neighborly advice(3)

Rosanna -- sitting here with her husband, Louis Ruggiero -- says she discovered Cohler (who was a neighbor in her East Side high-rise) when she noticed his door ajar and couldn’t resist a peek inside. It had the same layout as her apartment but the similarities ended there. “I thought, this is it, this is what I want my home to look like. But then I had to pretend I wasn’t being nosy,” she adds with a smile. After a decorous delay, she ambushed him in the building lobby and begged for help. “We weren’t using most of the apartment before,” says Rosanna. “We were all kind of squashed in the kitchen every day.”