Elyse Moody

File this one under New York City apartment quirks: When designer Christina Salway cleared out her family’s Brooklyn townhouse—which had been piled floor to ceiling with decades of junk when they bought the abandoned property—she found a sink and a gas stove in one of the bedroom closets. The place had essentially been subdivided into makeshift apartments for different members of the prior owners’ family, who lived there for 90 years. Her challenge, then, became turning the ramshackle house back…