in Red Oak Nordic. A new wall of storage space runs the length of the apartment.
The Main Room: Here, the Murphy bed is hidden away. The wall sculpture is Nonlinear Shapes, by Kai Franz. “Previously, the lighting was via floor lamps. We added wall sconces to bring even light from above,” designer Ivi Diamantopoulou says. This sconce is from Schoolhouse Electric. Subtle details like replacing all the electrical outlets and switches modernize the look of the space.
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