In the undertaking of Scarlett Shao and Joseph Casper’s 1930s wooden row house remodel in Brooklyn, the couple worked with not one firm but three: Hatched, a Brooklyn-based design-build firm, Matt Ransom of Overhead Architecture, and designers Studio Oink out of Leipzig, Germany. The result is an overwhelming success of modern design, inclusive of an excavated basement transformed into a bright open kitchen rendered in birch plywood and accented with light and pastel color. Here we decode the essential elements to recreate the look.
Above: The kitchen is anchored with polished concrete floors, a wall of paneled storage in Finnish birch plywood sourced from Koskisen overhead, and custom kitchen cabinets and an island. The cabinets are made of birch plywood lightened with a natural bleaching agent by GDR (Good Dog Rosie), the millwork arm of Hatchet’s team. Photograph by Matthew Williams courtesy of Studio Oink from An International Affair: Studio Oink Collaborate with a NY Design Team on a Young Family’s Brooklyn Townhouse.
Above: The kitchen faucet is the Nivito RH-330 Faucet in Matte White; $620. Above: The track lighting installed in the kitchen ceiling is the Dot Sistema Light by Davide Groppi in matte white. Above: The hanging lamp layered with the track lighting is the Muller Van Severen Neon Light, a static garland of glass available in white (shown), yellow, and pink neon.
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