This 650-Square-Foot Studio Has the Most Perfect Small-Space Dining Nook
Photography by Genevieve Garruppo
Christie Ward may have a way with luck—or, at the very least, with timing. She’s lived among the tree-lined streets and humming cafés of the West Village for 10 out of the 12 years she’s called New York City home. “I love the corner this building is on,” she says. “I previously lived on Jane Street, and I’d walk past this building nearly every day.”
The address is set between two parks, and when she and her husband, Sharif Zu’bi, toured a studio for sale inside the building, outstretched trees colored every window from the living room and bedroom to the bathroom and kitchen. As the founder of the AD Pro Directory design firm Ward & Gray and, with her husband, homeware brand el mono home, Christie knew she and Sharif could do something with its measly 650 square feet, given that it’s rare for New Yorkers to look out onto leaves rather than glimpse into adjacent apartments. But, as is the case with any diamond in the rough, things sure had to get shined up first.
