This budget-friendly renovation is minimalism at its most inviting
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- 28 Oct 2022
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Wanting to live inside an acorn is a potentially, ahem, nutty directive to supply one’s designer. But that’s exactly what tattoo artist Mars Hobrecker brought to architect Michael Yarinsky when he and his wife, the writer and editor Coco Romack, began renovations on their two-bedroom apartment near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
Yarinsky, who founded the local firm Office of Tangible Space with Kelley Perumbeti, decided to “make something that was a nod to the ask, but new and different and them.” Yarinsky’s starting point was not a hideaway but a conceit that marries Hobrecker’s aesthetic preferences with the sociable pace of his and Romack’s lives: a stage. First up in the spotlight? Romack’s beloved wardrobe. Yarinsky transformed a formerly walled-off foyer into a hallway (“a catwalk, darling!” Romack says) to house the apartment’s primary closet, made discrete with floor-to-ceiling walnut-slat doors.
Opposite the closet, a large mirror by Fredericia, also in walnut, anchors the entry, while a sculptural coatrack from Ferm Living is prime real estate for assorted leashes for the couple’s dachshunds, Piet and Panko. But the biggest reconfiguration was proposed by Yarinsky early on in the renovation process: taking down the wall between the living area and kitchen and building a dining nook into the corner of the open living space. Read More...
