Brownstone Voyeur is a joint project of casaCARA and Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn. This is a regular Thursday series walking you through brownstones, brick row houses, pre-war apartments, Victorians, carriage houses, lofts, and other Brooklyn abodes to see the colorful, creative, clever, cost-conscious ways people really live in New York City’s hippest borough.
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TODAY we’re peeking into the c.1904 bowfront brownstone French-born interior designer Caroline Beaupere shares with her husband, photographer Matt Arnold, in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

They bought the house in 2005, added a new kitchen and two new bathrooms, and brought all the original woodwork (of which there is plenty) back to life by stripping off dozens of coats of old stain.

Caroline
worked with designer Philippe Starck on the avant garde Hudson Hotel in
the Manhattan’s West 50s, and has just finished decorating the
Presidential suite at the New York Grand Hyatt, but the bulk of her
studio’s work is residential.

Caroline’s style is eclectic, a bit exotic, and most UNexpected, but grounded in the classics. There’s a free flow between modern and traditional. Colors are rich and deep. Accessories tend toward the ethnic. Bold ceiling fixtures dominate each room.