Exarcheia | 169 Sq.M. Of Old Athens, All To Yourself | Top Floor Apartment 4 Bedrooms With Parking

Property Code: 7-710. There are homes you understand from the floor plan.
And others you understand better by walking through them. You open the door.
You pass the hall.
You see wood, mosaic, two chandeliers.
You move towards the corridor and somewhere there, before the home begins to unfold its rooms, a large handmade wooden world map appears on the wall.
Birch, painted in the colour of oak.
Engraved countries. An object that seems almost strangely fitting with the home.
Because this apartment too is, in a way, made for people who have stories to put inside it.

On the 3^rd floor of a four-storey 1983 building, on the old urban side of Exarcheia, two original properties were once united and created something that today is encountered ever more rarely in the centre: a 169 sq.m. apartment that occupies the entire floor. The 169 sq.m. were not created to impress on a floor plan.
They create space for real life. There are four bedrooms, a large living room, an independent kitchen, two full bathrooms with bathtubs, a space that can serve as a service room or auxiliary room, internal storage and two lofts. There are rooms that can change role together with the people who will live here.
Bedroom.
Home office.
Library.
Guest room.
Atelier. In one of them a small two-seater sofa-bed can remain, while in the bedrooms two independent wooden double-door wardrobes with mirrors can also remain.

The home has not undergone that radical transformation that erases every trace of its era.
And fortunately so. The wooden floors remain in the living room and the rooms.
The mosaic runs through the hall and the corridor.
The two bathrooms retain marble, bathtubs and an almost theatrical urban elegance of another era.  In one there is even an unexpected protagonist: the original urinal.
Not because every home needs one.
But because very few homes today have the courage still to have their own. The two chandeliers of the hall can also remain, while the wooden world map in the corridor functions as a contemporary handmade intervention among the elements of older Athens. The result is not a retro set.
It is a home that has grown without erasing its biography.

Even the kitchen has its own small story.
Independent and exceptionally bright, it has been renewed with a thick wooden worktop, lacquered cabinets, concealed lighting and a contemporary extractor, while retaining the characteristic vintage tiles on the floor. There is ample storage and a high counter with two stools — for morning coffee, a quick meal or that conversation that ends up lasting longer than the cooking. A refrigerator, cooker with oven and 45 cm dishwasher remain. And then you look outside.
From the kitchen window — even from the small auxiliary balcony — Lycabettus appears.
One of those small Athenian surprises that are not written on the floor plan.

The perimeter balconies follow a large part of the residence and do something different: they distance the interior from the building’s outline, bring light and air into the rooms and enhance the sense of a home that opens towards more than one direction.  

The apartment is bright and dual-aspect, with excellent orientation and open visuals towards the city.

The character is old.
The basic infrastructure is not. The windows are energy-efficient aluminium with double glazing and insect screens.
Central heating operates normally with natural gas, while there are six (6) air-conditioning units for cooling or supplementary heating.
Two electric water heaters serve the residence, which also has a security entrance door and the possibility of fibre optics. There are ready fittings for curtains and, should the next tenant wish, white curtains made to the exact dimensions of the openings can be provided. The building has only 9 properties, a lift, and has recently been painted both internally and externally, together with the balcony railings.

AND THEN, THERE IS EXARCHIA. You step out of the home and find yourself in that part of Exarcheia where Athens stubbornly refuses to become generic.
In the streets that climb and descend between Strefi Hill and Lycabettus.
Where old apartment buildings meet neoclassical houses, books, music, small cafés, tavernas, open-air markets, publishing houses and people who still use the neighbourhood as a neighbourhood with steps where the city sits rather than merely passes. There are streets that have appeared in Greek cinema, literature and music.
We do not need to write the address in order to explain the atmosphere.
It is enough to say that here you are in one of the most recognisable, bohemian and uncompromisingly Athenian micro-neighbourhoods of the centre. And when you return home, you have 169 sq.m. in which to distance yourself from all of this without leaving it.

In a city where large older apartments are constantly being subdivided, changing use or being converted into smaller units, the truly unusual here is not a design feature.
It is that the space continues to exist.  And there is one further privilege, particularly rare for this neighbourhood.
For the buyer who drives, there is the possibility of a reserved parking space for an additional €170 per month.
Not “we will look for parking in the area”.
A specific space that can wait for the car, rather than the car waiting for a space.

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