The rental apartment in my Brooklyn townhouse was a super fun space to design particularly since I was challenged with a limited budget. I mean, let’s be honest I needed to save those coins for the upper floors! Nothing like constraints to get the creative juices flowing. I approached the design as I would for a client knowing this was a space I would not live in. That said, itching in the back of my mind was a master plan – one day, perhaps, just maybe, I could turn this into an EyeSwoon test kitchen for workshops. That def amped up my desire to create a swoony space. I had a few goals in mind – working with a condenced floor plan, I wanted to maximize the space with an open-plan kitchen. This would allow natural light into the kitchen and make the overall space feel grander. Sticking to a controlled palette of high contrast black and white with no upper cabinets was another trick to make the space feel larger. Dark and moody on the bottom and light and bright up top. This was designed to engage the eye upward and give the feeling of a loftier ceiling height.