Weekend Spotlight: Combining Two New York Studio Apartments - Remodelista
Photography by Alyssa Kirsten. This weekend we turn the spotlight on New York architect Lauren Rubin... ...a member of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory, who recently doubled her clients’ living quarters by combining two studio apartments in a 1930s Art Deco building on the Upper West Side. Rubin created an open kitchen into the original sunken living room by removing a wall of what was previously a galley kitchen. In the kitchen, white subway tiles hark back to New York in the thirties. An Eames Lounge Chair anchors a light-filled corner. A gray feature wall in the living room displays art en masse. Rubin inserted storage around the frame of the door to the master bedroom. In the master bath, white hexagonal marble floor tiles and white subway tiles reference bathroom detailing in the neighborhood’s “prewar buildings”–those built before World War II. Rubin used small marble subway tiles to create a wainscot that wraps around the bathroom. Above L and R: The original kitchen and bathroom. Above L: Another view of the old kitchen. The floor plan details how Rubin combined two studios into a two-bedroom, 1,069-square-foot apartment. The existing conditions plan shows the two studios before they were joined.