One of the purposes of a furnished model is to show buyers what will — and won’t — fit inside a home. It’s all well and good to look at a “living / dining area” on your computer screen, but until you haul some furniture into the unit, you won’t really know whether the sofa, the dining table, the recliner, and the flat-screen TV are all going to fit the way you want.
I went to 235 Van Buren yesterday evening to check in on CMK Companies‘ broker open house. There, Managing Broker Scott Hoskins introduced me to Branka Kojic, whose importing company, Casa Italia, put together two of the tower’s 14 new models. Kojic and I went down to one of those units, a two-bedroom / one-bath on the 14th floor, not so much to look at the pieces of furniture themselves, but rather to see what kinds of decisions her designers had to make when furnishing a 936 square-foot home.