243 days on the market and buyers kept passing on this apartment overlooking Prospect Park. We restyled it, triggering a bidding war that pushed the apartment into contract in 24 days and for $405,000 over ask.

It had come to market as an estate sale, dated and a little tired. We treated it like a brand-new renovation. Nearly every room was repainted, the tired kitchen was brought back to life, and we restyled the whole home in a warm, retro-Deco spirit: semicircular velvet couches, oval mirrors floating behind the dining table, enough detail to hold you from the front door in.

The buyer who won it, a serious home cook, loved the styling so much he asked to keep the cookbooks we had set on the shelves. It was still the same rooms and the same address. We just helped buyers see the home in a way that made sense to them.