Stick House Brick Garden

ABA designed Stick House Brick Garden as a clear, lived-in framework for daily life: a slender timber “stick” structure paired with a crafted brick landscape so house and garden read as one. Taking ingredients from Greenpoint’s historic wood-framed townhouses—wood cladding, a masonry base, and double-hung windows with flower boxes—the project reshuffles familiar elements with a focus on resilience. At street level, the masonry steps out to form a social garden-room at the sidewalk’s edge; terraced brickwork, in the spirit of the neighborhood stoop, invites lingering and creates a gracious threshold between city and home. Inside, simple linear elements guide movement, frame long views, and draw soft daylight deep into the plan. Windowpanes establish a gridded order that carries across cedar panels and battens; the same rhythm appears in the interior trim, creating a calm framework for the clients’ collections and artworks. Materials are honest and meant to age well—warm wood, textured brick, and clean metal—while careful joints and uncluttered lines keep the composition clear. Open yet grounded, the home balances quiet routine with generous gathering—a poised, welcoming character that, as Cara Greenberg noted in Brownstoner, feels both intimate and expansive.