The Avenel Cooperative, a ten unit housing complex, was completed in 1948 by architect Gregory Ain as an experiment in low cost post-war cooperative housing. After many years of neglect, this house was renovated in a way that is sensitive to the spirit of the original design, but not deferential to it. Interlocking forms and saturated colors add a dynamic dimension not present in the original. Echoing the interior, the new garden is a composition of interlocking swaths of various plant materials and paving surfaces.