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The 100-Mile Parlour-Floor Flat

A peek into a gorgeous New York apartment.

Our flat has its original mouldings, oversize windows, and cast-iron radiators, which drew us to the space. We painted the interiors entirely with Benjamin Moore’s zero-VOC Eco Spec in Atrium White, and finished the floors with Bona’s waterborne sanding sealer. The mid-century modern Thonet chairs are vintage.

I feel more connected to my possessions if I buy directly from makers and learn their story. The hand-thrown planter perched on a stoop-sale stool is by New York magazine editor and Renaissance man David Haskell, picked up at a pottery show. The landscape paintings flanking the fireplace are by artist Rob DuToit, a longtime family friend on Cape Cod, where I grew up.

When my husband, Josh, and I moved to Brooklyn Heights a few years ago, we were in search of an apartment to make our own – we didn’t want to rip up someone else’s perfectly functional remodel or buy into an impersonal apartment tower. After more than a year of searching, we were lucky to find a brownstone parlour-floor flat that hadn’t been updated in thirty years. Determined to source locally as much as possible, we modeled our renovation after the Slow Food movement and the “100-mile rule”, which challenges us to eat only foods produced within 100 miles (161 kilometres) of home.

Working with our friend Malachi Connolly, a New York/Cape Cod–based architect and longtime board member of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, we were able to sleuth almost all the new functional elements from New York craftspeople: a shelving unit from Atlas Industries of Newburgh; kitchen cabinetry from Pickett Furniture in Red Hook, Brooklyn; a steel lamp from Rhinebeck furniture maker Sawkille Co.

We scoured the city for vintage pieces to fill in the blanks, and visited salvage yards for fittings.

Remodelista editor-in-chief Julie Carlson shares how (and why) she and her husband, Remodelista CEO Josh Groves, furnished their apartment with designs sourced within a 100-mile (161-kilometre) radius of their neighbourhood.

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