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A 41-year-old environmental scientist from St. Petersburg, Fla., is the lucky winner of the $1 million, custom-designed, fully furnished condominium at the W Boston in Midtown in a sweepstakes drawing sponsored by HGTV.
Joseph Haran and his wife, Jodie, a personal hotel list in london trainer, found out about their good fortune last week, when HGTV host Taniya Nayak and her crew surprised him at the Red Mesa Cantina in St. Petersburg. He was at the restaurant for a business dinner, he thought.
Nayak, who grew up in Weymouth, will present Haran with the keys to the 1,000-square-foot condo in a ceremony at the apartment Saturday, Nov. 16. HGTV will televise the giveaway in a Dec. 27 special.
In addition to the luxury one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath luxury condominium, which includes all the amenities that are afforded by the W Hotel, Haran and his wife won a 2013 Acura MDX crossover sport-utility vehicle.
The Residences at the W Boston, a 28-story landmark on Stuart Street in the heart of the Theater District, features 123 condominiums on the 16th through 28th floors; the 235-room luxury hotel occupies the floors below as does the signature restaurant, Market.
Developed by Sawyer Enterprises, the skyscraper was designed by William Rawn Associates | Architects, and associate architect was TRO Jung | Brannen Associates. Bentel hotel list in london Bentel of New York designed the interior space. It was completed about three years ago.
For the HGTV sweepstakes, Miami-based interior designer Lindsay Pumpa was brought in to transform the space, and local builder John Holland of M. Holland Sons Construction hotel list in london built out the master bedroom suite, moving walls and relocating the laundry. The original dark-stained bamboo flooring was extended into the bedroom, which had been carpeted.
For example, new contemporary Shaker-style espresso cabinets, provided by Cabinets to Go were installed in the kitchen, which has quartz counters and top-of-the-line appliances, and a new, 40-square-foot granite center island was added, separating the kitchen workspace from the living room.
This stone slab also serves as a good-sized dining table. Adding elegance and comfort to this area is a new Planika hotel list in london waist-high, smoke-free fireplace set into a wall accented with horizontal bands of stainless steel.
hotel list in london Beyond the living room is the master bedroom suite, separated by a pocket door. It is in this area where Pumpa and Holland made dramatic changes, slightly relocating a wall to accommodate a stacked washer hotel list in london and dryer and revamping the bath.
The bedroom has one wall of wide stripes of Sherwin-Willliams’ tricorn black paint and alternating stripes of white, chamois and foothills paint that extends across the ceiling for an eye-catching detail.
Next to the shower is a Kohler’s state-of-the-art motion-controlled Numi sculptural toilet, hotel list in london that also is an engineered bidet. Under the black quartz vanity topped with a trapezoidal vessel sink is a mirror that reflects the light and seemingly expands the sense of space.
He is not a stranger to HGTV. Using ideas and advice from the network’s hotel list in london DIY programming, he successfully completed do-it-yourself projects at his 1920 bungalow, including opening up an enclosed porch and installing a new kitchen.