CONGREGATING SPACES
CONGREGATING SPACES
Off the kitchen is a family room( above, right). The brick wall was a design element Zelman came up with during the decorating process. Here iswhere thefamily decompresses at the end of the dayand catches up on each other’ s news. Another gathering area is the upstairs landing( bottom photo) where the kids like to hang out when they are home.
“ It’ s like starting from scratch, a clean slate,” says Haya as she walks from room to room looking around her home.“ It’ s beautiful and functional, and exactly what I wanted.” Living in a condominium so close to town and the New York trains also allows Haya, a marketing and sales executivefor a startup biotech company in New York, and Steve, VP of health and wellness for the JCC organization, the ease to commuteand travel without the worry of all that comes with houseownership. Lock the door and go.
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