Baxter Residence

A prewar co-op on the Upper East Side had good bones and poor light: a chain of small rooms that blocked the sun before it reached the interior. The owners wanted the apartment to feel larger without moving walls the building's board would never approve.

We opened sightlines instead of square footage, widening doorways, dropping partial walls to shoulder height, and resetting the palette to a quiet range of neutrals that let the light do the work. What was a series of separate rooms now reads as a single sequence of space, brightest at the center and calm at the edges.

Photography: Andrea Brizzi