A couple sold their Park Slope brownstone and purchased two adjacent high-floor riverfront apartments, then engaged TBHCo. to merge them into a nearly 4,000-square-foot residence with five bedrooms and 4.5 baths. The homeowners avoided a full gut; designers created a pass-through by breaking through a laundry area and repurposed existing rooms. The former kitchen and living room became a family/media room with a wet bar, two bedrooms were connected into a primary suite, and a bathroom became a walk-in closet. The project added a centered enlarged kitchen island, a fireplace, custom built-ins, and a color palette inspired by river scenery.
The homeowners had no desire to drastically reimagine the floor plan. "They didn't want to do a complete gut," said Eva Dornstreich, TBHCo.'s design director, who worked with Style Director Holly Waterfield to reorganize the space and furnish it with sophisticated style. "Our strategy was to break through the laundry area of the smaller apartment to create a pass-through between the two units."
The designers used the former kitchen and living room in the smaller of the two original apartments to conjure a family/media room with a wet bar at one end of the newly enlarged space. Two existing bedrooms were linked by an anteroom to create a new primary suite; the bathroom attached to one of them became a walk-in closet. "This building is all about the views, so common spaces are big and breathtaking, with smaller bedrooms," Dornstreich said.
Anticipating an empty nest and looking for a lifestyle change, a couple with two teens on the verge of college sold their Park Slope brownstone and bought two adjacent high-floor apartments in a brand new riverfront tower. Then they hired The Brooklyn Home Company, an architectural design studio in business since 2007 that also goes by the name TBHCo., to combine them into one unified, functional space spanning nearly 4,000 square feet, with a total of five bedrooms and 4.5 baths, that maximizes panoramic river and skyline views.
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