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Fabulous! What color paint did you use in the blue room?

I love the sheer ripple-fold curtain. I'm looking for something similar for my living room. Can you tell me where I can find it? Thanks.

This is beautiful! Would you mind sharing the charcoal grey paint color?

What a beautiful space!!! Just the right touch of architectural detail. But you must share with us the name of the blue paint color as well as where you bought the gorgeous sheer curtain.

the door-as-wall idea is a neat one...

resource question: small white endtables near the flokati rug.

It's dam perfect.

Really lovely space and the paint colors are excellent. I love that you painted just that one room (the study) the dark paint and how it looks from the bedroom with the black/white art on both walls.

The walls are so beautiful its nice to see all one color on the walls, not painting baseboards and trim another color, very elegant.

Your art and furniture looks so great in this space.

What color paints, the white is so clean and milky and that black with the blue undertone is gorgeous.

Gorgeous. An inspiration to those of us living in Brooklyn. It reminds me of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment on Sex and the City, which is a compliment :o)

You added the moldings yourself? I've been thinking about doing that -- was it pricey? Was it difficult to do? If you have DIY ideas for cheap and easy ways to add similar box moldings to your walls without it looking sloppy, amateurish or uneven, I'd love to see that.

This is so beautiful! I'm loving the contrast between the dark room and that bright white room. While it's still a little too modern for my taste, it still looks rather comfortable. Great job!

Very nice!

I can imagine you fell in love with the layout, it feels very soothing and harmonious. I could easily live in a place like this:
lovely apartment!

Elegant and beautiful.

this apartment reminds me of the one from 27 dresses...not the decorating, but the layout.

a good example of how breaking the rules are fine if they make sense: I'm sure most people would say you CAN"T mount a tv between two windows but it's fine here.

Wow!! Full house tour, please!

great space!

This is really nicely done. Fresh and airy, unpretentious. I love your use of light as wall and ceiling pattern. Kudos.

Nice place. Love the lighting and the way the pendant light casts a cross-hatch over the room.

Where is the leather couch from?

Jon, please share how you made or where you found the two white benches on either side of the TV. Are the legs Fintorp legs from Ikea? The benches look really nice, as does the rest of your apartment!

Beautiful. I love it all, but especially the blue room.

I would love to know if the dining table has always been white. I am looking to paint my table white and the chairs orange and this is such great inspiration!!!

Wow.... that's about all I have to say.

Love the walls. Love the color. Love it.

Please show us more. Including images of your wonderful doors closed.

Love it. Where are the TV components hidden?

Perfect, layout, colors, furniture....Perfect Apartment, would love to see more!

Thanks for all the comments! Some answers to your questions:
- The blue is actually a bluey gray (Benjamin Moore Wolf Gray) and the white is Benjamin Moore Super White.
- The material for the curtain was from Joes Fabrics on Orchard Street (there is a seamstress there called Mimi who made up and installed them).
- The white accent tables by the couch are from CB2, but I'm not sure that they carry them anymore. The couch itself was from ABC about five years ago.
- The benches either side of the TV are actually beautiful leather panels that a friend had made as part of a built-in headboard. We adopted them, reinforced them and put them on Ikea Fintorp legs (well spotted Myshkin). This was one of my proudest DIY moments.
- We put a power outlet directly behind the TV and opened the wall to hide the cables, which come out behind a wicker basket close-by that hides our cable box, mac mini and stereo.
- And the molding was all new - we marked it all out, but to be honest, jplee, it's a professional job to install it properly.

Really fantastic space! Beautiful and thoughtfully done.

Very elegant and sophisticated space. Would you mind sharing where you got your bed? It's nice and modern but still inviting.

Thanks hb100 - it's the Coconut Bed from CB2.

Definitely saved in my bookmarks as a favorite. This is one of the best homes I've seen yet!

I vote Full Tour!

if you put a full tour of this, i will do one of my London pad.

Its so lovely. Really, very inspiring. Classy, Modern and ever so slick.

Layout and colour scheme are beyond Gorgeous. Love, love the wall detailing.

I've been ill for months, but this really drew me in. Love the colour, had to comment. Thanks joncp for providing the colour name/mfr. Fresh, modern, comfortable, clean, perennially crisp. Full tour, please!

what a beautiful place! love the colors of the walls and the design aspects. where is it located in boerum hill? my husband and I have been deciding where in brooklyn we are going to land, williamsburg, boreum hill, brooklyn heights.

joncp- I love when people come back and tell what they did, thanks. The headboard benches, genius!

Wow surprised about BM-super white paint curious to know what your exposure is? Must be California stronger sun in my western exposure room I tried this white and all I can say 'straight jacket" in your space its to milky nice.

Love it!

Great space. Thanks for sharing it.

Where did you get the benches in your living room by the windows? I'm looking for something similar to put in my bedroom

You have alot of different shades of wood. Flooring Table base, kitchen chairs, lounge chairs, bed end chase etc. (It all works very well together).

Q: What stain is your timber flooring?

I love it. My only complaint. I want more pictures, your home is gorgeous thanks for sharing.

I forgot to ask where did you get the wooden chairs in the living room from I've been looking for something like that.

love the couch and the floating tv..very impressive.

A perfect Euro-USA marriage which at once is fresh and comforting. Excellent. ... but TWO crowned HRMs?? ;)

Lovely!

I beg to differ on the issue of installing the wall moldings. It can be done by an amateur with the right tools (miter saw, measuring tape, level, hammer & nails) and a tendency towards carefulness. The molding itself is inexpensive.

