Lucy Cohen Blatter

Sure, there's a large—and seemingly load-bearing—column (which, strangely, doubles as a closet) in the middle of the living area, but this is New York City, people, the land of the weird apartment layout.

Your significant other may look like a catch after they surprise you with a home-cooked three-course meal (or a plot of land in Newark) on Saturday night. But do you really want to share an apartment with your mate full-time? Below, a few points to think about before taking the cohabitation plunge, courtesy of Apartment Therapy:

When you hear that an apartment is furnished, you typically don't assume the furnishings include a four-poster bed that descends from the ceiling at the push of a button, and then folds up to reveal built-in lighting for a seating area below. But that is one of the features of this Lenox Hill studio, available for $4,475 a month (down from an even steeper $4,650 about a month ago).

If you've done all the math and figured that you can spend $650,000 on a home, you'll find mostly one-bedrooms and studios in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Head out to Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, and the number of bedrooms starts to increase. You  may even be able to get a house.

Reminiscent of European cathedrals and basilicas, vaulted ceilings are actually rather popular in high-end NYC apartments, where they come in all different styles and materials. Aside from lending a place some charm, they make a space appear bigger and more open—not that these dwellings need any tricks to look large.