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[Nonametoday]

It is beautiful and what architects when they study interior design, how to make spaces appear larger and move walls and so forth around and then decorate like a professional.  It is so gorgeous.

[jubilant]

I love what he did to this apartment and I love that it is filled with his memories and likes so that it is a joy to come home to.  I felt like it was a "book" of his life and loves!

"Urban Garden Shed"....Ha! That's cute and I think it fits his style. The mural is fantastic.  I want  THAT ONE!!

The video was fun to watch. It actually gave me several new ideas.  Oh, and I loved the way he used that mirror. Everything in that apartment somehow really works.  

[Oznell]

I also liked "urban garden shed",  @jubilant .   And your designation:  "a book of his life and loves"--  that is spot on!

[Somertime]

@Oznell Here's a little trivia on Tudor City!  My mother was born in 1906 and raised on East 43 Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenue before Tudor City was built.  There was a hospital called Hospital for Ruptured and Cripple on 42 or 43 Street which was closed and moved uptown and is the Hospital for Special Surgery, my grandmother was a nurse at both and retired at 80 in 1947.  First Avenue was all slaughter houses, bakeries, shops and lower than Second Avenue which was on a hill (actually granite).  Everyone had to move who lived on 41 Street to 43 Street when Tudor City was authorized to be built..  Subsequently, 12 large beautiful apartment building were built between 1927 and 1930.

At the foot of 42 Street and Second Avenue a beautiful granite staircase was built leading down to First Avenue.

Here is the staircase and the engraving on the wall:

It's a pretty little area, right next to Turtle Bay!  

[Oznell]

Oh, boy, love the history and that granite staircase, @Somertime !

[Nonametoday]

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@Somertime wrote:

@Oznell Here's a little trivia on Tudor City!  My mother was born in 1906 and raised on East 43 Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenue before Tudor City was built.  There was a hospital called Hospital for Ruptured and Cripple on 42 or 43 Street which was closed and moved uptown and is the Hospital for Special Surgery, my grandmother was a nurse at both and retired at 80 in 1947.  First Avenue was all slaughter houses, bakeries, shops and lower than Second Avenue which was on a hill (actually granite).  Everyone had to move who lived on 41 Street to 43 Street when Tudor City was authorized to be built..  Subsequently, 12 large beautiful apartment building were built between 1927 and 1930.

At the foot of 42 Street and Second Avenue a beautiful granite staircase was built leading down to First Avenue.

Here is the staircase and the engraving on the wall:

It's a pretty little area, right next to Turtle Bay!  

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@Somertime 

Love the history lesson.  Authentic.  Not from a historical revisionist.  Your family lived it.  I love this picture of the granite staircase.  Wow, wow, wow!  Just wow.  They don't do work like that anymore.  What a beautiful past NYC (and all its subsideries) has.  Your grandmother was a real trooper!!!!!