For our eighth annual ideas home , we decided to make over two homes. That’s right. As the luxury high-rise One Park Row was being built in Lower Manhattan, we secured the four-bedroom penthouse and a two-bedroom apartment a few floors down. Our thinking: The former would be decorated by top-tier designers and people who know the home space; the latter would be revamped by some of our favorite design influencers and feature their DIY creations. The entire project took months. In fact, during our first few visits, the building was still missing some exterior walls!

Eventually, of course, the building was finished and the units were ready for our designers to get in there. To help you understand the dramatic transformations that took place, we snapped some before photos of each room.

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