Apartments

After: The firm used the steel to demarcate different areas in the new home. Glass-and-steel-framed walls now enclose the master bedroom, and an office nook with built-in storage is tucked off the primary circulation paths. The firm designed the custom bed platform; it’s white oak with a smoked finish.

The L-shaped central space has high ceilings and holds the dining room, living room, kitchen, and work area.

Architect Julian King’s creative approach to incorporating a bedroom without sacrificing natural light: creating a narrow mezzanine with undulating walls that act as both art and a link to the building's past as a silk warehouse.

Once the sun sets, the Clocktower Penthouse glows like a beautiful beacon of light.

For the dining area, Murdock called on local furniture designer Ohio Design to create a semi-custom white oak table. She added Eames chairs for a clean and crisp modern aesthetic. Matte black walls and appliance panels provide a moody juxtaposition with the brick and wooden elements. Storage solutions were also a key element of each room's design. "The client expressed a real desire to make a proper space for everything and no detail was overlooked in designing storage solutions," Murdock adds.

As a former librarian and true book lover, Williams liked the idea of storing her books in the living room. "At first, the built-in shelving we designed was more open, but the exposed books created too much visual clutter, so we added cabinet doors and kept a few open shelves to house a rotating display of our client's collection of quirky and artful artifacts," says Eng-Goetz.

Bjorndahl hoped for a great room that would feel “curated and orchestrated, much like a tailored suit.” To achieve this goal, the team used cabinetry from Elmwood Fine Cabinetry in New Haven for the kitchen, the living room, the office, and the master bath. The home’s first floor measures approximately 1,000 square feet. The dining area features a 60-inch round table from Design Within Reach and Eames molded plywood dining chairs from Workplace Resource.

All of the lights are equipped with dimming mechanisms, and they emit a honey-hued glow to create a sense of warmth.

Merlin Eayrs and Zoe Chan Eayrs with their daughter.

Living Room

Catch Chair by &Tradition, walnut bed and bedside table

For added flexibility, the designers have inserted a rotating table that can pivot outward to accommodate larger gatherings.

Living Level

Brandon and Amy set up different workstations in the living area.

The distressed bronze upper cabinets and floating steel elements play off of the original tin ceilings and exposed timber columns of this historic cast iron SoHo loft building.