In Brooklyn‘s Park Slope neighborhood, this Tudor row house had the rarest of amenities: a private garage with a shared driveway. But its interior layout was so bad that the basement stair severed the tiny kitchen from the rest of the house. It also suffered from years of shoddy renovationsandno storage.
We reoriented the stair, which gave the kitchen enough room for multiple cooks and an eat-in island. And by reorganizing the entry, we added generous closets for coats, bikes, and storage. A huge soapstone fireplace is the centerpiece of a mod living room wall made of solid walnut planks.
Upstairs, we ripped out the dropped ceilings in the kids’ bedrooms to expose soaring cathedral ceilings under the steep slate roof. Built-ins create cozy window seats and clever storage. The new master suite has large steel windows and a private roof deck. By using traditional materials, we seamlessly wove these modern insertions throughout the house.
Material Used:
1. Kemper – roofing membrane –Kemperol V210 two-component fluid-applied polyester membrane system
2. Evergreen Slate Company – slate roof shingles –22” long, butt shape, square cut
3. Upstate Door – doors –painted 1¾” flush solid-core doors
4. Baldwin –door knobs –Classic Knob 5405.150
5. Marvin – double hung windows – Ultimate Series
6. Optimum – steel casement windows – HR4700 Series
7. Master bathroom vanity – teak-veneer plywood with Barrocasoapstone countertop
8. Living room fireplace – Barroca soapstone with surround of walnut planks
9. Kitchen cabinets – bamboo plywood – amber edge grain 3-ply vertical cross core by Plyboo
10. Kichen countertops –Barroca soapstone