A Secret Trapdoor That Led to My Dream Office

All it took was 80 square-feet and a vision—I mean, who wouldn't want to spend their days working in a treehouse?

Something I thought was impossible actually happened at the open house to see the apartment we now own and live in. It was easily our 12th or 13th apartment viewing. All of them that preceded this one were gloomy and outrageously expensive. So, when we learned about this particular two-bedroom/one-bath in a fourth-floor walkup, and at the lower end of o…