Paging through listings of bare, white-walled apartments filled with beige furniture can feel like a walk through the salt flats - even a stray pebble catches the eye.
This year, by asking about the wild and glamorous rooms we spotted among the duds, we also uncovered the stories of the distinctive, sometimes peculiar New Yorkers who live in them.
An artist whose work is obsessed with the "bleed between fantasy and reality" applied the same instincts to the top floor of a former shoe factory.
It's unclear what's the strangest chapter of Donna Henes's story: how she fought her landlord to get her apartment, or how she developed the style that she would decorate it in.
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