They love to entertain, and wanted a space suitable for family-style meals. Carroll and Barbour, who own restaurants in Williamsburg, in the dining room with their 9-year-old twins, Susannah and Dante. His partner in business and life, Kim Barbour, 43, got on board for what turned out to be a 15-year journey to homeownership.
Anselm, for example, he used decorative molding from the 1940s on the ceiling.īut Carroll, a 47-year-old New Jersey native whose popular restaurants and nightspots include barbecue joint Fette Sau and beer bar Spuyten Duyvil, didn’t think about crafting his own house from upcycled building blocks until the early 2000s, when he read about area houses made from decommissioned shipping containers. Over two decades as a restaurateur, Joe Carroll has incorporated odds and ends from salvage yards into his Brooklyn eateries.
