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sense of privacy. The home office
extends the living/dining room
visually, making it feel larger.
And daylight from the windows
in the home office area now does
triple duty, illuminating the office
area, brightening the bedroom
(via glass panels in the sliding
doors), and adding to the natural
Jones Condominium before renovation, light reaching the living/dining
showing the doorway from the bedroom room. It’s not often that adding a
to the living room.
wall can make a space feel big-
ger rather than smaller, or that a single new wall can do so many
things to improve a residence.
Jones’s other key modification was to open the kitchen to the
living/dining room by shortening a wall that had separated the
two spaces. This second change further enhances the apartment’s
sense of spaciousness by creating an open area extending from the
kitchen to the far end of the home office. Jones also converted a
hard-to-reach corner of the kitchen into a needed coat closet facing
the apartment’s entry door, and added a kitchen island that
provides additional storage and counter space. With this small
group of modifications, Jones made her apartment brighter, more
spacious, and better suited to the owner’s needs.
Photo © Anna Meyer

New doorway to bedroom. Photo © Anna Meyer
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