"The common thread among the most-read "Great Rooms" stories of the year is the cleverness of homeowners who made the most of their often modest spaces. From the West Village to the Hudson Valley, Wendy Goodman found New Yorkers living in secret Narnias behind closed doors. On Bleecker Street, the shop proprietress Claude-Noëlle Toly turned her 275-square-foot studio into her own private Avignon."
"Charles FitzGerald and Kathy Cerick fashioned a cabin in the middle of St. Marks Place. And Amy Sedaris, who originally imagined a "department store" vibe for her guest apartment, gave up that notion and made the one-bedroom into a sort of tree house for friends. The exception to the rule is a grand mansion that appeared in our "Hamptons" issue: The countess who lived in the Port of Missing Men had more rooms than she knew what to do with."
Resourceful New Yorkers convert modest and unconventional spaces into imaginative, functional rooms. Secret nooks appear across neighborhoods from the West Village to the Hudson Valley, including hidden compartments and compact studios reimagined as distinctive retreats. A 275-square-foot Bleecker Street studio becomes a private Avignon. A cabin is fashioned in the middle of St. Marks Place. A one-bedroom guest apartment is transformed into a tree house for visitors. A sprawling Hamptons mansion takes a different approach by assigning a theme to each room, encouraging children’s play and even hosting ghost parties on a 600-acre estate owned by one family since the early 1920s.
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