Mid-century Scandi meets ’70s Italian modern Project: Brighten a dark and closed-off kitchen in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn Before: A beautiful neighborhood, an optimal layout, and an abundance of natural light drove Melissa’s decision to purchase her corner unit apartment in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill Co-ops in 2004. From the moment she bought it, the literary agent […]
In 2005, a condo conversion gave Felix the opportunity to buy an apartment in the Williamsburg building where she had rented for three years. Although she considered renovating the spacious but “grim” rental-grade bathroom at the time, she procrastinated…for over a decade. It wasn’t until 2016 that she pulled the trigger, but the results were […]
Racing to line up an ambitious renovation before closing on a dated co-op in Woodside, Queens, Maria, a financial reporting director at a major media company, and Eric, the owner and Creative Director at broadcast design studio General Idea, expected “pain and horror” as first-time renovators. They’d linked up with an architectural designer and came […]
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