Adrienne Totoro’s Brooklyn Brownstone Artfully Updated by Bangia Agostinho
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“We found Anshu and Bill all through the depths of Covid via a Remodelista publish,” Adrienne Totoro tells us of Anshu Bangia and Bill Agostinho, the couple who collectively run Bangia Agostinho Construction. “We’ve got been drawn to their old-world-yet-modern aesthetic—every enterprise of theirs feels modern with out dropping the integrity of the distinctive development.”
Adrienne is an interiors advisor and a specialist in retailer visualization and branding (she beforehand headed Chloe’s seen and retailer planning division); her husband, Stefan, works in impression investing and has a way with vegetation. She’s from Oklahoma, he grew up in Wales, and they also acquired right here to the design desk with a complete lot of ideas (plus art work, furnishings, family relics, and potted vegetation). Anshu and Bill joined them within the dwelling hunt that led to their Brooklyn Italianate brownstone subsequent to Fort Greene park. Not surprisingly, there was a complete lot of unglamorous work required—”the underlying class and proportions have been seen nonetheless the entire dwelling required upgrading,” says Anshu. And, positive, there was a complete lot of extreme hopes for what might very nicely be.
“What struck us from our preliminary cellphone dialog was their description of the enterprise not as a list of renovation purposes and logistics, nonetheless how they wished to actually really feel inside the home,” says Anshu. “Stefan and I every grew up in areas that are quieter, a lot much less frenzied than the city we dwell in, and we knew a key parameter will be making a base that is grounding and comforting for us and our family and buddies,” says Adrienne. Take a look at the outcomes of this meeting of creative minds.
Footage by Pia Ulin, styling by Hilary Robertson besides well-known, courtesy of Bangia Agostinho Construction.
Above: The prevailing two-story once more extension had intensive water harm and black mould and required rebuilding. “It had disproportionate arched French doorways which have been totally alien to the distinctive,” says Anshu. “We labored rigorously with the Landmarks Preservation Price and included brick particulars into the model new assemble that are regular with the sister adjoining houses.” The house home windows are by Marvin.
