Merged Apartment in Crown Heights

Brooklyn, NY

Status: Completed 2024

Type: Residence

A recently merged apartment in crown heights offered generous square footage, but felt undefined and misaligned with the owners’ daily routine. A full renovation reconfigured a three-bedroom apartment through a series of focused interventions and carefully integrated millwork. A shared minimalist approach lifts the interior into a warmer, more functional home, shaped by the lifestyle of a newly expecting couple.

Volumetric compositions of wood, terrazzo, and color foster intimacy while maintaining visual continuity throughout the space.

Approached from a front patio via open-air circulation, the kitchen sets the tone upon arrival. Extending a beloved ceramic art series, a wall-mounted sideboard transforms a hard-edged entry into a textured welcome. A new island becomes a communal centerpiece, while expanding prep area.

A nesting butcher block was designed to lift away for serving, and adds flexibility and layered functionality.

In the living room, the focus shifts to an oversized corner where an entertainment console and home bar interlock as a pair. This move reorganizes the widely proportioned room into zones that support and showcase the homeowners’ collections of books, records, and wine.

By borrowing space from the bedroom, the primary bathroom gains valuable counter space. The upgraded double-vanity niche anchors the room in handmade concrete tiles and mint terrazzo. An oak wardrobe stacks around the volume on the bedroom side.

Terrazzo is introduced into the guest bathroom to frame the bathtub against a fluted blue ceramic backdrop.

A vertical motif recurs throughout the apartment in millwork screens, fluted tile, and acoustic slat wall panels.

Developed in collaboration with brooklyn-based KLN Studio, the bespoke millwork resolves spatial inefficiencies while unifying the home—shaping a domestic environment that balances function with spatial clarity and warmth.