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Parlor floor kitchen

Parlor floor kitchen

The property is comprised of a succession of buildings that extend from the street-facing entrance. The 1,215-square-foot main house is the last of the three.

While the house’s original pine is richly colored and textured, a number of structural posts rendered the kitchen difficult to furnish with modern fixtures. A newly-added black beam, which extends outward into the dining room, allowed for the posts’ removal.

A new staircase turns a corner at the large stone chimney, an element of the original house that the designers were careful to preserve.

The kitchen is a long sleek space.

In the upper-level bathroom, tiles painstakingly fired by DeSimio cover the walls and ceiling.

For their new kitchen, Michaël Verheyden and Saartje Vereecke incorporated a Smeg cooktop, oven, and range hood, stainless steel cabinets from Habitat, and personal accessories like a prototype goblet.

That heat is then transferred to the old stone walls underneath. From there, the stone slowly radiates the warmth into the interior, keeping it around 70°F even as night temperatures drop to 25°F. A wood-burning stove compensates for cloudy days. (For the thermally-savvy, the polycarbonate has a U value of 1.1 W/m²K).

Egg chairs by Arne Jacobsen overlook the living and dining rooms on the first floor. When it came to choosing bold wall hues for the home – like the Benjamin Moore lime green shade on the loft’s sliding doors – Bloomberg remembers the discussion she had with the owners: “We said, ‘If we’re going to do color, then let’s do color.’”

Harlem homeowner and architect Bill Ryall installed various vertical elements to his loftlike home. Photots by: Jake Stangel

Each unit features a customizable kitchen with IKEA products and a slate bathroom. The interior is lined with bamboo.

The white tent by SO-IL has an impressive presence from above. Frieze New York, 2012. Photograph by Iwan Baan. Courtesy of Iwan Baan/ Frieze.