Brooklyn Heights Home By JWG Interiors
In Brooklyn Heights, JWG Interiors renew a refined 1900s brownstone townhouse—modernised without erasing the past, and tuned to everyday life.
Words HANDE RENSHAW Photos ETHAN HERRINGTON Architecture OSSO ARCHITECTURE Interiors JWG INTERIORS
In the kitchen, stone benchtops take centre stage, grounded by hand laid herringbone oak flooring.
Brooklyn Heights Home is an elegant and refined take on historic-meets-modern living.
The dining nook beyond the arched doorway features a custom upholstered banquette seat, designed to save space.
The interior seamlessly blends historic architectural details with contemporary comforts.
Arched doorways throughout the home reveal an extra layer of detail.
The foyer’s large scale allows it to serve several roles.
The homeowners’ son chose the dark wall colour for his room.
The home is laid out over three floors.
“We were mindful of using a common design language throughout the spaces.”
The main bedroom and bathroom are enveloped in a rich palette of blush hues and natural greens, evoking a sense of tranquility.
The children spaces burst with vibrant and bright colours, fostering a playful and energetic spirit.
Upstairs, every bedroom lives on one level; the two children’s rooms are small but lifted by colour, texture and pattern.
In Brooklyn Heights, Osso Architecture and JWG Interiors reimagine a three-storey, circa 1900s townhouse into a family home as a conversation between past and present.
Led by principal designer Jessica Gould, JWG Interiors worked from what remained—plaster crown moulding and timber window casings. From there, the team rebuilt with measured restraint, keeping historical proportions intact instead of replicated, and refining circulation, storage, and sight lines.
The brief for the home called for elegance with ease across four bedrooms and three-and-a-half bathrooms. JWG Interiors began by carefully cataloguing the surviving details, restoring the crown profiles and casings, and using them as anchors for new trims and mouldings drawn with quieter lines. That restraint sets the tone: heritage is honoured, composition is clarified, and the whole reads as calm rather than reverential.
The balance is clearest in the kitchen: a singular stone bench anchors the room, its weight tempered by hand-laid herringbone oak underfoot. The pairing gives gravitas and warmth—drama held in order. The language repeats throughout: the entry’s curved inlaid stone picks up the chandelier’s arc and the bar stools’ sweep, so movement feels deliberate from the threshold onward.
Colour does the zoning within the home. In the main bedroom, blush tones and natural greens soften light and temper scale, bringing a quiet, restorative mood to both bedroom and bath. In the children’s rooms and play spaces, the palette brightens—vibrant, buoyant hues that invite invention without tipping into noise. Throughout, finishes are chosen to sit comfortably alongside one another: polished with matte, veined with plain, solids with subtle pattern—each choice reinforcing the home’s measured rhythm.
Function is folded into the elegance. Storage is integrated, sight lines are edited, and circulation is intuitive across all the three levels in the home. Details are scaled to the architecture; skirting, architraves and joinery that feel neither timid nor oversized—and materials repeat just enough to keep the narrative cohesive.
Brooklyn Heights Home shows JWG Interiors at its most considered: drawing out character where it exists, redefining it where it doesn’t, and threading new moments through a consistent formal and material language.
It’s historic meeting modern without the cliché: refined, organised, and quietly confident, built for contemporary family living, where proportion stays honest, materials are allowed to breathe, and everyday rituals; cooking, reading, getting out the door—move with ease. Favouring longevity over gesture, the palette is measured, details repeat with purpose, and storage works quietly in the background, making the house durable, adaptable, and calm through every level.
