Adrienne Totoro’s Brooklyn Brownstone Artfully Updated by Bangia Agostinho
This week we’re revisiting our favorite tales from 2024, like this one:
At Remodelista we love performing as a design courting service. Proper right here’s a present NYC occasion:
“We found Anshu and Bill all through the depths of Covid by way of a Remodelista submit,” Adrienne Totoro tells us of Anshu Bangia and Bill Agostinho, the couple who collectively run Bangia Agostinho Construction. “We had been drawn to their old-world-yet-modern aesthetic—every mission of theirs feels up to date with out shedding the integrity of the distinctive development.”
Adrienne is an interiors advertising and marketing 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 strategy with vegetation. She’s from Oklahoma, he grew up in Wales, and they also acquired right here to the design desk with various ideas (plus paintings, 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 various unglamorous work required—”the underlying class and proportions had been seen nevertheless your full dwelling required upgrading,” says Anshu. And, certain, there was various extreme hopes for what may probably be.
“What struck us from our preliminary phone dialog was their description of the mission not as a listing of renovation purposes and logistics, nevertheless how they wanted to actually really feel inside the space,” says Anshu. “Stefan and I every grew up in places that are quieter, a lot much less frenzied than city we keep in, and we knew a key parameter may be making a base that is grounding and comforting for us and our family and associates,” says Adrienne. Take a look at the outcomes of this meeting of creative minds.
Pictures by Pia Ulin, styling by Hilary Robertson besides well-known, courtesy of Bangia Agostinho Construction.
Above: The current two-story once more extension had intensive water harm and black mildew and required rebuilding. “It had disproportionate arched French doorways that had been totally alien to the distinctive,” says Anshu. “We labored intently with the Landmarks Preservation Payment and included brick particulars into the model new assemble that are regular with the sister adjoining properties.” The house home windows are by Marvin.
