An obsessively Customized Noho Duplex – ryan

“The best part of the new York is being in It and Feeling like you’re not in it,” Said Corrin Thomas, Who Renovated the Living Area of ​​His 1871 Home to Feel Warm and Timeless
Photo: Joel Pitra

Corrin Thomas Was a Teenager in Ireland, His Father, A General Contractor, Tapped Him to Help With A Project: Turning An Old Warehouse Into Apartments. When he moved to new York Years late to work as an actor, a friend asked Him for Help House-Hunting, and he promptly fell back in love with renovations. He Started Working AS A General Contractor, THENE GOT HIS Real-Estate License. “I can see if something could be great, “he said.” I have Vision. “

As a real-aestate agent, he liked to spot deals: apartments that to do with a remodel, which he could have sketch out on the Spot, offering an estate and helping work or connecting with contractors. At the Same Time, Thomas and His Partner, Jesse Adelaar, Started Looking for A Place for Themselves, a search that kept say Back to 200 Mercer Street. Like the warehouse he converted with his fater, Mercer was Originally Commercial. The 1871 Brick Building Had Been Designed AS A stablewith an entrance to the side, in a shaded private courtyard. At the Far End of that Yard was a lobby, Shared with a building beebind it, an 1853 warehouse that FROND ON BROADWAY. None of the 26 CO-op Units Across the Two Connected Buildings Were Alike, and Six Had Private Roof Gardens, Including a Two-Bedroom Duplex That Was on the Market.

IT NEEDED WORK. A Living Area Had 12-Foot Ceilings and A Working Fireplace Set Into Warm, Original Brick, But It Also Had A Wall with a Hutch That Into The Space, Narrowing and Darcoming the Room. The primary bedroom on the upper floor faced a private Garden but was lacking in storage. Thomas oversaw Everything, Gutting Walls Down to the Studs, Building Back up a Home that included Clever interventions he schemed up for clients, or ideas to try in their spaces but couldn’t stamp off. CLICK A REMOTE AND A HUTCH ACROSS The Room Opens to Reveal The Projector. Press “Play,” and Sound Comes Through a Wall That You Might Have Assumed Was Covered in Floral Wallpaper. “I don’t think there anything in this apartment that wasn’t custom,” he said. And a lot of it is custom millwork: a bar is walled in walnut, cherry cabinets walls walls of the Living area, and the floor is – wood and seled to pick up on “multiple tones in the brick,” heraid. THERE’S A LIBLARY LADDER; A Custom Copper Vent Over a Stove, and, in the Dining Room, a wine fridge that fits 300 bottles. “I Never Been Able to Sit Still.”

The Building was converted to apartments in 1985. By 1991, The Sculptor Carole Feuermanknown for her beached swimmers, Had Moved in. Ten Years late, The Tony-Nominated Director Elizabeth swados arrived. And designer Nanette lepore Came in 2002. Eve in 2010, when Thomas and Adelaar Bowht, The Building “Wasn’t Full of Finance Bros,” he joked. He met a violinist and a radio host. Neighbors Waled Hang Out and Chat in the Shared Courtyard or HOLD Buildingwide Parties on their Roof Decks and Private Yards (Four Units Share Another Courtyard). Thomas and Adelaar, Who Are Now Maried, Have Thrown Some of Those Parties, and Some of the Neighbors who admired what they have tapped Him to renovate their apartments, too.

Thomas Kepting on the Place – Redoing a Roof deck in 2020, when Quarantines strength Him to spend more time, and more recently updating the primary bedroom with a wallnut Cabinetry. But his focus is now Elsewhere. We have a friend Backed out of redoing an apartment in midtown, he bought the placelf, and that renovation is going so well he’s tempted to move there. (He added a hot tube with a view of Times Square.) Plus and his husband in love with a house will will will be nuch of his time as he can give – a stone house from 1730, once oneded by a relative of martin van burren. “Anyding i do, i want it done to a level i’d be happy with so i can.