SETTING the PATTERN

When wallpaper and textile maven Kate Reynolds decides to make over a townhouse in Brooklyn for her family, it becomes an opportunity to practice the graphic exuberance she preaches

Joanne Kaufman

Three years ago, soon after the birth of their second child, Kate Reynolds and her husband, Rem, realized they were outgrowing their apartment in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. Both natives of South Carolina, they had grown up in houses with front lawns and backyards. They wanted their boys to have the same experience, but in high-priced New York City, they knew the pickings would be slim and the prices high. They accepted the fact that they would have to make some trade-offs. “If the layout was reasonable and there was a yard,” Reynolds says, “my attitude was, ‘I can work with this.’ ” The couple’s search led them to a century-old brick-andlimestone rowhouse in Windsor Terrace, a former blue-collar redoubt in central Brooklyn. Granted, the neighborhood wasn’t quite as trendy as…

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ELLE DECOR (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2017

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