Bright color, built -in storage and an updated floor plan maximize the usability and beauty of a new house for a young family.
Received a project for the proposal for The insider? Contact Cara at Caramia447 [at] Mail [dot] com
Blue, green, orange, red. Jazzy Terrazzo, lush flowers. What could go wrong? Nothing in Luki Anderson's renovation of a lower duplex for a young family in which the Brights are alleviated by a wealth of white. The boutique company of the architect Studio Officina based in Stuy designed a new layout and color scheme to satisfy the needs of the new homeowners.
They hadn't bought the Vintage Row House long before because they knew that they had to do significant updates. “It was poorly laid out, with unattractive bathrooms, one too big and one too small,” recalled Anderson. “The kitchen was centrally located”, but the two areas of work were “so far apart that you had to go for an hour to get to the other side. I usually make a large island, but after many iterations I did this C-shape with the peninsula. Then we really packed a lot of storage on the opposite wall.”
The quarter of the family consists of an open salon floor with a central kitchen, a dining area in front and the living room the full width of the building at the back with bedrooms at the garden level.
“The colors are very personal,” said Anderson. “They love Brights, especially blues and greens. One of the customers had recorded a card with 12 colors from Farrow & Ball”, one of The Paint Company in cooperation with the American fashion designer Christopher John Rogers. This became the creation of the color history.
The entrance to the entrance announces that Josef Frank Wallpaper from the Swedish company Svensk Tenn and the floor tile in striking red that this house is not shy.
The strong blue of the kitchen cabinets is combined with white tiles for the balance. “I wanted this interior to feel like discrete zones, but very open. There is a full view from one end of the room to the other.”
The custom mill is a mixture of wood and MDF with painted finish and quartzite worktops. Open shelves at one end are used for the storage position so that the boys can play while their parents prepare meals. The upper cupboards are limited to the middle cut of the main wall, since in the room -high cupboards there is a check over the room over the room with a coat cabinet, a broom cabinet and a pantry with a microwave and a refrigerator.
A tiled niche on this side brings a dose of red to the process. “It is a kitchen that works well for two people because they have this additional tocalism to prepare coffee and lunch,” said the architect.
24-inch Mal-24-inch terrazzo flooring tiles with a large format, slightly clean, extend from the side wall over the room, define the kitchen zone and take off from the wooden floor of the living and dining rooms at both ends.
The red trailer lights were obtained from RBW, a local manufacturer based in Tribeca.
Under the bend on the garden level, a lively green door with reed glass offers another moment of color.
The primary bedroom and the children's room have both deleted Wainscots, an economic opportunity to give courageous color.
A guest room on the ground floor with a Murphy bed also serves as a home office.
“The horizontal alignment of tiles in the primary bath is the idea of the Wainscot from the bedroom into the bathroom,” said Anderson. An RBW praise is “art in itself,” she said. “We wanted something that would be as interesting as on.”
Cement tile from Clé disguises the floor in the children's bath and then runs the pace in a pattern that resembles waves.
[Photos by Hanna Grankvist]
The insider Is Brownstoner's in-depth look at a remarkable interior design/renovation project by Design Journalist Cara Greenberg. Find it every Thursday morning.
Related stories
- The insider: cost-conscious overhaul gives the new life with Flachbush-Kalkstein
- The insider: Colorful color and tiles -PLG Row House Reno
- The insider: Partly Reno von Fort Greene Townhouse creates a new primary suite, a few home offices
e-mail tips@browntoner.com with other comments, questions or tips. Follow Brownstoner Twitter And Instagram and like us on Facebook.