Brooklyn Modern #2: Gut Renovated in Boerum Hill
[nggallery id=”26414″ template=galleryview] This week, we’re looking at homes featured in Brooklyn Modern by Diana Lind, with photographs by Yoko Inoue. Here’s Diana’s installment #2: From the outside, Jordan Parnass’s Boerum Hill townhouse looks like almost any other. Inside, he gut-renovated the dilapidated building by keeping only a few small details like a marble mantelpiece…
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This week, we’re looking at homes featured in Brooklyn Modern by Diana Lind, with photographs by Yoko Inoue. Here’s Diana’s installment #2:
From the outside, Jordan Parnass’s Boerum Hill townhouse looks like almost any other. Inside, he gut-renovated the dilapidated building by keeping only a few small details like a marble mantelpiece and chucking everything else. With about 2,000 square feet to work with, he opened each floor to the next, allowing light to flow through from the third floor’s ceiling to the basement which serves as an airy office for his wife. The result is an intensely customized house — from site-specific artworks made by friends to a built-in spice rack for his wife — that perfectly suits his family.
sure it’s a little nitpicky. overall it’s a very nice design.
lol…yes TD…that is odd…the one they bought is the one to hang from the ceiling…I wonder why they didnt get the one for the wall.
However, I bet they altered it to vent through the back…but it looks funny.
i cant tell the difference between the stove, sink?, and what is the other thing? a dishwasher?! it is nice tho. nice clean look. some of you people are so nitpicky hahahah
*rob*
Yes, exactly. you don’t need an exhaust pipe if it’s not exhausting to the outside.
They should have switched the arrangement of things on that wall. The stove should be below an area with cabinets and something else should be where the stove currently is.
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a 16 foot drop onto a concrete floor isn’t one of them.
oops i guess i missed that part. hahaha sorry.
*rob*
LOL Rob-
Come on, you can’t tell me that you didn’t do reckless things as a kid. My nephews come over to my mom’s house and no matter how many times we say don’t do this or that they can’t help competing to see who can jump from the highest part of the stair or slide from the top of the step to the bottom. My daughter doesn’t usually do anything crazy until she is under the influence of her cousins. There is nothing stronger than the mob behaviour of a group of kids between 4 and 9.
I still think it is a beautiful house and I wouldn’t say no if someone was giving it to me. But I am paranoid that way, I’ll just add padding to all the open spaces.
TD –
What is rediculos about it? are you referring to the fact that it looks like it should be hung from a ceiling but is not?
Overall this is much better than that modern brownstone renovation that was featured in the Times a couple weeks ago.
This place is nice but I have problems with the kitchen. The glossy flat cabinets are such a fad. In fact, they are already a little dated. I do like the deep red color though. Stainless steel back splash is a little too much for me.
But the biggest problem is that stove hood? WTF!?!? Did anyone else notice that thing? It’s completely ridiculous.
Hats off to the architect. Those little houses can be dark and cramped inside, but the light and flow to this one are spectacular. And unlike much modern design, this house seems imminently livable.
As the parent of two children, I can tell you that your own children learn pretty quickly to navigate the hazards of their home. Mine don’t throw stuff down the central shaft, jump off the top bunk, or try to slide or swing down the spiral staircase. But visiting kids do. So, if you have a house like that, you have to lay down the law for visiting children and police them.