#brooklyn-renovation

#brooklyn-renovation

"I hadn't even seen the inside just like you, but I just felt like one person, DJ equipment, had to fit in there somehow. We knew it could be Pandora's box in there."

"Rather than a traditional theatre, we are creating a garden of earthly delights. Empyrean is a place of ecstasy, artistry and real interpersonal connection. When the curtain falls, the night has just begun."

"The landlord did not pay attention to this house whatsoever. We didn't even know we had a landlord."

How buildings are designed impacts people's lives every day. If every day you're living in a space where you can't use your home, that gnaws away at you.

Our first step was coming up with a floor plan based on our clients' lifestyle. We saw that we could create a guest room/den in the front and a generous primary suite and nursery in the back, with two full bathrooms in the middle within the same footprint where there had been one large central bath.

The days appear numbered for the striking butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene's South Oxford Street, with developers applying to raze the attractive wood structure and replace it with a five-story apartment building.