One Gorgeous Garage

Pattern Play: Armed with a navy and neutral color palette and intriguing fabrics and tiles, interior designer Kristin Peake transformed a drab 19th-century dependency into a light-filled stunner.

Go with the Flow: Maryland-based couple Rick and Kristy Schultz “bought a garage”—i.e. a three-story carriage house in sight of the Battery—as a second home, enlisting Richard Marks Restorations and Kristin Peake Interiors to transform the formerly drab dependency. Just as renovations were wrapping up, Tropical Storm Irma washed a foot and a half of surge into the ground floor (left), which spurred on storm adaptations. They revised the exterior hardscape with an eye toward drainage and changed up interior materials, furnishings, and electrical wiring to suit.