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Before & After: Avenue Rapp
Clients from the Philippines, a lawyer and a businessman, sought a very rare combination: a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with major Eiffel Tower views. Now a beautiful Paris vacation rental, the central hub of the apartment is the kitchen, the rest of the space
is divided between the bedrooms and bathrooms connected down a long hallway, and the living and dining room connected by a beautiful molded archway. 
A total redesign and remodel relocated the kitchen so that it opens more directly to the entertaining rooms, resulting in this oasis of calm, perfectly suited for entertaining, in the heart of the 7th arrondissement. 
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