Before & After: A Fossilized Stingray and Mom’s
Saturday, Sep 19, 2026

Before & After: A Fossilized Stingray and Mom’s Artwork Inspired This Brooklyn Renovation

A pair of art appreciators used their collected curios as a starting point for turning an odd townhome into a sweet family residence.

After two years of scouring listings in Brooklyn’s Windsor Terrace neighborhood, Sophia Shore immediately knew when she had found her new home. "My heart started pounding, and I was like, This is it. I can just tell, looking at the bones of the home, the windows facing south, the triangular configuration of each room," she says. "I thought, Wow, a lot of people would not like this, and this is exactly what we want."

With immediate plans to start a family, Sophia and her husband, Robin, had a compressed timeline. The couple purchased the 1,800-square-foot townhome in December of 2024, began demolition on bathrooms and the ground floor the following January, and then hired New York design studio Office of Tangible Space, or OTS, in February to lead a renovation.

Before: Kitchen


Before: The dated floors, counters, and tiles were all replaced. To cut down on costs, the couple decided to keep all the appliances and refinish the cabinets, rather than replace them entirely.

Before: Bulky columns and unnecessary walls created a dark, cramped galley kitchen. The renovation replaced the clumns with much smaller decorative enclosures and tore down the additional walls.

After: Kitchen



The soapstone counters are by ABC Stone and the blue Zellige tile is Clé.

Photo by Matthew Gordon

See the full story on Dwell.com: Before & After: A Fossilized Stingray and Mom’s Artwork Inspired This Brooklyn Renovation
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By: Grace Bernard
Title: Before & After: A Fossilized Stingray and Mom’s Artwork Inspired This Brooklyn Renovation
Sourced From: www.dwell.com/article/before-and-after-windsor-terrace-residence-renovation-office-of-tangible-space-c4ee196d
Published Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:57:16 GMT

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