This is Deborah Marland and David Backus’s airy-four story house located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The house is clean and contemporary. Actually Ms. Marland has lived in this house since the early 1970’s, when he moved there with his mother.

From left: Ruby Young, Ian Roberts, Jeff Brown, Alex Herring and Christina Sedan, who is visiting. The four live in a loft on McKibben Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn.