Tribeca Loft Duplex

“We wanted that loft feeling—to shift our lives from little rooms to entertaining space...We were looking and looking and looking, and we found that there were either new developments where everything had been chosen for you, or these huge places where you’d have to start from scratch and knock down to the studs” the clients stated. The couple opted for the latter, buying a penthouse structure at the top of a Tribeca building that had been the Philadelphia Cream Cheese cold storage warehouse back in the 1920s. “It was a wreck...The building had been developed in the ’90s, but the previous owners never got to fixing up the loft...With the architecture being so structured—and there are so many rules and permits in New York City—it was fun, then, to finish off the place by putting things together and just seeing how they flowed.” So much fun that the couple had opted to furnish their new home entirely from scratch.