Renovation and remodel of a typical NYC apartment bathroom in Chelsea, New York. The color palette is several shades of grey. A large medicine cabinet and mirror span the whole width from shower enclosure to wall, which together with clean lines and strategically placed shelves and towel bars make the bathroom appear bigger and brighter.

A 2-story beach house consisting of two distinct volumes. The volumes of the house are defined on plan by being offset, one further south than the other, creating an entry court at the front and a private sheltered deck facing the bay. The offset also helped to preserve the maximum number of trees in the front yard. The trees provide shade and privacy for the house. The exterior deck provides areas for outdoor dining, sunbathing, and include a jacuzzi and a large pool, the interior of the pool is grey, creating a strong visual link between the pool and the bay, reflecting light more dramatically than lighter pool finishes. The main living spaces all open onto the deck via large glass sliding doors providing panoramic views of the often spectacular sunsets. Maximizing bay views from all of the living spaces and master suite was the main focus of the design.

An extensive renovation of an Art Deco Apartment in New York City's West Village. The existing oak strip floors were refinished, walls and ceiling skim coated and painted. All baseboards and window trim replaced with new Art Deco inspired profiles. The kitchen renovated with European cabinets and appliances. The bathroom reconfigured with new fixtures and finishes. The built in in the study is custom designed for the space, to maximize storage and display space.

The Lake View House is a gut renovation of an Edwardian house. The house on Lake Waramaug CT was originally double the size and built as a hotel. After a fire half of the building was demolished and turned into a private home. When our client purchased the property it was in need of a complete renovation to optimize the space and maximize the views. We opened up the main floor to create one free flowing space comprising: the kitchen, dining area, living area and returned the enclosed porch to being an outdoor living space. The entire space has  panoramic views of the lake. The 3 levels the house are connected by a cedar faced wall that forms a backdrop to a custom blackened steel and pine stair case.
The bedroom floor consist of a master and guest suite with bathrooms designed in a simple modern aesthetic, mixing tile and cedar wall and floor finishes to create warm, clean and contemporary design solution.  The whole design fuses the character of the exiting traditional house form with the planning, spatial and aesthetic needs of the twenty first century.

The building is a classic original 1960's Horace Gifford/Harry Bates beach house in Fire Island Pines, NY. It is a 37'x37' square on plan, divided internally into three zones: a living-dining-kitchen zone facing the bay, a central core of circulation-storage-bathrooms and a strip of 3 bedrooms facing inland. The bedrooms and storage/ bath are at a higher elevation than the living space, linked together by a floating catwalk and open riser steps. The interior and exterior is clad with 12" wide Western Redwood planks.
The original kitchen and its enclosure, was removed and the new kitchen is open to the living space. The open kitchen does not just function better but it also reinforces the purity and symmetry of the space.  It is a clean and simple white Bulthaup kitchen with grey counters – it blends into the space and works beautifully with the existing Redwood walls. 
The work on the exterior consisted of reconstructing the bay side deck to include a swimming pool. A key design decision was to stagger the levels of the pool instead of constructing it at the original deck level.  A series of stepped decks interspersed with generous sunbathing platforms lead down to the pool and beyond to the beach. The steps provide a variety of places to lounge and sit around the pool. This design reinforced the three-dimensional “terraced” section all the way from the bedrooms and circulation space to the living space of the original design to the new outdoor living spaces.

Featured on dwell.com and on pinesmodern.org

This is a unique gut renovation of a 1-bedroom 5th floor walk-up apartment in a pre-war building. Gutting the apartment allowed us to do an extensive energy retrofit using the Passive House techniques. We then created a new interior including new a new kitchen and bathroom. The exterior walls were striped to the masonry- dense -pack cellulose insulation and an air barrier was added. The same was done for the roof. We replaced the existing double hung windows with triple pane, thermally broken tilt and turn windows. The apartment was heated with individual gas heaters which were in need of replacement. Thanks to the energy retrofit, we were able to replace them with two small mini split units for cooling as well as heating. To learn more please visit our blog.

A modern minimalist one bedroom apartment. The goal of this project was to maximize the storage to keep it clutter free without losing floor space. All cabinets are either matte white lacquer or oak, some are a combination of the two. The oak for the cabinets and floor are the same. The apartment was gut renovated, including new flooring, closets, doors, track lighting, electric wiring.

The bedroom is very small. Every inch counted when we were asked to maximize the storage. We custom designed a shallow built-in cabinet which is just deep enough to fit the clients' folded shirts. The shelves are 12" deep while the drawers below just 11". They can be used for smaller items or folded shirts sideways

Early in 2014, the owners of a small Manhattan studio approached DAS Studio with a request to convert their 320 sqft space into a high-functioning micro-apartment. The desire was to have all the functionality of a full-sized apartment within the footprint of this tiny studio. On taking on this challenge, we identified the minimal design objective of needing to incorporate four fully functional spaces into one room - a dining room seating 12, a master bedroom, guest room for two. The owners also needed enough storage space for their extensive china collection, hanging space to display their art collection, including a 4' x 10' painting and room for an entertainment system. Further, space needed to be accounted for a work desk that could be separated from the sleeping area in case one of the owners were still asleep. We set out to achieve all the above while still creating a space that was open and generous.

