The Quiet Drama of a Queen Anne Parlor
We took down a wall, gave this Queen Anne parlor back five feet, and painted its original carved mantel nearly black.
VIEW STORY →We design with intention rather than trend: old and new, bold and quiet, gathered rather than bought. The result is a conversation between a nineteenth-century house and a twenty-first-century life.
We took down a wall, gave this Queen Anne parlor back five feet, and painted its original carved mantel nearly black.
VIEW STORY →We kept the 1886 brass, refinished the original vestibule tile and wrapped the vestibule in botanical paper and near-black paint, then let the hall beyond go quiet.
VIEW STORY →We repaired an original staircase’s carved newel posts and looping balusters, then painted the woodwork nearly black to bring every detail into focus.
VIEW STORY →We replaced an all-stainless, restaurant-style kitchen with a fifteen-foot Calacatta Viola island, built for eight stools and an ordinary weeknight.
VIEW STORY →We turned two small bedrooms and two small baths back into one suite, uncovered the original arches and gave both fireplaces surrounds of blue stone.
VIEW STORY →We stretched a five-foot-wide bathroom across the full width of the house, pairing a tumbled checkerboard floor with custom blue marble vanities and the original shuttered windows.
VIEW STORY →We turned a former bathroom into a small, sunlit retreat, swapping frosted glass for clear views of the trees and wrapping the walls in a blue scenic toile.
VIEW STORY →We added a guest room on the garden floor and wrapped it in Morris-inspired florals and plum-brown paint, so overnight guests feel expected rather than squeezed in.
VIEW STORY →We built a deep-green pantry that works like a second kitchen, with Breccia Pernice marble, hidden storage for the unglamorous things and a water station for the dog.
VIEW STORY →We turned the basement into a children’s floor for homework, movies and friends, under a blue sky of kites.
VIEW STORY →We designed a botanical bedroom for a girl growing into her own taste, grounding pink walls with a plum-painted fireplace and sculptural light.
VIEW STORY →We wrapped a bedroom in deep green walls and did everything else in pink: the ceiling, the crown, the baseboards and the original fireplace.
VIEW STORY →We kept this bathroom calm with large-format Carrara, then let pink in twice: rose zellige in the shower and a sculptural pink marble vanity.
VIEW STORY →We gave this bathroom a permanent spring: yellow wildflower wallpaper, dusty-pink cement tile and a green-veined marble basin.
VIEW STORY →With no windows to work with, we went dark on purpose: aubergine cement tile on every wall, Calacatta Viola marble and a black-and-white checkerboard floor.
VIEW STORY →We took this eleven-foot-high dining room dark green, framing botanical walls between white paneling and a new plaster crown.
VIEW STORY →We took a narrow service room off the parlor, painted every surface burgundy and gave it Rosso Levanto marble, a brass sink and a rolling library ladder.
VIEW STORY →We gave this hardworking laundry room the same attention as the formal rooms, designing custom storage around daily routines and choosing a quietly saturated palette.
VIEW STORY →We treated the garden as another room, layering planting and outdoor seating to create a private extension of the Upper West Side townhouse.
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