“We found our Greenwich Village apartment the best way possible: by accident,” begins Dan Mazzarini, the founder and creative director of BHDM Design and ARCHIVE. “Long story short, we walked into this building and asked if they had any rental units, and while they didn’t, they had one unit for sale … and the rest is history.”

Of course, the sale wasn’t the end of this home’s story; Mazzarini and his partner, Andy Grover, took on a year-long renovation of the space, which Mazzarini describes as a real “before.”