Located within the Fort Greene Historical District, the Carlton Avenue project is a unique renovation and conversionof an existing four-story, four-family Brooklyn brownstone into a residence for a young family.Combining the upper three apartments into an owner's triplex, the design uncovers the once public stairway for it and together with a custom-designed millwork guides you from the front entrance and angles through the parlorfloor into the kitchen to an angled terrace to access the garden. The insertion of this main element provides aspatial mark and backdrop, opening up the prior constricted spaces. The upper levels were reconfigured to offermore light and less divisions and more direct connection between the floors through the exposure of the previouslyenclosed stairs.