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This Five-Story Fells Point Townhouse Was Designed to Highlight Its Harborfront Views
“When two New Yorkers found their new home-to-be, the house was already in good shape,” says interior designer Pascale de Fouchier. “What it needed was a soul.”
Project Name: Fell St., Baltimore
Interior Design: Pascale de Fouchier Interiors
Built-Ins/Banquette: KB&R Home Improvement
Styling: Limonata Creative
The Dock of the Bay: Avery and Daniel Eisenson had spent a year renting in Baltimore after leaving New York. “When they found their new home-to-be, the house was already in good shape,” says interior designer Pascale de Fouchier. “What it needed was a soul.”
The five-story townhouse overlooked the marina in Fells Point. “The vision was about bringing the outside in,” de Fouchier explains. “We designed around the views, the light, the harbor. Think yacht club, but the kind that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Relaxed, nautical in spirit, quietly sophisticated.”
A Family Heirloom: De Fouchier was tasked with including a Persian rug—a treasure from Daniel’s parents. She pulled the beige, red, and blue from the rug and let those tones thread throughout the space, quietly connecting the rooms.
“Every project has one thing that makes it click,” she says. “Here it was the tension between that Persian rug and the harbor beyond the windows—old world and new, heirloom and horizon. Once I started designing around it, everything fell into place.”
Living Spaces: The living and dining floor is where the real work happened. The dining room was conceived as a quiet, almost understated landing place—you come up the stairs, and it just settles you in.
“No grand gesture,” says de Fouchier. “Just the right proportions, the right light, the water beyond the windows.”
The family room has a wall-to-wall desk that’s sleek, modern, and completely practical. “The kind of thing that looks like furniture but works like architecture,” she says.