Interiors: Modernizing a Row House in the Slope
[nggallery id=”26489″ template=galleryview] The folks from Coburn Architecture, based in Dumbo, have taken on the task of updating, and adding to, a row house in Park Slope. If you have interior projects large or small, amateur or professional you’d like to share, please contact us. This mid 19th century row house on a quiet street…
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The folks from Coburn Architecture, based in Dumbo, have taken on the task of updating, and adding to, a row house in Park Slope. If you have interior projects large or small, amateur or professional you’d like to share, please contact us.
This mid 19th century row house on a quiet street in Park Slope was in relatively poor condition when purchased by the client. The house next door had burned down many years before, leaving the lot vacant and overgrown, and the new owners wanted to build a structure in its place that would connect to the existing house.
The client’s ambitious program for the new structure required a new master suite with a spacious bath and dressing room, a dining room, a garage with a driveway (a luxury for city dwellers), and some outdoor living space. To avoid having to move to temporary quarters, the client elected to complete the project in two architectural phases, followed by an interior design phase.
UPDATE: Brendan Coburn just dropped us a note to clear up a couple of things: 1) The house is only a combined 3,400 square feet, as the addition is just two stories high; 2) The construction and renovation took place in four phases over eight years.
Share my personal space with you all, you must be kidding! I don’t know what kind of freak shares anything personal on the web! Suffice it to say, my space is actually personal–unlike the highly designed and impersonal decor in this house. The things in my house all speak to some part of myself and my life–as decor should.
“Are we going to start hating on rich people now? Or on people that renovate and decorate?”
just rich people that renovate and decorate 😉
You’re a brave man Dave. The only pics of my home I was willing to share were before we took ownership from the RE listing!
This is “modernizing” a rowhouse? The decor looks like a bed & breakfast in Ohio.
Frankly, at some point money DOES become an object and you have to decorate somehow right? Let’s face it not everything in my home (or I suspect most others) is exactly I’d like it but until I hit the lotto I’m going to have to live with some fine antiques mixed in with reproductions, some hand me downs from the folks and yes, brace yourselves, even some IKEA. I’d love to see the homes of those who are being so critical.
BRG, Sorry, they work when I try them so I don’t know. Frankly, it wasn’t that great anyways. Even the owners of these homes aren’t willing to sell right now. The bombs are getting harder to find.
I sent lisa pics of my yard and waiting to feel all the love when she posts them. After that I’ll send pics of the interior renovation and all my furniture to feel even more of the love coming from fellow brownstoners!!!
Shill…please post pictures of your space!
Shillstoner — show us what you like! We’ll give you our opinion.
Well, if you don’t think this house’s decor is tacky, then that just says something about your style. The whole thing exudes trying too hard to show how rich and tasteful I am–which is the essence of tackiness.