CHEAT SHEET

Who lives here: Aniket Shahane, architect and founder of Office Of Architecture; his wife Blanca, a jewellery designer; and their twins, Mia and Niam, 8.

Style of home: A four-storey, three-bedroom house in South Slope, Brooklyn, New York, transformed from an 1890s two-bedroom house. After living in the house for six years, the couple spent two years planning the reno and around 10 months on the main build.