A smart-looking Chelsea studio with lots of closet space asks $600,000
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This finishes are well-coordinated, which is important since you can see the kitchen from the living room.
With a chic sunken living space, three closets, and a sleeping alcove with a sliding door (making it feel like a real bedroom), this studio at 200 West 20th St. in Chelsea has lots of pluses. It’s listed for $599,000.
This apartment, #705, is in the Kensington House, a pet-friendly prewar Art Deco co-op building designed by famed architect Emery Roth.
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You enter the unit through a narrow foyer that’s currently being used as a dining area. There looks to be just enough room for a long, slim table where you can sit and enjoy a meal. If that's too tight a squeeze for your taste, you could put a simple console table into this space instead.
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The kitchen was renovated recently and looks tidy. It has a decent amount of blond-wood cabinets and drawers (although there’d be much more storage space if those cupboards went all the way up to the ceiling), and stainless steel appliances (including a dishwasher!). But chef types should think twice before moving in here as there looks to be only a cooktop and a microwave, no oven. There isn’t a whole lot of counter space, either.
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The white walls, high, beamed ceilings, and large windows in the sunken living room combine to create an airy openness. The room is pretty big, and is staged with a large sectional, a coffee table, and a TV stand. The blond-wood floors match up with the cabinets in the kitchen—which is especially important since you can easily see them through the pass-through window.
Two coat closets finish off the area.
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Just off the living room is the sleeping alcove, which is separated from the living room by a sliding door (which is great) as well as a window-sized opening (which is a bit odd). It’s big—with enough room for what looks to be at least a full-sized bed, as well as a nightstand. There’s also another large closet on the other side of the room. A ceiling fan/light does double duty lighting the room and circulating air—probably very necessary since there doesn’t look to be any place to put an air-conditioner.
The door, which resembles plantation shutters, definitely makes a statement, especially when compared to the hollow-core closet doors often seen in Manhattan apartments.
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The bathroom is nice, if a bit monochromatic, with white absolutely everywhere, including the wall tiles and the vanity. The room could benefit from a splash of color—a blue-green border around the wall, a wood-grain vanity, or even a funky light fixture. That vanity looks to be a decent size, offering a fair amount of storage space.
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The building has a 24-hour doorman, two elevators, a live-in super, a central laundry room, and a shared roof deck that looks out at the Empire State Building. Maintenance is $1,146 a month.
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