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How Brooklynites of the Past Decorated Their Houses
These Brownstoner histories of interior design offer the architecturally curious information about everything from fretwork to sleeping porches.
Tips to Start the New Year Organized
The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to assess your surroundings and get organized.
Brownstoner’s Top 10 Insiders of 2025
Each week Brownstoner columnist Cara Greenberg provides an inspirational look at interior design and renovation in homes across Brooklyn.
The Insider: All-Out Carroll Gardens Reno Creates Home to Last Generations
The scope of work included restoring the front and rear facades and replacing the rear wall with glass on the parlor and garden levels.
Renovated Gerritsen Beach Library Reopens
The renovation of the 10,000-square-foot facility finished six months ahead of schedule and $300,000 below budget.
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Lovely home. I am curious about people's thinking when the designate a third floor apartment as a future space for grandparents. Wouldn't it be better to put that use on a ground floor?
The Insider: Greenpoint Townhouse Flexes to Evolve With Growing FamilyIf this is the house i think it my wife and I lived there from 1970–1972. It was then a very much un-renovated three family. We had the garden apartment. It was our first apartment which my mother described, ungenerously, as “ that filthy basement slum”.
The Insider: History and Modernity Live Side by Side in South Slope RenoNice article. Is this the whole apartment? Of so where is the bedroom?
The Insider: Bed Stuy Garden Floor Reno Makes Aging in Place Stylish and SocialThose top 2 especially are some of my favorite Insiders of all time. I’m not usually a huge fan of painted woodwork but the colors in that limestone townhouse work so well
Brownstoner’s Top 10 Insiders of 2025