Tag Archives: renovation

The Insider: Updating a Brooklyn Heights Pre-War

Posted on April 19, 2012 by cara

WHAT IS, above. WHAT WAS, below. From a fusty 1920s apartment, with closed-off rooms, a tight galley kitchen, and dropped ceilings, to a bright and open 1,500 square feet, designed by Elizabeth Roberts for the way people live today. That’s the … Continue reading →

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The Insider: Pre-War Gut in Brooklyn Heights

Posted on February 16, 2012 by cara

AN ARCHITECT’S OWN HOME, furnished with 20th century design classics, is the subject of today’s Insider on Brownstoner.com. The changes Platt Dana made were subtle, but they brought the apartment from dowdy and confined to open and filled with light. … Continue reading →

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The Insider: Well-Crafted Rehab in Bed-Stuy

Posted on October 20, 2011 by cara

ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS of last Saturday’s Bedford-Stuyvesant House Tour (the 33rd annual!) was the impressive level of craft in the bay-windowed 1890s limestone where Christiaan Bunce and his wife Jules Gim recently completed a gut rehab. No surprise, as … Continue reading →

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The Insider: Radical Reno in Red Hook

Posted on October 13, 2011 by cara

THIS WEEK, “The Insider,” my Thursday interiors column for Brownstoner.com, visits out-of-the-way Red Hook, where a surprisingly open, bright, and modern interior hides behind a nondescript, vinyl-clad facade. Architectural designer Elizabeth Roberts transformed the space, a formerly unfinished, unheated basement, … Continue reading →

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Amagansett Flipper: Before & After

Posted on June 25, 2011 by cara

AN ITEM ON CURBED HAMPTONS, the real estate gossip site that is the Brownstoner of the East End, caught my attention this week: a 4BR, 4 bath Amagansett house on 3/4 acre, newly on the market for $2.2 million. It … Continue reading →

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