New Yorkers are used to paying a lot, while living in small rooms. To date, the average price of a house in Manhattan is $ 15,252 per square meter. A renovated apartment in the Soho area is priced at $ 645,000 with an area of 32.5 square meters, which is 19846 dollars per meter. According to census reports, a typical American home of 250 square meters costs $ 227,700.
Designer Graham Hill
Graham Hill is the founder of LifeEdited, a company specializing in style and design and advocating minimalism and living at a lower cost. The houses he designs contain fewer things and help owners live within their means. Hill believes Americans simply don't need so much space.
US residents today use three times as much living space as they did in the 1950s. When asked why his decorated apartment costs much more than the usual cost per square meter than the average for Manhattan, Hill said that smart home services require additional money, although his company seeks to provide the best possible price for the client.
Christopher Testani
This designer also specializes in apartments for which he uses the concept of “less, but better”, which emphasizes the simplicity and high functionality of the premises. Herringbone oak floors and walnut wardrobes in the living room are an essential attribute Christopher uses when customers turn to him.
Unique furniture
All the furniture he offers is designed for more than one purpose. For example, various drawers can be reconfigured within the space, and the table can be used at the height of a small magazine stand or it is raised to serve as a dining room.
When the table is adjusted in height for eating, and part of the couch is moved to the other side, the living space can be transformed into a dining room. Thus, the living area can accommodate about ten people for dinner. The sofa, in turn, turns into a bed, making a bedroom from the living room in seconds. It has hidden retractable compartments for shoes and other items.
Features of mini-penthouses in New York
Any room in such a living room can be remodeled to fit any occasion. The list of proposals describes the living area of the apartment as a place that can easily be transformed from a bedroom to a living room, from a dining room to a meeting room and so on. In addition to storage compartments, customers can be offered a wardrobe. A short corridor leads from the living room to the home office. The room has a desk, and a small part of the sofa can be moved to the office. The compact bathroom has a storage space under the sink.
The kitchen is equipped with a built-in high-speed oven, dishwasher and water filter for maximum water efficiency. Like the rest of the apartment, the kitchen is designed to optimize storage space.
Homes are designed to be technologically advanced. These include Insteon lighting controls, Amazon Echo voice control, Apple TV, Kanto speakers, motorized blinds and energy-saving LED bulbs. For safety and health reasons, there are cameras from Nest, monitors that show air quality, and, accordingly, its purifiers. Automated Smart Lock allows you to open the door of the apartment using a mobile phone instead of a key.
Hill, being the designer of these penthouses, offers several layout options depending on whether you want to use the apartment as a studio or to accommodate guests. An alternative location allows you to add an extra bed in your home office and invite two more people. Another plan shows how you can set up a space for a dinner for ten. According to Hill, every square cm of apartment is always used. It is modern, useful and will never go out of style.
What else do New York penthouses include?
As a rule, according to the standard scheme, such residential premises offer people an area of about 100 square meters with panoramic windows. These apartments usually occupy the fifty-third and fifty-fourth floors of high-rise buildings with a swimming pool, which can be up to twenty meters long. Usually in a penthouse there is a fitness center, a children's playroom, bicycle parking, a cinema, a storage room, a relaxation area, a garage and so on. Modern designers emphasize that all amenities depend on the client’s wallet.
Thus, many are wondering if it is worth it. Penthouses in New York, which are priced so expensively, are very surprising. But, according to Graham Hill and Christopher Testani, this is just modern housing that keeps up to date and meets all the needs of customers to maintain a comfortable existence in their own home, for which you have to pay.