\u2018I\u2019d grown up in Kensington, so I was very snooty about being the other side of the river, and didn\u2019t want to ever feel like I was living in the suburbs,\u2019 says Marysia. \u2018But then we were living on this very commercial street at 27th and Broadway, surrounded by discount T-shirt and handbag stores, and it was so noisy and filthy.\u2019<\/p>\n

Marysia had heard a bit about the leafy suburb of Fort Greene, which had been gaining a reputation as a creative hub since artists started moving there in the 1980s. The film director Spike Lee had set up his film company there and, as Marysia recalls, \u2018it was a very cool neighbourhood, with a lot of young creative people doing cool things. But really, nobody I knew lived in Brooklyn at that point \u2013 absolutely nobody\u2019.<\/p>\n

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It was a trip to visit a friend-of-a-friend in the area that finally made her drop her preconceptions and fall in love with the quiet tree-lined streets of brownstones, built in the 1860s. She also realised that it was incredibly close to Manhattan \u2013 just a five-minute drive from the Manhattan Bridge \u2013 and as one half of an interracial couple, a place where they could feel at home \u2013 \u2018the neighbourhood looked like \u2018us\u2019,\u2019 she says.<\/p>\n
It was also somewhere in which they could acquire a whole house, rather than just an apartment, and after several months of searching, they came across the perfect property \u2013 a four-storey townhouse on one of Fort Greene\u2019s loveliest streets.<\/p>\n
The living room<\/h2>\n
\u2018The lady we bought the house from had lived here for 40 years. She was 101!\u2019 says Marysia. \u2018What was fantastic was that, unlike many similar houses, which had been chopped up and lost their beautiful details, this one was pretty much intact.\u2019<\/p>\n
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The hallway<\/h2>\n
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The dining room<\/h2>\n
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The bedroom<\/h2>\n
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The bathroom<\/h2>\n
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The living room<\/h2>\n\u2018The lady we bought the house from had lived here for 40 years. She was 101!\u2019 says Marysia. \u2018What was fantastic was that, unlike many similar houses, which had been chopped up and lost their beautiful details, this one was pretty much intact.\u2019<\/p>\n