CONNECTICUT-BASED INTERIOR DESIGNER Billy Ceglia and his partner have escaped to Miami Beach for much-needed weekends of sunshine and relaxation for more than a decade. So when the time came to renovate the 1,485-square-foot “typically ’90s condo” they’d purchased some years back, the idea of spending extra time in these shores somewhat assuaged the start-from-scratch intensity of the project ahead.
“We did a full-gut remodel that literally took it down to essentially a ginormous concrete room,” says Ceglia. “The previous condo had no redeeming features, but we chose it because the location couldn’t be beat.” Just