A Brooklyn Family's Pet-Friendly, Kid-Filled Self-Made Comfort Zone

Ada Davila and Agustin Hurtado transformed part of a 19th-century brewery in East Williamsburg into a bright and lively home.

- WENDY GOODMAN

WE LOVE ANYTHING THAT SHINES and if it changes color,” says Ada Davila of the two-level home in East Williamsburg that she and her husband, Agustin Hurtado, whom everybody calls “Chango,” have spent the past 16 years remaking (and then remaking again). Specifically, she was referring to the family’s Geometrix Da Vinci chandelier from Schonbek, which sparkles over their dining-room table. The house, which the two artists share with their three kids, two rescue dogs, two rescue cats, and a rescue hamster, is alive with the couple’s bright-hued obsessions.