#historic-renovation

#historic-renovation

"Just sitting by the window, sipping my coffee in the morning and overlooking the horse pastures makes me happy,"

In the heart of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a 19th-century carriage house and stable have been given a second life-one that blends history, design, and a little bit of magic. Once rundown and divided into four apartments, this 4,000-square-foot live/work compound was transformed over 18 months by its architect owners, Colin Faber and Leni Niemegeers-Faber, into a family home that feels both modern and timeless.

I'm glad that instead of building something brand new which it could have done pretty much anywhere Hillbrook decided to bring its students to downtown San Jose and specifically to two historic but vacant buildings near St. James Park that required millions of dollars of renovation. That was a very intentional decision to have a school in downtown San Jose and have this idea of the city as a classroom, Head of School Mark Silver said.

Watson and Rauzy discovered their townhouse was once the headquarters for a basket business, making Vallabrègues the biggest basket producer in France due to its palm and willow trees.

"They were looking for a big corner lot and an original house that had some value they could salvage," Linder explains.