nune Quiet Elegant Townhouse in Brooklyn, Belgium

The latest project from the London and New York design team nune: a quiet and elegant terraced villa in Brooklyn, Belgium. Typical New York townhouses have an average width of about 6 meters, so when a 9-meter-wide double-sided Brooklyn brownstone villa project lands on their desks, one can imagine the joy of design studio nune. Founder Sheena Murphy and partner Tor Sauder describe it as a very rare collaboration where interior designers teamed up with local architect (and former renovator) Baxt Ingui to modify the layout of the house to make the 1899 townhouse more suitable for growing families living there.

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According to the customer's love for the smallest Belgian farmhouse, the frame of the existing staircase was retained and kept in place, now covered with polished plaster and a rounded balustrade. This subtle curve recurs throughout the family in small and powerful structural elements, including custom kitchen cabinets and Nakajima, living room hallways, and built-in upstairs dressing tables. The neutral interior is decorated in black, with smaller architectural details such as faucets and door hardware most prominent.

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Sheena describes every space in the home as “classic and quiet,” emphasizing storage, whether by custom built-in fine carpentry or built-in wall cabinets. “We make the most of storage space to make sure the whole house is easy to keep and aesthetically clean,” Sheena says. Selected palettes of marble, limestone, oak, walnut, wool and linen restore this “clean” beauty. In addition to a range of modern lights, Sheena says the palette is to “give your eyes a rest as you walk through the house.”

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