VonDalwig Structure brightens Brooklyn townhouse Home 22

New York studio VonDalwig Structure has overhauled the underside two flooring of a Brooklyn townhouse, including in additional home windows and preserving particulars inside.

Home 22 is in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighbourhood and was renovated by Philip and Equipment VonDalwig – the husband-and-wife behind the native structure studio.

The undertaking includes the reconfiguration of a decrease degree duplex inside a four-storey townhouse for a pair, one in every of which is a curator, and their younger daughter.

“They actually needed us to reconfigure their bed room ranges, and in addition to usher in extra gentle upstairs,” Equipment advised Dezeen.

“We took the strategy to rethink the standard of area, and discover some easy and clear strikes to convey extra worth and spatial high quality to the house.”

The underside flooring, which has entry to a again backyard, accommodates two bedrooms and bogs.

The floorplan is rectangular and has an entry on its street-facing aspect, in addition to a door within the again bed room that accesses the patio.

Within the rear main bedroom, the studio added a big sq. window framed in wooden, to double as a studying nook.

“We enlarged one window in the direction of the yard and eradicated one window that simply stared underneath the deck stair, due to this fact focusing the main bedroom to the higher viewpoint,” Equipment added.

The bogs for the bedrooms have been moved and joined collectively, to avoid wasting area and create a again hallway, which accommodates a shared closet.

“We reorganised the backyard degree shifting the main bedroom to the rear and making a cool hallway behind a set of bogs that serves as closet and entry,” mentioned the designer. “It connects the 2 bedrooms too but additionally a buffer area.”

Upstairs is the house’s important residing area with a sitting room, anchored by an unique hearth, and a kitchen situated within the rear.

Framing a picket eating desk is a window with an arched prime, which VonDalwig Structure added to convey extra gentle inside. The opening is subsequent to a glass door that opens onto an outside step right down to the backyard.

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Different updates to the 1,930-square-feet (179-square-metre) residence embrace large plank engineered wooden flooring, cupboards, and moulding that has been repaired and painted white to match white partitions.

Within the kitchen, the cabinetry is an IKEA PAX system hacked with Reform Foundation fronts in matte white.

In a single toilet is gray Ceppo di Gre stone from Italy, whereas one other has a darkish engineered marble created as a variations British Max Lamb’s Marmoreal.

The lounge incorporates a Matter Made black chandelier Arch Single Tier and a Vitsoe shelving system 606 Common.

“Along with a extra impartial palette – think about former blue partitions – to supply a background for the numerous artwork items from the consumer, the duplex reworked into a brand new type of its former magnificence,” Equipment mentioned.

Different accents embrace a choice of 5 totally different Junit pendants by Schneid, led by designer Jula Jessen, together with an Acoya gentle and a Hoist Sconce each by Brooklyn studio Wealthy Good Prepared.

VonDalwig Structure has accomplished one other townhouse overhaul in Brooklyn within the space of Park Slope with a rear extension.

The New York Metropolis borough is dwelling to a number of townhouse renovations, together with a undertaking by GRT Architects with a inexperienced kitchen and a dwelling with a big window in Williamsburg.

Pictures is by Alan Tansey.