The first 4 pics are of a stock 2br 2ba unit, c.1976 Woodwinds Garden Style
6-unit condominium building in 
Reston VA.My unit started out just like the one shown but is an end unit with an additional 94" x 62" window, and a 20" x 62" master bath window on the living quarters level, its kind of a bi-level to achieve the
10' 6" ceilings in the rear space, and the windows on the rear of the unit go from floor to ceiling, revealing the wide strip of nature reserve land seperating woodwinds from the next development. This vintage modern space, was concrete slab constructed, it's great because it's super quiet and it means almost every wall is removeable, except a
semi-load bearing cinder block wall on one side of the mechanical closet. Really the only major disappoint with the place. It would be much cooler if the entire rear walls of the units were glass and placing the heating and cooling units outside or on the ceiling. It was not feasible or permitted for resident to alter. So it stayed. But this was the coolest structure I could afford in 2002.When I moved in I guttted the most of the rea space rear space except the mechanical closet. I removed the walls around the kitchen, the soffet, hvac tubes inside the soffet and the entire kitchen, and the semi-wall stairway bannisters (added tons of visible square footage.) I lived here creating art and painting for 5 years while day jobbing at AOL. My junk shop studio. Scary I really never missed a kitchen much, probably should have left the sink. I slowly modernized it with clearing the concrete beam ceiling of white popcorn with a powerwasher, redoing the shallow carpeted concrete steps with wood planks, and putting in exposed duct work, added black bamboo floors wall to wall and a modern compact euro-style kitchen, 2 ceiling fans, Cable Railings soon, Slate Foyer/Entryway. Should be done this first level in a couple of weeks. Then it's off to the living quaters, 2 full baths and the 2 bedrooms.
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