Gallery: NY's First Micro-Apartments Actually Look Kinda Comfortable

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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-2

    The Carmel Place apartments will be New York City's will be first official micro-apartments. Stage 3 Properties is a a housing-solutions platform for rental units that handled the interiors. Here's what the living room-slash-bedroom will look like.
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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-5

    The point of these apartments is make a 300-square-foot apartment perform like one with 600 square feet. Hence the expandable dining room table, which seats 12 people.
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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-4

    The apartments have neutral, minimal furnishings—there’s lot of white, gray, and pale wood.
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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-7

    The apartments will come rigged with a new lifestyle brand, called Ollie. The brand is a string of services like high-end furniture sourced from Italian designers, a housekeeping service, Wi-Fi, cable, and a weekly errand handled by a personal “butler." It's included in the rent.
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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-8

    The first set of units are going for $2,500 to $2,800 a month.
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    Stage 3 Properties
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    335-E-27th-St-9

    Small-space living is not new in New York City. Carmel Place is introducing something slightly different, which Stage 3 would describe as a lifestyle. Besides Ollie amenities, it's presenting a different way of thinking about and approaching housing in an urban area. There's a big emphasis on community.
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