Making the most of a one-bedroom co-op

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What can you do to improve a ninth-floor one-bedroom, one-bathroom corner co-op with bright western views and beautiful sunsets in a building set back from the street on beautifully landscaped grounds? 

If you’re the owner of Apartment 9FF at 5500 Fieldston Road, you turn a drab kitchen into a spotless gourmet workspace and transform the bathroom with a top-to-bottom renovation.  

Then you accentuate the positive, polishing oak parquet floors and showing off commodious closet space. 

The kitchen sits like an island surrounded by a living room nearly 20-feet long and an unusually large dining ell. It features new hardwood cabinetry, oversized ceramic floor tiles, composite countertops and stainless steel appliances.

 The building offers a community room, bicycle room and storage rooms. Located just outside the Fieldston historic district, the pet-friendly building is close to shopping, transportation, schools and parks. 

According to Mary Phelan-Kavanagh of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the 800-square-foot apartment is listed at $165,000 with monthly maintenance of $833. Maintenance includes gas and electricity.

Fieldston, Home of the Week

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