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Thinking of sprucing up your balcony?

If you are fortunate enough to have an outdoor space in your Manhattan property, you are truly one of the lucky few. Now that Spring is finally here, BuzzBuzzNews gives us 22 ideas of how to inexpensively take your balcony to the next level.

22 ideas to spruce up your Manhattan outdoor space

 

The Author-  Brian Silvestry , a licensed real estate broker, has been selling residential and commercial real estate since 1999. He has sold in every neighborhood from Battery Park City to Washington Heights.

Looking for a way to use your outdoor space this winter?

In New York City, outdoor spaces are coveted and as a result  at a premium. In some new developments, outdoor space is priced at nearly the price of interior square footage. Typically in the cold months which used to be November through April here in Manhattan, outdoor spaces get neglected and not used. In Manhattan’s Park West Village on the Upper West side, many apartments have terraces which lay barren during the winter.

What should you do with them once the normally cold winter arrives? One obvious choice is storage and another suggestion given in Real Estate Weekly’s article is get heatlamps or if your space is ample enough then a gas fireplace may do the trick.

Real Estate weekly full article