Bay Harbor

A gut in an occupied building

An apartment gut is a different animal from a house. You are working inside somebody else’s building, which means a board approval, an elevator reservation, protected common areas, fixed working hours, and a plumbing riser you share with the units above and below.

This one went back to the structure. The photographs of the bare slab and the exposed ceiling are the middle of the job, and they are the reason the finished rooms look the way they do — the floor was levelled and the services were re-run before anything was tiled.

We also did the interior design, which on a project this size is less about taste than about deciding early. Where the marble seam falls, how deep the vanity is, which way the shower glass swings — these get chosen at rough-in or they get compromised later.