The video shows a two minute clip which was produced by Tine House Nation for their third season

The following renderings showing the different possible apartment configurations.

Located on Ocean Walk on Fire Island Pines, the house is designed on the foot print of an existing building, it faces directly to the ocean and beach. All three en suite bedrooms have ocean views, as does the large open plan living/dining/kitchen.

One of the design objectives was to give the house privacy and focus the inhabitants on the view of the ocean. The elevation of the house is significantly higher than the walk and has limited fenestration. As a visitor climbs the steps to the entrance the ocean become visible and when entering the house opens up completely to a panoramic view of the living space, deck and ocean. The house has a roof top deck with a hot tub, the deck has views down the beach and back across the island towards Long Island. The roof deck is a great place to watch the sunset over the is;and and Great South Bay

In Collaboration with Barbara Sternau

The renovation of a 2-bedroom apartment consisted of reconfiguring the layout of the existing bathrooms and closets to increase  the useable space, by finding lost space in closets and chase walls. The existing foyer was defined with wing walls and a drop ceiling with concealed lighting. The typical galley kitchen was opened to the living room to create an open modern living space. Built-ins were created to conceal the new HVAC equipment and also to create an office area with storage and display spaces.

Photos: Aleksandr Verbetsky from South Hadley

Small two bedroom Passive House, the house is designed for aging in place with all essential living and sleeping spaces on the ground floor. Additional sleeping and storage space is designed into the attic space. Construction- Planning Stage

The renovation of two small bathrooms in a 1960’s modernist house. The project borrowed space from adjacent store spaces and unused to chases to increase the physical space. Mirrors were strategically located to be both practical and to visually increase the apparent volume of the spaces. Simple finishes were used to create an elegant contemporary design solution.

Photos:  http://kermitbergstudio.com/

Apartment Renovation to create a stylish Pied-à-terre for entertaining and to house the owners collection of modern art. The project included two new bathrooms, kitchen renovation, millwork and finishes. Reconfiguring access to extensive re-landscaped terrace.

Project was featured on Behance
Photos by: Kevin Wick

Apartment Renovation including: new kitchen, bathroom, flooring and furnishings.

Published in Design Bureau Magazine

Apartment Renovation including: new kitchen, bathroom, color scheme and soft furnishings to coordinate with existing antique collection.

New construction beach house to replace one destroyed by fire. The house is located on the North shore of Fire Island with panoramic views of the Great South Bay from the house and decks and the Atlantic Ocean from the roof decks. The design incorporates the functionality of the original house but reconfigured to fully accommodate the current needs of the owners. With Alphonse Diaz

Photos: Jesse Nickerson Hays

Renovation of the public spaces of a Brooklyn Coop Building including: new finishes, hardware, lighting and color scheme.

Larabanga Learning and Reading Center, Ghana. A community project to be built by the town’s people with locally sourced sustainable materials

Renovation of a tiny kitchen in a one bedroom apartment overlooking the Hudson River. We treated the kitchen cabinets as furniture matching the style of the living room built-ins.

Remodeling of Chelsea apartment including new kitchen, flooring, closets and built-ins

Renovation of  a One Bedroom Duplex apartment. The overall look is simple and clean, but set off against finishes (all new) with naturally strong textures - note the reclaimed oak strips for the floor and the slate tiles. The clean lines of the quartzite kitchen counter is complimented and contrasted against the tree trunk bar counter. The kitchen was opened up to the living room and the closet and bathroom enlarged on the upper level with the closet cantilevered over the steps to maximize storage space, without encroaching on useable floor area.

Photos: Kevin Wick

New construction house, a modernist second home utilizing local materials and craftsmen. The house was inspired by the work of Luis Barragán, it incorporates loggias and pergolas for outdoor living, allowing the occupants to carry out many activities out of doors while being shaded from the direct sun. The gardens were planted with indigenous plants to minimize the need for irrigation.

Country house renovation and reconfiguration including: new dormer, new master suite, new bathrooms and kitchen. new furnishings and extensive decks.

With Alphonse Diaz

Award winning Conversion of a redundant Methodist Church into a house, maintaining the feeling of space and the original single volume of the existing building.

Published in Living etc.
Winner of the George Phillips Award Winner

Designed at Peter Gluck and Partners
Photos: Paul Warchol

New construction house, a multi level modernist house partially below yet floating over the Texas countryside.

Awarded:
-2006 Texas Society of Architects Design Award
-2006 BSA/ AIA NY Housing Design Award
Published in various national and international magazine