Throughout the apartment, beams, strange setbacks and geometries were removed by slight of hand: painting, decorating and re-use.  Here are the before and after photos.

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A home office with a huge closet was transformed into a library in a New York City residence.

Here the closet was removed, most of the right hand wall was removed, moldings and bookcases lessened the imposition of the structural beams.

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