Leaving your home is always difficult.The owners of this apartment brought their native Brazil to the roof of a building in New York. Read about the results in our article Florist Christine Peixoto and her husband Marcus Silberman, a bank specialist, have lived their entire lives in Rio de Janeiro. And when they moved to Manhattan, they chose an apartment with the largest terrace they could find.
Now the nostalgic couple with 2 childrenMay to September, they live the way they liked to live in Brazil, and spend most of the day outdoors. And 600 square meters of well-equipped terrace fully meets the needs of every member of the family.
However, this would not have been possible without a designer.Peter Pawlak, whom the couple invited to create coziness in their new property. And if the designer worked on the terrace project together with professional landscaper Maureen Hackett, then Peter himself designed the apartments. The designer admits that he loves working with families, because maintaining the style and satisfying the desires of several people at once, often very different, can be extremely difficult, but at the same time very exciting.
Our opinion Attacks of nostalgia or justThe desire to bring a piece of the old into a new home can be satisfied with several techniques. Photos and paintings from your favorite places will set the right direction, which can be supported by plants, thematic patterns on textiles and finishing materials brought from "those very" places or at least reminiscent of them.
The designer received quite a few unusualconditions. The owners' eldest daughter, who is already 18, demanded that her bedroom be made as ascetic as possible: "Let everyone who comes here think that I have nothing of my own at all." Her 15-year-old brother was exclusively concerned with a comfortable merger with a video console and the presence of a shelf for football awards. The owner of the house wanted to see the apartment exclusively in a white palette, and only in the bedroom, from her point of view, should there be ... black. The head of the family even demanded that the fireplace be completely blocked up, because there are no fireplaces in Brazil. The designer objected, reminding them that they are now in New York and that it can be quite cold here in winter. To this, the customer cheerfully replied that winter does not exist for him.
Life on the roof: an apartment in Manhattan with a huge terrace
