Recipe For Style

Artist and foodie Julia Sherman has combined her passions in a Brooklyn brownstone that serves up a millennial mix of inspiring design ideas.

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This was definitely the worst house on the block; it had squatters and crazy things had been happening here. Fortunately, the neighbourhood’s changed a lot,’ laughs Julia Sherman about her 1880s Brooklyn brownstone.

‘Inside, it was in really bad shape, very hodgepodge, with black mould on the walls and rat droppings in the closets. But the fact that it was untouched meant all the original mouldings and fireplaces were still in place.’

Julia, an artist and food blogger, and her husband Adam, a brand strategist, moved in six years ago and spent a year turning the house into a home and workspace, splitting the building into two apartments. They live in the downstairs one, which covers the lower-ground and ground floors. Julia creates the recipes for her blog, Salad for President, in the kitchen, while Adam runs his company from the apartment on the top two floors. ‘I’m restless and can never sit still, so this house suits me,’ says Julia. ‘I spend all day running up and down the stairs, picking home-grown ingredients from the backyard, cooking in the kitchen and photographing and writing the recipes in my office downstairs.’