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Timeless in Tribeca

Creating a timeless bachelor pad in trendy Tribeca -- complete with cashmere walls and custom bedding!

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February 09 Farmhouse Functionality Think your kitchen is in need an update? Check out the transformation of one residing in a 300 year old house!
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January 09 Taking Out the Traditional This traditional 5000 square foot house, flourishing with French motifs, was initially only intentioned for a new coat of paint. What resulted was a grand display of modern design driven by the homeowner's desire for a creati...
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December 08 Small space, big design

Zen, derived from the Sanskrit Dhyāna, means meditation. So how does one reach an ultimate Zen state? By completely gutting their kitchen, of course!


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November 08 Lexington Loft Stifled by a bland, "vanilla" home, one homeowner opted to dip his new contemporary loft in color.
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October 08 Modern Galley Kitchen Once a non-functioning storage disaster, this galley kitchen went from bare and blah to a stunning show-stopper.
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August 08 Contemporary Carriage House Located in the historic Paulus Hook district, this carriage house that once held horses now hosts contemporary homeowners.
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March 08 Modern Masterpiece Left vacant and untouched for a decade, interior designers, construction crews, and structural engineers ascended a high-end luxury penthouse from a shabby shell to a modern masterpiece.
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February 08 Soho Chic For a couple with an affinity for mid-century modern design and a raw, unfinished loft, the possibilities were endless.
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January 08 Victorious Modern How do you modernize a Victorian over 100 years old? Seems like a daunting task, but designer Jason Claire pulls it off flawlessly.
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September 07 iPod Style The ubiquitous iPod serves as inspiration for this teen bedroom in desperate need of a modern makeover!
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August 07 Open up to modern An abandoned and outdated kitchen gets the modern treatment from two Pennsylvania designers.
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July 07 Green Piece What happens when you combine environment-minded homeowners with modern style? A space that would make anyone green with envy.
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May 07 Asian Influence From bare and uninspiring to warm and inviting -- see how designer Stanley Tham transformed this Singapore condo in just two weeks!
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March 07 The Great Outdoors

WARNING: the following images may cause extreme jealousy, spark major bath renovations, or even an impulsive purchase of plane tix to Costa Rica...


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January 07 Show-quality kitchen See what happens to a dark, depressing, and traditional kitchen when a designer is set free from budget limitations and design restrictions.
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December 06 Removing the wall to modern Boxed in and segregated before, continuous and open after... A pair of doctors' out-dated kitchen goes under the knife.
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October 06 Fit for a Teen What happens when bite-sized furnishings and parent-picked decor no longer suit their style? Take a glimpse into the future of teenage bedrooms!
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August 06 Balancing Act A disjointed space with disproportionate ceilings is unified with color, texture and balanced forms.
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June 06 Oceanside Gardens & Outdoor Rooms Beach bums go for luxury with an oceanside garden, outdoor rooms and sculptural glass firepit.
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May 06 Breaking Out of the Little White Box Challenged by its narrowness and unsettlingly-high ceilings, Artchitect Andreas Charalambous renovates a loft in the historic Capitol Hill district. Paying attention to the details makes this DC loft go from Blah to Ah.
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February 06 Modern Custom Bathroom With a lot of planning and ingenuity, husband and wife owners of SchappacherWhite LTD. prove that the secret to a successful marriage is a functional bathroom, not separate bathrooms.
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January 06 How to Turn Modern into Art Evoke spiritual harmony and order by reducing to the essentials of color and form – the basis for the 1920s artistic movement of De Stijl -- and this Manhattan loft makeover.
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November 05 Relaxation Made-To-Order To fill her clients' request of relaxation wrapped in sophistication, designer Carolin Schebish turned to custom-made cabinetry, bedding and lighting to warm this remodeled master suite.
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October 05 $20,000 Great Room from PURE CONTEMPORARY

When Tim Westergard entered PURE CONTEMPORARY’s $20,000 Great Room Giveaway last winter, he had his wife Cindy in mind.“ Cindy and I were high school sweethearts and have been married for 15 years. This is our first house ...
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October 05 Lofty Aspirations How do you transform an old Tribeca Loft used as a painter's studio into a modern, inviting family space? Turn to Andre Kikoski for some modern airbrushing.
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August 05 Private Home, Public Art From plain old house to Lugano Vista, now this lot in Winter Park, FL stands out for all the right reasons: its minimal aesthetic, pure design, and, perhaps most of all, its nod to modern art.
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July 05 Modern Retreat To turn a regular New Jersey Shore house into a low-maintenance, modern retreat, designer Meg Rodgers went east, Far East.
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May 05 Making Old Modern New Again Unwilling to obliterate their home's Mid-century contemporary design in search of their 21st Century dream kitchen, these home owners started feeling blue.
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March 05 Go Green, Be Envied For Donnalyn Polito this project was a chance to totally transform disorganized, drab spaces into clean environmentally responsible getaways and to show that green design doesn't mean macramé.
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February 05 Sweet Home Chicago Kitchen The new owners of this Chicago loft loved the wide open space of their new home but knew that their yen for high-end contemporary style could never be satisfied with the kitchen that came with it.
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January 05 Practical Plan for Inviting Pad To create welcoming, common areas for residents of NYC's upscale Nicole apartments, architect Stephen Alton turned sophisticate and made what may normally just be a "lounge" into an inviting, formal "Salon."
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January 05 The Modern Man's Cave The former warehouse had exposed bricks, dark floors and a dearth of windows that exuded bunker. Rather than fight the surroundings designer Chris McCray embraced them and turned this empty hollow into a modern man's cave.
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December 04 Modern Miracle A young couple's sophisticated taste and the skill of a gifted architect take this historic kitchen from vintage to voguish in glass, oak, stainless steel, and the leading guidelines of modern style.
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October 04 Style Revival Lightening and brightening, Lee Bryan creates an au courant room that rescues a young couple from style suffocating hand-me-downs.
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October 04 Facelift for an Aging Star The 1960s architecture, beautiful in its day, had tired like an aging star. How to unify the space and reclaim the condo as a cosmopolitan retreat that wouldn’t sacrifice style for comfort?
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October 04 Fantasy of the Opera The setting was great, the view spectacular -- but the walls were oh so white. And while the living area was spacious -- what to do with the adjacent utilitarian kitchen? Color was to be the key element that would mask the mu...
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August 04 From Bricks to Basics Turning this dreary and dated colonial space into a vibrant contemporary family room was made more challenging by the overpowering brick wall--and a budget of less than $20,000!
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