One among our favourite home excursions on Remodelista lately? The Brooklyn brownstone duplex of Lena Corwin, a textile designer, photographer, and the writer of two books (Printing by Hand and Made by Hand)—and her husband Josh Dreier. What we cherished about their house was its offhand type, modest furnishings, and quiet restraint. Nothing felt belabored.
Then, in 2013, the couple relocated to San Francisco, the place Lena grew up, and acquired and renovated a 1913 Craftsman-style home within the Outer Sundown. The neighborhood is residential and modest, bordered on one finish by windswept seashores. “The place we stay—the final avenue earlier than Ocean Seashore—appears like the perimeter of town,” says Lena. Apart from a shared bohemian sensibility, it couldn’t be extra totally different from Brooklyn.
The identical could be mentioned of their new four-bedroom house: “After residing in a really ornate brownstone I used to be able to swing in the other way to trendy and minimal,” she tells us. And but, there’s one thing distinctly acquainted concerning the interiors: Its concentrate on humble supplies, a relaxing impartial palette, and a less-is-more ethos appears like a pure companion to and extension of their former Brooklyn house.
All of which is to say, we now have one other favourite house tour so as to add to our checklist.
Pictures by Maria del Rio, courtesy of Mom Journal (go right here to see extra pictures of Lena’s inspiring house).
