Eight residences.
Before and after.

The loft had been split, glassed in, and over-furnished by the last twelve years. We took it back to the concrete and the steel, then rebuilt it around three rooms that work all the time. White-oak floor with a black wash, hand-applied plaster, oxidized brass left to age, and a single piece of travertine in the kitchen. Less, but every choice deliberate.

The 1840 frame was sound. The interior had been thinned out by decades of small renovations. We took the rooms back to where the architecture wanted them, restored the heart pine floors, kept the original chimney pieces, and cut a single new door between the kitchen and the back garden. Limewash kitchen, painted tongue-and-groove in a soft weathered green-blue, and antique furniture sourced over eight months from upstate dealers.

A house at altitude that should have woken up the moment it snowed. The previous interior was builder beige and overhead light, indistinguishable from a thousand others. We rebuilt around the wood-burner, ran a single long sofa down a reclaimed-beam wall, and stripped the kitchen back to a black walnut bench with no upper cabinets. A house that holds twelve for dinner and two on a quiet morning.

A 1790 single-house south of Broad, in the family for three generations. The brief was straightforward. Make it work for the children. Do not make it look new. We restored the heart pine, kept the original chimney pieces, and rebuilt the back staircase on the original line. One painted tongue-and-groove wall in a soft 1930s blue-green that the family chose from an old shutter. The porch was left unchanged.

A 1980s California ranch with popcorn ceilings and aluminum patio doors. The brief was the apartment in Genoa the family had spent fifteen years in. Courtyard at the center, every room one door from it, breakfast outside whenever the weather allowed. We worked with the existing footprint and re-cut the openings between the kitchen, living room, and courtyard so all three rooms read as one in summer. A single sliding glass wall now does the work that two walls used to.

A small second home for a family that lives restrained in New York. Here was the place to do the opposite. We kept the architecture simple and gave each room one warm gesture. Soft coral in the main room, picked up from the hibiscus along the courtyard wall. Deep terracotta in the dining alcove. Sea green in one bedroom. Cane and rattan from the 1960s, sourced over a long weekend in Miami. Paper lighting throughout.

A 9,800 square foot manor for three generations under one roof. The brief asked for a house large enough to hold them all and small enough that they would still find each other. We planned around three quiet centers, a grandparents' wing with its own garden door, a kitchen-and-table middle floor, and an upper floor that belongs to the children. Painted millwork, dark stained oak, navy felt-lined library. The dining room is the only room with no overhead light at all.

An 1880 brownstone, four apartments since the 1970s, returned to a single-family home. The owners took the building on with a long view. We are restoring the parlor floor in full, the original plaster ceilings, the chimney pieces, the pocket doors. Below ground the rebuild is more substantial. A new kitchen with a garden door, a study, and a quiet utility plan that will keep the upper floors clean. Install scheduled for late 2026.