We magnified the small footprint of this Carroll Gardens row house by merging it with the outdoors. To blur the boundary to the garden, we traded out the rear wall of the house for a glass storefront.
Then we amplified the effect by extending the same bluestone flooring and stucco walls inside and out. As a result, the little garden became an outdoor room, while the interior living area stretched into the green space.
Inside, a narrow stair spreads to palatial width as it lands in the living room. And a flush teak shower floor recalls a beach house.
A wall of colored glass rondels diffuses daylight into the stair. A custom ship ladder to the roof flanks a new skylight. And daylight ripples down a stone wall, raising a tiny meditation room to the sublime.
PROJECT INFO
Location: Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
Size: 2500 s.f.
Year Completed: 2007
General Contractor: Hamilton Renovation
Structural Engineer: Angelos Georgopoulos, PC
Expediter: Scott Schnall, P.E.
Photographer: Catherine Tighe