Thoughtful, livable interiors for the brownstones, townhouses, and prewar co-ops of Brooklyn Heights — designed by a studio that has worked inside the neighborhood's landmark district.
Brooklyn Heights is one of New York's first designated historic districts, and it shows in every block — rows of 19th-century brownstones and Italianate townhouses, garden-level entries, tall parlor-floor windows, and the quiet dignity of the Promenade at the edge of it all. It's a neighborhood where the architecture has already done a lot of the work: high ceilings, deep moldings, and rooms built to classical proportions.
Our approach here starts by listening to what the house already knows. Original details — plaster medallions, marble mantels, pocket doors — are rarely something to design around; they're the foundation to design with. Whether it's a full-floor brownstone renovation or a prewar co-op with a fraction of that scale, the goal is the same: rooms that feel like they always belonged, just quietly elevated.
Because Brooklyn Heights sits within a landmarked historic district, renovations here often come with real constraints — from what can change at a façade to how a parlor floor's original layout should be respected. We've designed inside those boundaries enough times to see them less as limits and more as guardrails: they push toward material honesty, restraint, and details that will still look right in another hundred years.
That experience shapes how we scope a Brooklyn Heights project from the first walk-through — where to preserve, where a sensitive update is possible, and how to bring in modern comfort (kitchens, baths, lighting, layouts that suit how people actually live now) without fighting the bones of the house.
In 2022, founder Daria Demin was selected to design a room in the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse, held inside a historic Columbia Heights townhouse — a rare honor among the neighborhood's own design community, and a project that put our work in direct conversation with the block's architecture. The room went on to be photographed and featured in Aspire Metro, Brownstoner, and Chairish.
It's the kind of project that only comes from knowing a neighborhood's buildings firsthand — and it remains one of the clearest examples of how we bring warmth and craft to a Brooklyn Heights interior.
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