eclectic kitchen interior design
eric schneider: hi, i'meric schneider. i'm a teacher. michael chen: i'mmichael chen. i'm an architect. eric schneider: we're about togo into my apartment on the upper west side. michael chen: we call it theunfolding apartment. eric schneider: i movedinto the apartment about five years ago.
and then it was very muchan empty space. the process of renovating thisapartment is definitely thanks to my knowing michael. michael chen: eric hasa really full life. he cooks in here, he entertains,he works a little bit from home. so he really needed all of thefunction of a much larger apartment than the one thathe ended up buying. so then the strategy reallybecame about how to compress
all of that extra stuff intoa really small apartment. when we were designing theapartment, there wasn't really a place to have a fullsize refrigerator. these are two under cabinetrefrigerators. they go underneath the counterand they have a panel to match the rest of the cabinetry. the idea was to conceal asmany of the things in the kitchen as possible. so this is the dishwasher, justbehind a custom panel.
we didn't want to see alot of exposed stuff. eric schneider: in this smallapartment, this feels like a full kitchen. i love that there's such a largeexpanse of counter that i can easily work at and bepresent with my guests. they can comfortablysit at the counter. it's probably my favoritepart of the apartment. welcome to my bedroom. this is a murphy bed inits down position.
it's just a normal mattressthat's plopped into the box that goes up and down. it's very easy. very comfortable, ifi do say so myself. you can see the little bed nook,and there's light back there, which is very nice. the hinge makes lifting the bedpretty light and it just swings right up. this is the home office here.
this desk goes up and clicksinto place very conveniently. so this is the livingroom here. it comfortably seats up tosix people, but we can squeeze more in. the table is nice because it hasleaves that open out and extend out to have more space. i knew it would just be a nicespace to be in, but it was the concept of michael's plans thatreally left me with a sense that i could live herein a really wonderful way.
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