With two young boys, someone is always coming back from one activity or another. “We’re an active family spending as much time as we can in the mountains climbing, biking, and skiing,” explains the client, who requested an exercise room where they could stow all that gear along with their at-home equipment.
Sofas needed to be comfortable the kitchen needed space for cookbooks, wine storage, and an extra large refrigerator. Throughout the Upper East Side home, function was at the root of many aesthetic decisions. (It was built around 1926.) Meanwhile, by opening up the floor plan, they created an airier atmosphere that revealed expansive views towards the Central Park reservoir. Stripping things back and starting from scratch, they installed picture frame molding, baseboards, and white oak flooring that spoke to the apartment’s prewar history.
As Leandro explains, “We wanted to make traditional details feel a little bit more contemporary.” Rather, they aimed to inject the prewar apartment with a bit of historic charm, imbuing it with a sense of place while lightening and brightening the space. But they didn’t want to turn the place into a slick white box-something too contemporary. The brief was pretty straightforward: a gut renovation to reveal a cleaner, more modern look fit for their active lifestyle.Īshe and Leandro were happy to oblige. So they called in AD100 designers Ariel Ashe and Reinaldo Leandro to revamp the interiors. As for the dated renovation that hadn’t been touched since the nineties? They’d need to do something about that.
When this young New York family snapped up their dream Central Park–gazing apartment on the Upper East Side, they loved the gracious living spaces, natural light, and flexible floor plan.
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