Jon Kortmansky was away on business when his wife Lori discovered what would become their dream home. She was instantly smitten and in 2005 made the highest bid they could manage before he had even laid eyes on it. "It was a one-bed apartment, but it had these dark wooden floors that were almost black and she just knew 'this is it'," Jon recalls of the apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. An interior designer by trade, Lori threw herself into transforming their home into something