A one-bedroom with around 800 square feet, it had not just a sunken living room but a dining area and an up-to-date kitchen.
Linda Steigerwald, Sotheby's International Realty, (914) 833-5935; www.sothebysrealty.com TAXES: $11,722 PROS: The house has an up-to-date kitchen, a fireplace in the large living room, refinished wood floors and a family room with an exposed stone wall.
Their apartment is a fifth-floor walk-up, but it has hardwood floors, exposed brick walls, an up-to-date kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, and what all three women refer to as their "pride and joy" — a combination washer/dryer in the renovated bathroom.
Susan Graziano, Century 21 Wolff (914) 422-9270 or (914) 946-9100; www.cenTAXES1wolff.com TAXES: $12,214 a year PROS: The light-filled home has an up-to-date kitchen and a spiral staircase leading to a desk nook in the bell tower.
What was once a small, outdated kitchen that adjoined a breakfast room and laundry room in a Toluca Lake house (built in the 1930s for movie producer Virginia Van Upp) has become the newly renovated, up-to-date kitchen of Helen and John Martin.
With their cinnamon-colored shake siding, decks opening onto on a big lawn fronting the river, up-to-date kitchens, knotty pine interiors and cathedral ceilings, these 11 rental cabins are a cut above the standard mossy Northwest fare.
On the outside, these circa 1940s and '50s lodgings may appear to be a few decades behind the time, but on the inside the best-appointed ones are up to date with wireless Internet and full kitchens.
She brought it up to date.
It also keeps everyone up to date.