Love it! Can't believe it started off as "cookie cutter" – you've done a great job to make it look anything but. Very creative and modern-looking place.

FYI, I have a hallway that connects the front part of my house to the back part of my house and I did the same thing you did. I made the front and the back very light and I used a similiar dark paint for the hallway. The effect has wowed everyone.

what is on top of your dining room table? are they votives with something in them?

I absolutely love it! It looks very chic.

Yummy cool!

heh, i scored two of those cb2 tables when they were 9.99 each!! i wish they had more, yo.

you've got one sexy abode. great job!

The lighting is phenomenal. And the sheer curtains - love love love them.
It looks well-loved, comfortable, super sophisticated, orderly, vibrant & respectful.
(In my mind I now award you the medal for wonderful interiors).

To be honest Jon, I kinda liked it how it was before. Any chance of you salvaging what little left there is of the original apartment?

couple of queries...
did you use brushes or rollers to apply the paint to the walls? what did you use to protect the floor - Newspaper or sheets? Do you have any i can borrow? And what colour is your garden?

very tastefully done!

love how the tv is integrated in the interior instead of standing out. The shape fits the coffee table, which makes it one whole. Awesome!

Oh you make me want to live in Brooklyn again. I love EVERYTHING about your space. Spacious, charming, modern and inviting without being cold.

Lovely job!!!

Perfect.

Hi- I love the white shelves/ small wall mounted cabinet combo - we are looking to do something similar where did you get the pieces from? Thanks

I really like the idea of the blue sofa blending into the color of the wall. I may do that for my living room.

such a nice space with flow. I would love to see the kitchen and bath.

Thanks everyone, really appreciate your feedback...

showe, the white shelves are Jarpen and the wall-mounted cabinet is a basic Akurum kitchen wall cabinet (mounted low) - both from IKEA.

Planetzorack, the floors are exactly as we found them, so not sure what the stain is unfortunately.

absOsteele, the wooden chairs are Eames plywood lounge chairs (in Walnut).

Fantastic setup! Would you mind telling us about your art pieces?

janiewg, the Queens are by Grant Innes, a Canadian artist and a friend of ours. You can see more of his work at http://www.innesart.com. The rest are either photos we've taken of gifts from friends...

It's beautiful. I also agree we need to see the full house tour :)

An all-time favorite. Love all of this. You've done a fantastic job of decorating a place that looks like a joy to live in. Beautifully styled, but not over styled!

This is to die for…

Two questions, both about BM "Super White" paint color:

1) Can you tell us what sort of white this is? Does it have ochre mixed in, blue undertones, etc? (I live in Europe where BM paints aren't sold, or I'd just go buy a can).

2) Are you by any chance a fan of Vicente Wolf? He recommends this white paint over all others, says it is perfect.

THANK YOU, and WOW, again!

Beautiful! I think your dining area in particular looks very inviting, and the shadows cast by the light fixture there are neat!

BlueAholic, I think that Super White is supposed to be a white that is devoid of undertones. Here's a link AT post I've been looking at that describes some of the most popular BM whites: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/follow-up-best-white-paints-065672

What a lovely space. Where did you purchase the lattice pendant fixture over the dining table? Oh, the shadows it casts! Brilliant.

LovelyDarkandDeep - THANK YOU! Just came checking to see if there was an answer about the whites! The link is very useful, indeed; just printed it to have on hand.

The BM Super White sounds like just what I want. Guess I'll have to pack a small can in my bag next trip to USA! (And then try to match it here with another brand - wish me luck…). Thanks again!

Just saw the Jon and Ro house tour and I loved what you did.I just finished (well almost) renovating my 2 bedroom apt in Mnahattan and I love it! Feels like a new place. Having an architect that understood what I wanted, and helped me acheive what I wanted really made a difference. And having a great contractor, someone that actually showed up everyday, someone that takes pride in his work and did really top notch work also made for this wonderful outcome!!

Hi Jon,
Can you advise me on how you did the double doors? Do they make a good seal between the rooms? How's the sound? Did you ever look at doing sliding doors?
Thanks,
David

beautiful!!! i love what you've done with this space!!
the only thing that puzzles me: why did you turn the 2nd bedroom into a small living room? it seems a better use of space would be as a home office or guest room. it just looks a little odd to have couch seating directly off from the living room. but the actual decorating you've done is gorgeous! :)

I love love love this.
I need to know where I can get the lattice lamp. It's beautiful!!!!!!

DigNDesign and Julygirl - the pendant above the dining table is the Kina lamp by David Trubridge (a NZ designer). You can see it here http://www.davidtrubridge.com/kina/ and you can buy it from DWR. We love it too!

david b - the seal between the double doors is not perfect, but certainly works for us. The edges where the doors meet was planed at a angle to allow a tighter fit, and while there is a narrow gap between the doors, sound insulation is perfectly fine (solid core doors are essential). We looked at sliding or pocket doors, but we wanted the effect of double-wide french doors and were lucky to have enough room behind them to allow them to swing 180 degrees.

vintagedress - the second bedroom is in fact still the second bedroom - the sectional couch is a pull out bed that we use for guests, and the large white desk next to it serves as our home office. it's a very versatile room - for working, entertaining and guests - we hated the idea of having a spare bedroom that we only ever use if a friend is in town. and it's going to evolve into a nursery in November....

I adore this apartment.

Two questions:

1. did the contractor help you lay out the molding?
2. where is the dining room table from?

Great job...I think this is exactly what my apartment would look like if I had the money and the space!

One question: Where did you get the rug? I love it.