Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Park Slope Townhouse Gets a Blue Hued Makeover

The Insider: Blue Hues Prevail in Decor of Newly Renovated Park Slope Townhouse

When interior designer Alicia Hassen of Brooklinteriors got involved with the renovation of a landmarked, detail-laden limestone right off Prospect Park, permits had been filed and the cellar was being dug out for two more feet of ceiling height, adding extra usable space to the three-story building.

From that point on, Hassen steered every design decision, from the custom kitchen’s layout and materials palette, to the design of built-in desks and daybeds, to the treatment of the house’s intact woodwork and what to do with two existing crystal chandeliers (keep them, of course).

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The Insider: Bed Stuy Townhouse Emerges From Gut Reno With Pared-Back, Contemporary Style

No sooner did Nathan Cuttle’s clients, an art professor and a sound engineer with a young child, close on their three-story Neo-Grec brick row house than they procured a demolition permit. “They wanted to get started,” said Cuttle, founder and principal designer of Brooklyn-based Studio Nato, which masterminded the gut renovation, architectural redesign and new furnishings that followed.

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Prewar One-Bedroom With Huge Terrace in Brooklyn Heights’ St. George Tower Wants $875K

The most remarkable feature of this well-laid-out one-bedroom in the former St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights is a terrace that’s bigger than the apartment. The unit, which appears to be in move-in condition, has potential to be a showstopper with a few style tweaks.

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A 1920s Bay Ridge Row House on an ‘Old English’ Terrace and Three More to See, Starting at $830K

Our picks for open houses to see last weekend were found in Bed Stuy, Bay Ridge and Marine Park. They range in price from $830,000 to $2.195 million.

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A Bed Stuy Homeowner Makes a Plasterwork Palace Her Own

Shelley Victory gestured into the front parlor of her limestone townhouse, whose walls and ceilings are covered with elaborate plaster relief decoration in varying states of repair, from nil to perfection. “Look at this plasterwork!” she exclaimed. “Isn’t it obnoxious?”

She doesn’t mean obnoxious in a pejorative sense, of course. It’s Victory’s synonym for fabulous, over-the-top, beyond belief. And indeed it is.

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