Category: <span>Details</span>

Our clients envisioned a staircase that would ribbon up through the core of their house. Close collaboration between design team and craftsmen ensured the success of the sculptural, unique, modern stair. In this Brooklyn Heights Passive House, collaboration with J’s Custom Contracting was key. We worked closely with the construction team, using sketches to convey…

The artistic nature of leaded glass lends itself to both modern and traditional houses. The Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse was an excellent opportunity for BIA Interiors to continue to work with one of our favorite artisans, Brooklyn-based Sunburst Studio. The leaded glass inset into the wet bar millwork balances the modern form and function of…

A quiet, private indoor-outdoor space is the perfect way to spend hot NYC days and evenings. In this Brooklyn Heights carriage house, we designed a unique sculptural penthouse. Due to the home’s location in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, vertical additions had to be invisible from the street. An asymmetric curved roofline allowed this addition…

This week, we’re highlighting one of our favorite projects – The Landmark at Strong Place. The adaptive reuse conversion of a mid-1800’s Minard Lafever Church into residential units won an AIA Brooklyn Design Award. Our exterior renovation focused on respecting the historic importance of the façade and integrating the surviving historic and new elements. Whenever…

In this historic Brooklyn townhouse, opening the stair hall and restoring the original stair allowed us to reimagine the space. By carefully removing and shifting partitions, the staircase seamlessly integrates with the rest of the home. The dramatic transformation visually connects the outdoors to the stair hallway, adding natural light and an awareness to the…

The surviving historic detailing in this Carroll Gardens brownstone became a shining feature of the finished home. Our goals included preserving historic details and connecting living spaces across multiple levels while meeting Passive House standards. Implementing Passive techniques in historic homes can be challenging, and this project was no exception. Partnering with experts and artisans…

They say good design is that which goes unnoticed. In our practice, it is often the details that look effortless that actually take the most labor to perfect. When finishing the underside of stairs in a townhouse, the starting point leaves much to the imagination. Working with skilled carpenters, we can shape and carve stairs…

We utilize ERVs, or Energy Recovery Ventilators, in not only our Passive Houses, but in most of our residential projects. ERVs draw outdoor air into the unit and foster an exchange of heat and moisture. Then, incoming air is filtered, cleaned, and introduced into the rooms of a home. At the same time the unit…

Even without an addition, this rear facade looks very different from its starting point. Not only are the large openings to the parlor kitchen and garden family room new, we also added a steel deck with stairs to connect the kitchen to rear yard. The easily overlooked detail is the transformation of the brick. Like…

One of the compromises in adding an elevator to this Brooklyn Heights home was that it would block the natural light streaming through an existing etched glass window into this stairwell. To make room for the elevator shaft located just on the other side of the etched window, we were able to condense the stairs…