A new, huge, bedroom spread out before me, beckoning.
The venue itself is a restored 19th-century mansion with a heated pool and courtyard, two bars, a dance floor, several stylized play areas, and a private bedroom spread out over four floors.
Mr. Tobias, who said he paid $41,000 for his two-bedroom spread in the 1970s, said it was not always easy for him to solicit fellow co-op shareholders for money because he gets off the elevator at the fourth floor.
Then again, a studio in the 46-story Trump SoHo runs about $1.2 million; Jacob Berman, a carpenter who helped build Trump Village and has lived there since it opened in 1964, rents a two-bedroom spread with an ocean view for about $600 a month (which itself is a lot more than the $250 rent he paid when he moved in).
Charo, who bills herself as "the original cuchi-cuchi girl," may not have much of a career anymore, but she has a really, really oversize seven-bedroom spread on spectacular Tunnel's Beach, on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, where "Jurassic Park" and "South Pacific" were filmed.
At 25 Sutton Place South (a large brick apartment house on the side of the street nearest the East River), a visitor is announced by the uniformed doorman, who addresses Angelo Sacaridis, the resident manager, as "sir," and is then escorted up to his apartment: a three-bedroom spread with a 30-foot expanse of living and dining -- an apartment that the super receives rent-free.
A farm ranch listed at $649,000 has five bedrooms, spread out on three levels.
Four bedrooms spread over three floors are charming and inviting, with small, perfectly formed bathrooms.
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) is about to unveil nine artists' bedrooms, spread across three floors of its venue – a sprawling, red-brick former town hall built in 1893.
The suite has one master bedroom but can be converted to a seven-bedroom spread with adjoining rooms.
The $124 million sticker price for steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal's 12-bedroom spread in London's posh Kensington neighborhood includes Turkish baths and garage space for 20 cars.
