This renovation combined two apartments, each with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, into a wonderful, spacious four-bedroom home in Manhattan. On the lower floor, the spaces were reconfigured to enlarge the kitchen, primary bathroom, and bedrooms. A new study was introduced to the second floor, which also contains a larger living room with floor to ceiling bookshelves. A new stair with warm wood treads and a dark steel handrail was added to connect the two floors.

The design palette was simple and clean, allowing art and life to be highlighted on the muted background.

Photography: Bilyana Dimitrova