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Joe Eisner gives his expertise on how to renovate an NYC apartment with restrictions in a budget-friendly and custom-designed apartment for Reno Ready EZine.
This Hell’s Kitchen one bedroom, 467 West 46th St., #3N, is set up railroad-style, so there’s very little you can do about the layout. It is asking $445,000. But not being able to do major work is a plus, especially here.
“There won’t be a lot of expenses spent on altering any real infrastructure,” says architect Joseph Eisner of Eisner Design, noting that this unit is an HDFC co-op, which means it comes with income restrictions—a single buyer can’t make more than $95,030 a year, and a couple can’t earn more than $108,820 a year.
That said, some real cosmetic work is going to need to take place. It looks as though the apartment hasn’t been updated in some time. “The floors will have to be redone,” Eisner says. “And there aren’t even any pictures of the bathroom,” which is usually bad news.
In this week’s Reno Ready, Eisner explains what he’d do to revamp this unit on the cheap, including salvaging the flooring, keeping the bathtub, and installing IKEA cabinets in the kitchen…. Continue reading at the link below.