Every year, celebrated interior designers transform a luxury Manhattan home into an elegant exhibition of fine furnishings, art, and technology. This year, a 7,000-square-foot luxury townhouse overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park serves as the canvas for the 41st annual Kips Bay Decorator Show House, which opened May 7 and runs through
Happy Mother’s Day! In honor of the holiday, here is a salute to the woman-cave. (Coldwell Banker Dream Blue Blog) What to do when you think if you see one more boring, tiled kitchen backsplash you’ll die. (Houzz) Multi-tasking is what we do. Now there is furniture to help us
Trying to find affordable housing can be tricky anywhere. But finding affordable housing in New York City is a totally different ballgame. Scratch that, it’s not a ballgame, ballgames are fun. This is like The Hunger Games, only with more bedbugs and serial-killer roommates. Ryan Nethery’s new, self-explanatory Tumblr, THE
What makes VHT Studios unique from other real estate phoptography companies or virtual providers is that VHT is truly full-service. From placing your order to receiving your photos, everything is done in house. Because of this, account services is a major part of our company. You talk to us on
The sunroom (sunporch, solarium, conservatory) has as many functional purposes as it does names. But whether they’re used as reading nooks, gathering spaces or just places for daydreaming, sunrooms gleam with light and functionality. To me, the biggest draw of the sunroom is the sheer amount of natural light that
In honor of all the rain we’ve been getting in the Chicago area lately I wondered if there were any real estate listing photos out there where people just didn’t care about water damage, and tried to use listing photos of standing water and ruined walls to sell their homes
Yes, the point of a waterfront home is the view and the beach. You don’t buy a home like that with the intent of staying indoors. But that doesn’t mean the interior can’t be the perfect complement to the great outdoors. This Montauk, NY beachfront home is bright, breezy, carefree
“Showcasing a home on the Internet is probably, besides pricing the property, the most important way to market a house.” True Story. (The Suffolk Times) Don’t even think about making a move. (WTF Real Estate) Get in the know on top agent’s marketing strategy. Hint: photography plays a major role.
High-definition photography is usually reserved for luxury homes, or it’s at least used to make properties look that way. Hate to break it to this seller, but no amount of HD is going to help this listing, save for maybe some good, old-fashioned cleaning and sweeping. However, since I can
If New York-based photographer Elizabeth Dooley could describe her job in four words, she’d say: extreme real estate photography. Whatever it takes to get the shot – climbing a rickety water tower above the Manhattan skyline in a dress and flip flops, climbing out a high-rise window, clambering up