"The staircase was my favorite part," Bischoff says. "We changed the orientation—it used to come straight up form the front. It was a lot of fun to understand how that would make the house function a little differently by circulating through the middle instead of front-to-back, front-to-back." Photo 47 of 51 in City Modern Home Tours: Brooklyn

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"The staircase was my favorite part," Bischoff says. "We changed the orientation—it used to come straight up form the front. It was a lot of fun to understand how that would make the house function a little differently by circulating through the middle instead of front-to-back, front-to-back."