How They Pulled It Off: A Custom-Built Foyer That Transforms an Uninviting Entryway
For a couple returning to the city, Dunham Robinson designed a bespoke built-in that adds depth and dimension to their new apartment.
For a couple returning to the city, Dunham Robinson designed a bespoke built-in that adds depth and dimension to their new apartment.
Welcome to How They Pulled It Off, where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality.
When the New Jersey suburbs have been your home for over two decades, a return to New York City can bring many things: excitement, anticipation, and—when it comes to navigating the city’s housing stock—nerves. Having left the city in the early 2000s to raise their three sons, a pair of now-empty nesters entrusted design and engineering studio Dunham Robinson to renovate their newly purchased 1,210-square-foot apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Dunham Robinson transformed a couple's new apartment with a warm entry sequence defined by an oak storage piece in the foyer.
Photo by Nicholas Venezia
Rather than one pendant light, a smattering of little globe lights expand above the dining table. This way, the couple can have a small table-for-two or comfortably host a group without being focused under one centered pendant light.
Photo by Nicholas Venezia
Before they could truly call it home, the apartment needed a few key updates: smarter, additional storage; a refreshed aesthetic; and improved circulation. It had to feel like a family home with spaces to socialize and relax. "It’s kind of a semi-empty nest," says architect and founding partner Rachel Robinson, because the couple still wanted to host their three boys when they came home from college and elsewhere.
A wood shelf is the perfect spot to place a pair of keys.
Photo by Nicholas Venezia
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