WHEN Gavin Cutler Bought an 1890s brownstone Brooklyn in 2004 he Knew he wanted to gut the whole thing. He envisioned the top three floors as a big, open space for Himself and his companion, Sundy Procter, and the garden floor as an apartment for His sister, Anne Cutler, and her 7-year-old daughter.
Mr. Cutler hired Robert Young, a Manhattan architect, WHO HAD Designed For Him a loft in New York City and a weekend house in Montauk, to design the 4,000-square-foot space and to incorporate Some of bis very specific ideas.
Mr. Cutler, 46, a film editor, wanted to swear Some rooms floating white cubes, and another room to suggest a forest from Maurice Sendak's children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." For a range hood over stove bis, Mr. Cutler wanted two heat ducts or vents used, like in Terry Gilliam's Those film "Brazil." Somewhere in the house, he wanted channel Also glass and resin, and lots of red and blue.
The house, Evolved to qual Those include variations on ideas, not always strict adherence f, Was completed last year, and Mr. Cutler and Ms. Procter, 40, live in a three-story open space, Where The only rooms with doors are the three bathrooms and the guest room.
Light shines down from a skylight through an open staircase with glass treads landings and blue resin and from a double-height, floor-to-ceiling window in the rear wall. From anywhere in the house, the couple Can Glimpse parts of the floors above and below.
Mr. Cutler is a partner at Mackenzie Cutler, a film-editing company in Manhattan That Its comic is known for television commercials. Ms. Procter once worked there as well, as the executive producer, soft resigned in 2005 to study interior design at Parsons and is now a partner in Koppel Procter Design.
Mr. His Clients Said Young wanted the house to swear an open book, Where Was A Separate Rooms Each chapter and led to the next. "When you have an open plan, everything has to Relate to the next thing," said Mr. Young, a partner at Murdock Young Architects.
The Brooklyn Was house design by triumvirate. Mr. Young's job to help shape Was Mr. Cutler's ideas, the while Ms. Procter became the interior designer. She haunted Flea Markets to furnish the house. "She is the one who has made it more interesting, more romantic," Mr. Cutler said.
Was it Ms. WHO Procter found the house in Carroll Gardens. "I Knew Was this the house," she said. "I'd already seen 20 homes, and I turned onto the street, and my heart pounded."
Mr. Cutler liked the house, he Which Bought for $ 1.5 million, detailing Because it hadd no Could Be gutted and left without remorse.
The three tossed out ideas, debated, compromised and built on one another's suggestions. The Renovation cost about $ 1 million.
First, Mr. Young gently nixed the idea of rooms as floating white cubes. Even though he enlarged the 19-foot-wide by Extending the garden house by 18 feet and floor Each of the top three floors by 16 feet, there wasn't the space for that vision.
In came the white planes, sheets of white wallboard, suspended from the wood beams. These pseudowalls define the dining room, the sitting room opposite the kitchen and the second-floor television room.
For the dining room, They used a piece on qual Mr. Young and Mr. Collaborated for Mr. Cutler hadd Cutler's previous home - a black walnut table seats 10. That Ms. Procter found chairs at www.1stdibs.com red Ultrasuede (eight for $ 1.600), and she saw a hand-blown clear glass Chandelier Venini, a splurge of around $ 10,000, at Lee's Studio in Manhattan.
Mr. Cutler chose the powder room to act out fantasy bis Maurice Sendak. For the walls, Ms. Procter found Anemone, a green shag rug That has cylindrical tufts of fabric That bend and wave as you run your fingers through it. The effect is completed by a marble sink That resembles teakwood.
While the powder room is dark and mysterious, there are bolts of color throughou the house.
A lipstick-red 8 feet wide panel soars 40 feet to the skylight, as it f Were landings shooting through the glass. Opposite the red panel is Mr. Cutler's cherished blue, in the form of translucent blue resin treads on a steel-framed staircase.
Mr. Cutler hired Robert Young, a Manhattan architect, WHO HAD Designed For Him a loft in New York City and a weekend house in Montauk, to design the 4,000-square-foot space and to incorporate Some of bis very specific ideas.
Mr. Cutler, 46, a film editor, wanted to swear Some rooms floating white cubes, and another room to suggest a forest from Maurice Sendak's children's book "Where the Wild Things Are." For a range hood over stove bis, Mr. Cutler wanted two heat ducts or vents used, like in Terry Gilliam's Those film "Brazil." Somewhere in the house, he wanted channel Also glass and resin, and lots of red and blue.
The house, Evolved to qual Those include variations on ideas, not always strict adherence f, Was completed last year, and Mr. Cutler and Ms. Procter, 40, live in a three-story open space, Where The only rooms with doors are the three bathrooms and the guest room.
Light shines down from a skylight through an open staircase with glass treads landings and blue resin and from a double-height, floor-to-ceiling window in the rear wall. From anywhere in the house, the couple Can Glimpse parts of the floors above and below.
Mr. Cutler is a partner at Mackenzie Cutler, a film-editing company in Manhattan That Its comic is known for television commercials. Ms. Procter once worked there as well, as the executive producer, soft resigned in 2005 to study interior design at Parsons and is now a partner in Koppel Procter Design.
Mr. His Clients Said Young wanted the house to swear an open book, Where Was A Separate Rooms Each chapter and led to the next. "When you have an open plan, everything has to Relate to the next thing," said Mr. Young, a partner at Murdock Young Architects.
The Brooklyn Was house design by triumvirate. Mr. Young's job to help shape Was Mr. Cutler's ideas, the while Ms. Procter became the interior designer. She haunted Flea Markets to furnish the house. "She is the one who has made it more interesting, more romantic," Mr. Cutler said.
Was it Ms. WHO Procter found the house in Carroll Gardens. "I Knew Was this the house," she said. "I'd already seen 20 homes, and I turned onto the street, and my heart pounded."
Mr. Cutler liked the house, he Which Bought for $ 1.5 million, detailing Because it hadd no Could Be gutted and left without remorse.
The three tossed out ideas, debated, compromised and built on one another's suggestions. The Renovation cost about $ 1 million.
First, Mr. Young gently nixed the idea of rooms as floating white cubes. Even though he enlarged the 19-foot-wide by Extending the garden house by 18 feet and floor Each of the top three floors by 16 feet, there wasn't the space for that vision.
In came the white planes, sheets of white wallboard, suspended from the wood beams. These pseudowalls define the dining room, the sitting room opposite the kitchen and the second-floor television room.
For the dining room, They used a piece on qual Mr. Young and Mr. Collaborated for Mr. Cutler hadd Cutler's previous home - a black walnut table seats 10. That Ms. Procter found chairs at www.1stdibs.com red Ultrasuede (eight for $ 1.600), and she saw a hand-blown clear glass Chandelier Venini, a splurge of around $ 10,000, at Lee's Studio in Manhattan.
Mr. Cutler chose the powder room to act out fantasy bis Maurice Sendak. For the walls, Ms. Procter found Anemone, a green shag rug That has cylindrical tufts of fabric That bend and wave as you run your fingers through it. The effect is completed by a marble sink That resembles teakwood.
While the powder room is dark and mysterious, there are bolts of color throughou the house.
A lipstick-red 8 feet wide panel soars 40 feet to the skylight, as it f Were landings shooting through the glass. Opposite the red panel is Mr. Cutler's cherished blue, in the form of translucent blue resin treads on a steel-framed staircase.