Decorators Catherine Brophy and Erin Fearins, from CWB’s in-house design team, Fearins and Welch Interior Design, came on board next, with the goal of creating a sophisticated space that would simultaneously fulfill the needs of a couple with two children. But first, they needed to convince their clients that the majority of the furniture that had traveled with them from London just wouldn’t cut it. “Our challenge was to show them what their new home could be,” says Fearins, a former Nashvillian who joined the firm in 2005. She and Brophy guided the couple through New York’s design showrooms, shopping for sophisticated new furnishings such as a custom wool and silk living room rug from Patterson Flynn Martin. Its blue and gray hues, resembling clouds in a stormy sky, are further amplified by an A. Rudin sofa covered in a navy silk velvet.
A version of this article appeared in the September 2016 issue of NYC&G (New York Cottages & Gardens) with the headline: Brooklyn Bound.