Lucy Cohen Blatter

We're having a hard time making heads or tails of this one-bedroom Park Slope apartment's layout, but that's not all that uncommon in a brownstone. There appear to be three rooms (in addition to the kitchen and bathroom), the middle one of which is a small home office/storage room.

Ten-and-half foot ceilings and extra large windows mean that this $650,000 studio condo is more lofty, and less claustrophobic. The apartment, on the second floor of 242 South First Street, between Havemeyer and Roebling, has a balcony and high-end finishes. But it also has remnants from its past: Built in 1911 and once serving as a cheesecake factory, it still has wide plank maple flooring and original exposed concrete beamed ceilings.

It may only be December, but we're already planning ahead—dreaming?—for this summer. And we wouldn't mind at all spending  our warm weather months, and a few of the colder ones, too, in this  three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath house in Sagaponack.