Article: Everything counts: restored to perfection on a grand Hudson River Valley estate, a humble cottage houses a very contented man.(antiques dealer David Petrovsky )

David Petrovsky's tiny full-time residence is no compromise: He prefers small spaces and fondly remembers "making little hideouts out of sofa pillows" as a child. He says that when he tours a historic house today, he tends to go upstairs to the maids' rooms--"I feel more comfortable there."

Petrovsky is an antiques dealer in the riverside town of Hudson, New York, and his 1840s cottage is five minutes away from his store in the adjacent town of Claverack, a name that reflects the early Dutch colonial history of this part of the Hudson valley.

Everything shows and everything counts when you live in two basic rooms that add up to 500 square feet, including ...

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