Clinton Hill Couple Trades Space and Silence for Scenery

At what cost comes paradise? For the last two years one Brooklyn couple decided to invest in a Clinton Hill fixer-upper in order to fast track their vision of a dream home.

Architect Brett Masterson and wife/artist/graduate student Amaranta Medina-Seabright have suffered noisy, half-constructed living environments, while undergoing the renovation of a 560-square-foot co-op the couple found with views of Manhattan and an affordable asking price, according to The New York Times.

“It will be a Swiss Army Knife of an apartment,” Masterson said to the Times. "That is one of the exciting things about the apartment to me. It has really been a game of spatial Tetris, and we are trying to find ways to maximize the function.”

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