Breskin Interiors — Michelle Breskin
Breskin Interiors

Interior Design · New York City & the East End of Long Island

Feeling first.
Then the floor plan.

Interiors for new construction, whole-house renovation and makeovers — from land purchase through the last light fixture.

The premise

I design for form, functionality and feeling. The last is the hardest to draw.

A house is where a family's life happens, so the brief that matters is usually the one a client hasn't said out loud yet. I listen for that first, then design around it — the rooms you actually live in, the light, the materials you touch every day, and the small things that make a house feel like it was always yours.

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New Construction

Involved from land purchase through conceptual design to final presentation, alongside the architect and the build team rather than after them.

02

Renovation & Restoration

Older houses brought forward properly — landmarked integrity kept intact, with modern light, clean living and contemporary interiors laid over it.

03

Makeovers

A single room or a whole floor, reworked with what the house already gives you: furniture, finish, colour and the small conveniences that change a day.

Selected work

Finished interiors

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Who you'd be working with

Michelle Breskin, Founder

I co-founded Breskin Development in 2009 and have been its Creative Director since, designing the interiors of luxury residences in New York City and across Southampton, Water Mill, Bridgehampton, Sagaponack and Sag Harbor. Breskin Interiors is a natural addition to that work, offered now to clients building or renovating a house of their own.

I take as readily from art, fashion and technology as from architecture. I came to design from financial services and a beauty business I founded, and hold an MBA in marketing.

More about me

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The residences

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Work with Breskin Development, in print and online.

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About

Some clients arrive with drawings. Others arrive with a feeling.

Both are a workable place to start. I co-founded Breskin Development in 2009 and have been its Creative Director since — involved from land purchase through conceptual design to final presentation, on new construction, historic restoration and custom builds in New York City and across the East End.

My focus is form, functionality and feeling. The last is the hardest to draw, and it is the one that decides whether a house works. I take as readily from art, fashion and technology as from architecture, and I listen before I specify: the brief that matters is usually the one a client hasn't articulated yet.

When the Captain John Hulbert House was finished — a c.1760 residence in Sag Harbor's historic district that the building inspector had questioned could be saved at all — my family and I moved in, the first people to live there in years. What I noticed was not the scale of it.

"It's the little things, like the back stairs or second-floor laundry."

The East Hampton Star

I came to design from financial services and a beauty business I founded, and hold an MBA in marketing. Clients are intricately involved in the planning and design of their homes, and I prefer it that way. A custom house is a long conversation, and the questions worth asking tend to come up at framing rather than after the drywall is closed.

Since

2009

Where

New York City · Southampton · Water Mill · Bridgehampton · Sagaponack · Sag Harbor

Featured in

Robb Report · Mansion Global · New York Post · Cottages & Gardens · The East Hampton Star · Netflix

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