1 bedroom apartment — Victoria Bridge Street, Salford, M3 5AS

This well-sized (72 m2) studio-like apartment on the 23rd and top floor in central Manchester offers its new proprietors the use of the various rooms for whatever purpose that suits them. Offered here as a studio, it can also be seen as an apartment with three rooms of various sizes and character (each currently with a bed). An unusually spacious kitchen adds to the free living space. This previous standard 2-bedroom flat is now a character apartment with high ceilings, natural light, inviting studio-like openness, and splendid ornamentation, manifested in large windows, marble sills, ubiquitous Crown and Panel Mouldings, ceiling Medallions, a black granite kitchen floor and worktop, a completely tiled shower room, light oak doors with matching brass handles, and an overall dark-brown wooden floor. Old walls and doors have been replaced by openness and lightness. One may walk through the apartment without opening or shutting doors. Slamming doors or locking somebody out would be difficult. Close and good contact among persons sharing this home is recommended. In this flat, a small kitchen is not hidden in a dark corner, but a large kitchen next to huge windows adds to the pleasure of any work here. Fridge and freezer, oven, microwave and dishwasher are integrated in plain white furniture. The underfloor-heated black granite floor and a U-shaped black granite worktop with an induction stove complete the black-and-white kitchen design with a few spots of scarlet red. The red sink worktop, cast in a single piece of red Corian, makes keeping the sink clean exceptionally easy. Over the decades, hundreds of visitors have freely shared their impressions of this apartment’s views. The temporary weather conditions determine how far one may see the horizon, but at times, the wide view is truly staggering. In this high-rise apartment, it is unique that one can also share a close view of people on the street in their daily lives