It’s been nearly a year since Julie stopped into an event in the East Williamsburg headquarters of Fabr Studio and, after poking around the premises, promptly dubbed them “Brooklyn’s most inventive, resourceful, economy-minded, under-the-radar architecture firm.” (She later returned with photographer Matthew Williams and his camera to capture the studio, and its garden, in full.) Since then, we’ve been seeing Fabr Studio’s work pop up everywhere, solidifying Julie’s initial hunch: this is the firm to watch.

Today we’re revisiting their DIY, industrial/tropical studio kitchen, with, said one of the principals, “a quality of light unusual for New York City.” Take a closer look.

Photography by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.

Above: The principals of the firm themselves—Thom Dalmas, Bretaigne Walliser, and Eli Fernald—slowly overhauled the interiors of an industrial building in East Williamsburg (and they’re still at work, Julie notes). Now, the studio’s kitchen has raked cement walls on three sides and an ad-hoc curtain on the other.

The team built out the kitchen with stainless steel tables, the sort from restaurant supply stores, on either side of a salvaged range; crates and a vintage set of drawers keep essentials corralled on the lower shelves.

The long center dining table was another DIY: two long Ikea butcher block counters propped up on two-by-fours. The Stendig cane chairs were an eBay find.

Above: Above the metal counters, another ingenious hack: shelf brackets made of sawed-off Ikea Frosta legs, which now hold houseplants and cutting boards.