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HOMES Brooklyn Brownstone
and lost their beautiful details, this one
was pre!y much intact.’ Walking in to
what Americans call ‘the parlour
"oor’ (the hallway level), Marysia was
bowled over by the light and height
of the living room, with its "oor-to-
ceiling windows, decorative parquet
"oor and two marble #replaces, one
in the front and one in the back. The
house also retained its ceiling
mouldings, original staircase and
banisters, plus further #replaces and
original "ooring throughout. ‘It was
grand and lovely,’ says Marysia – and
also crying out to be #lled with art
and antiques.
The couple moved in in February
2000. The house needed to be re-wired
A diptych by Sidney and, to their horror, they discovered
Mang’ong’o hangs on
the wall in the master that the two-storey extension at the
bedroom. The bedside back – which houses the kitchen and
tables are vintage the basement "at’s living room – had
G Plan; on the floor is been built without foundations,
a Beni Ourain rug from meaning a large portion of the budget
Essaouira, Morocco. was sunk into remedying that. They
The bedcover is a cotton lived in their home in a makeshi$
kente cloth from Africa. state for a couple of years then, once
ABOVE RIGHT The the "at was let and they had a bit more
octagonal etched mirror income, they put in a new kitchen.
hanging above the
fireplace was inherited. For the decorating, Marysia chose
white throughout. ‘I like the freshness
of white,’ she says. ‘I love colour
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