Mardaloop Residence is a project designed by Reena Sotropa In House Design Group. One of the most incredible sources of inspiration for your home is travel, and it was during a stay at NYC’s chic Gramercy Park Hotel that our clients found inspiration for their own pending bathroom renovation. Upon returning home from their trip, they called our team to help bring their vision for a ?crisp, clean and high contrast space? to life. As their bathroom renovation began to take shape, they started to fall back in love with their inner city home and asked us to help re-imagine the remainder of their 2000 square foot property. Photography by Phil Crozier.

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For this particular renovation project, our office provided both the design and the construction management. Luckily, the home is only three blocks from our office because we were there almost every other day from beginning to end of construction! A general challenge throughout the whole project (including design) was the small size of the principal bathroom. The overall room was only 8? wide and 10?-7? long. Our design team proposed 11 different options before landing on the final space plan. Given the tiny footprint of the space, scheduling trades became a bit of a juggling act as there was really only room for one person to work in the space at a time.
One of our main construction obstacles was executing the principal bathroom?s ?marble niche? detail. After our client...