The Insider: Color, New Kitchen Polish Bed Stuy Townhouse

A new kitchen, bathrooms and carefully thoughtful paint colors polish a detailed mansion.

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Homeowners who love color often look for Sarah Jacoby’s productive Long Island City Architecture and design agency For his fearless use of lively shades. The new owners of a Bow front Row House in the early 20th century-Lege Nesters who think ahead about the welcome of a new generation “came to us because of color, and because they knew that I would not want to harden everything,” said Jacoby.

Jacoby leaned in paint as a strategy, partly for reasons of economics. “It was a beautiful house with incredible details, but it was not in excellent condition and it was quite dark,” she remembered. In many of the rooms, the wood covering and the paneling had already been painted by, just like the decorative plaster. “We were looking for a way to keep the detail that does not entail the labor and costs of stripping and restoration, so we started to color saturated paint to make it feel brighter and more loved.”

The existing layout “worked a bit,” said the architect. “Not much wall had been moved.” But Jacoby added Central Air, upgrade the electrical system, the stairs that leads to the garden level again, re -finished the floors and created a completely new kitchen, together with two new top baths and a new ladies’ toilet that is hidden under the stairs at the Salon level.

The homeowners were so serious about finding exactly the right interior paints, they called in a consultant from Farrow & Ball. “That was very useful,” said Jacoby, although they eventually also used colors from other companies. “Because at the same time you see the front salon, the middle room and the dining room, we had to think of colors that were copacetically without feeling rainbow-y.”

The limestone ride house was purchased in excellent external condition, with usable windows.

Jacoby’s customers “always knew they wanted a blue -green palette,” she said. Compatible tones smooth transitions from room to room on the salon floor. “It was hard to get the colors just right. It is not a clear house and you don’t want to pretend it is.”

The walls in the front salon are painted Cromarty from Farrow & Ball, a soft green-gray, the ceiling Swiss coffee from Benjamin Moore and the wood finishing card Green by Farrow & Ball, all colors that are repeated elsewhere throughout the house.

The stairs in the public hall leads to a rental unit on the top floor. Jacoby placed a new women’s toilet in what a small cupboard had been under the stairs.

All furniture, including antiques passed on by family members, were from the homeowners.

The wall panels of the middle room continues the map space green of Farrow & Ball, while the dark stair rails and Mantels Studio -Groen are from the same company. The broad plaster was in good condition, although they were painted gold. Now they are the same Swiss coffee as the walls and the ceiling.

The panels and trim of the dining room are Newburg Green by Benjamin Moore, a historic deep green blue.

The kitchen walls and trim have been painted in the Plaster of Farrow & Ball, with a Chantilly side of Benjamin Moore. A new enlarged window overlooks a beautiful back garden.

Carrara Marble is at the top of the counters and forms a backsplash for semi-Custom painted wooden cabinets ordered partially assembled from the cupboard joint in Lancaster County, Pa.

Original stained glass windows distinguish the upper floor, painted Swiss coffee from Benjamin Moore, with plinth, trim and doors of French Gray from Farrow & Ball.

Pink soil, a dusty blush pink, by Farrow & Ball the walls, ceiling and trim of the primary bedroom covers, while the fireplace is dysteriously dyed, a deep navy, by Benjamin Moore.

Jacoby divided a large bath in two on the second floor and stealed a little space from the primary bedroom to make the primary bath more generous.

The glass shower window is illuminated by a light axle that extends from the roof through the apartment on the floor above it.

Pattern floors in both baths came from Daltile.

The children’s pool is “simple”, as Jacoby said it, with a white metro tile, a deep bathtub and a pedestal gest.

A rear staircase from the kitchen to a ground level room was “scary and uncomfortable,” said Jacoby. She rebuilt it with new red oaks, together with a new door that leads to the back garden. The space, now cheerfully painted yellow with new built-in ins and a linoleum floor, is used for pantry storage and laundry.

[Photos by Ty Cole]

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