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This is an extract from a wonderful film that we love: Paris, Je t’aime! made up of many short films by different directors, we feel that it really depicts perfectly the wonder of Paris, how she transforms people, affects them, offers a backdrop to extraordinary love affairs and so much more… We particularly enjoyed this story, but all of them are very touching…

By the way, it was filmed just around the corner from our apartment reference N° #010 -  Design Dream Apartment to rent in the Republique area of Paris.

…..Enjoy!

If you want to offer an unusual and unique gift for Christmas (or any other occasion for that matter) this year, why not consider a gift voucher from Special Apartments Paris?

We can send you a A4 sized  card/voucher with the amount that you would like to spend (valid for one year) ,that you can print at home and give to your loved one. Simply fold the card to make a greeting card, that you can personalize inside.

A facsimile of one of the special apartments gift vouchers

Special Apartments Gift voucher insert.

All they have to do is give the reference number and the name of the person who gave the gift, in order to exchange their voucher for a stay in one of our apartments.*

*Valid one year from the date of emission.

For more information contact john@specialapartments.com

Walking to the office this morning 17th December 2009

Its snowing this morning in Paris! Snow just changes everything, something romantic about it; sounds are different, the light is different……Realy feels like Christmas is coming! I took some pictures to share.

View from the office of Special Apartments Paris

We’ve just photographed three of our apartments again!

We photographed Reference #039, because we had the 50′ vintage armchair re-upholstered in a beautiful turquoise wool fabric and put up some new photographic artwork in the bedroom. Its a great apartment in a very popular area with the fashion/art crowd and there is a great food market just around the corner.

We hadn’t had a chance to take proper photos of the apartment reference #028 that we renovated recently, because it has been fully-booked since we started renting it out a few months ago. The photos that we had, showed the apartment before it was completely finished. There is still some artwork to go there and a chair for the desk, which are all arriving in the next few days. We will keep you posted.

At Reference #004, in the Marais area of Paris, we recently added a new very good sofa-bed from Steiner. It has a good mattress, unlike many sofa-beds. We also changed the table and chairs (Bertoia) and put some new photographic artwork on the walls. We hope you like it!

One of our guests who stayed with us recently was tempted by the idea of acquiring her own apartment in Paris. She has found an apartment in the Marais and asked us to check it out and maybe help her out with the administrative side, with a view to managing the apartment. So at 1:30 today Régis and John have an appointment with the real estate agent to look at the apartment and see if it is suitable for us to take on.

We recently completed a total renovation of a studio apartment in the very central Les Halles neighbourhood of Paris for one of our investment clients. The apartment is situated on the first floor of a 17th century building, with very high ceilings. It is about 35 sq. Metres large.

The first pictures show the apartment before we started  renovation. There was a mezzanine that cut the light coming into the apartment making it very dark, which we moved to the other side of the studio, in order to open up the two large windows giving on to an inner courtyard. We also completely restored and renovated the plumbing and electricity, created a new modern bathroom with a large shower, toilet and sink and a modern American kitchen.

Below, you can see some images of the project that we presented to the client.

And after approximately six weeks of renovation and two more weeks for the decoration we were able to welcome guests in the new apartment, who were extremely happy with it.

Here are some pictures that we took in the beginning. We will be posting some better photos (some features such as the kitchen and curtains were not yet fully installed in these photos) on the web page of the apartment, http://specialapartments.com/12_cossonnerie.html