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<\/p>\n\u201cWe were playing it safe in the beginning, but then we presented bolder design choices, and they kept saying yes,\u201d says O\u2019Donnell. \u201cIt became this much more fun, fantastical apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Donnell\u2019s design skills were put to the test in the living room, where structural issues prevented his team from removing the entire drop ceiling. Turning the constraint on its head, he created a recessed oval \u201cdome\u201d hung with a sculptural plaster chandelier. \u201cIt is really interesting how some of the obstacles that appeared as we were doing the renovations, he turned them into pieces of architectural art,\u201d says Hindsgaul.<\/p>\n
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In a corner of the dining room, a former closet transformed into a wet bar. It\u2019s wallpapered in Fabricut\u2019s<\/a> Paden Patina, designed to look like patinated copper. \u201cSomething that was important to me was having a great bar, and Kyle built a beautiful one,\u201d says Duffer.<\/p>\n Gemma Sconce by Sophie Lou Jacobsen for In Common With<\/p>\n Kosta Boda Limelight Pitcher & Glasses Set<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the room\u2019s central sofa, which had to be durable enough for the couple\u2019s two young daughters and large enough to seat up to ten for movie nights. O\u2019Donnell came up with a 15-foot-long Brutalist piece consisting of rows of cubes facing three directions, upholstered in rust-colored mohair. \u201cI don\u2019t know many people that would go for that,\u201d says the designer. \u201cWith clients like Sarah and Matt, it was an opportunity to try things that I\u2019ve never tried before.\u201d More color and whimsy awaits in the adjacent dining room, a space wrapped in a hand-painted mural depicting botanical scenes in shades of green and amber, made by artist Dean Barger<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe were playing it safe in the beginning, but then we presented bolder design choices, and they kept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[15519,15517,75,84,83,9,24,63,15518],"class_list":["post-140207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-domestic-home-tour","tag-home-tour","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-web-exclusive-home-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}