<p>This is colour as an explosion of energy, colour that could hurl you into the air if, by some magic power, colour was given force: a comic-book blast of Superman blue and red. It’s a bold choice, particularly since you cannot move from Woodward’s blue-and-red living room to, say, a bedroom painted a tranquil and self-effacing eggshell white. <br /><br />The living room is the bedroom is the dining room. The apartment is one open space – and at 600 square feet, a very small space. And while many who live in small studios hide their beds in pull-down contraptions, Woodward does not. Her bamboo-backed four-poster stands large and proud, “a temple within a temple,” as she and her design team at D’Aquino Monaco call it.“ <br /><br />The apartment had a cramped, dark bedroom and a tiny, walled-off kitchen. But it also had a very large asset: a wraparound terrace that was nearly the same size as the living space. <br /><br />Access was through a narrow living room door, though, and the terrace was only visible from two small windows in the living room, a small mullioned window in the bedroom, and another small window in the walled-off kitchen. Still, for Woodward, who had gotten into gardening when she lived in Los Angeles, the terrace was a big draw. And she was not concerned about a small living space. What was important to her was that her home be a refuge, she said, where she could decompress and restore herself. To create that refuge, she worked with Carl D’Aquino and Francine Monaco of D’Aquino Monaco, an architecture and design firm. <br /><br />“The renovation, which took 18 months from planning to completion, cost about $150,000, with another $15,000 for furnishings. Windows were an important design element. <br /><br />The multi-paned window in the bedroom was replaced with a more modern single panel of glass; in the kitchen, a window was added and another enlarged, giving Woodward views of both sides of her terrace; and the living room wall adjoining the terrace was replaced with glass doors. <br /><br />The cast-iron radiators dating back to when the building was constructed, in 1927, were removed. In the bathroom, a new radiator was cleverly concealed in a glamorous wall of mirrored storage; in the main room, radiators were hidden behind two broad steps leading to the terrace. <br /><br />And what’s interesting here, there is a lot of sky and blue. You see the tops of buildings, you see sky. It’s about sky.”<br /></p>
<p>This is colour as an explosion of energy, colour that could hurl you into the air if, by some magic power, colour was given force: a comic-book blast of Superman blue and red. It’s a bold choice, particularly since you cannot move from Woodward’s blue-and-red living room to, say, a bedroom painted a tranquil and self-effacing eggshell white. <br /><br />The living room is the bedroom is the dining room. The apartment is one open space – and at 600 square feet, a very small space. And while many who live in small studios hide their beds in pull-down contraptions, Woodward does not. Her bamboo-backed four-poster stands large and proud, “a temple within a temple,” as she and her design team at D’Aquino Monaco call it.“ <br /><br />The apartment had a cramped, dark bedroom and a tiny, walled-off kitchen. But it also had a very large asset: a wraparound terrace that was nearly the same size as the living space. <br /><br />Access was through a narrow living room door, though, and the terrace was only visible from two small windows in the living room, a small mullioned window in the bedroom, and another small window in the walled-off kitchen. Still, for Woodward, who had gotten into gardening when she lived in Los Angeles, the terrace was a big draw. And she was not concerned about a small living space. What was important to her was that her home be a refuge, she said, where she could decompress and restore herself. To create that refuge, she worked with Carl D’Aquino and Francine Monaco of D’Aquino Monaco, an architecture and design firm. <br /><br />“The renovation, which took 18 months from planning to completion, cost about $150,000, with another $15,000 for furnishings. Windows were an important design element. <br /><br />The multi-paned window in the bedroom was replaced with a more modern single panel of glass; in the kitchen, a window was added and another enlarged, giving Woodward views of both sides of her terrace; and the living room wall adjoining the terrace was replaced with glass doors. <br /><br />The cast-iron radiators dating back to when the building was constructed, in 1927, were removed. In the bathroom, a new radiator was cleverly concealed in a glamorous wall of mirrored storage; in the main room, radiators were hidden behind two broad steps leading to the terrace. <br /><br />And what’s interesting here, there is a lot of sky and blue. You see the tops of buildings, you see sky. It’s about sky.”<br /></p>