Building will be family affair.

As the widely reported Brooklyn residential real estate renaissance continues, one building at a time, another major contribution has been made by the firm Steven Kratchman Architect, P.C.

Construction is set to begin this month on the Kratchman-designed "totally family friendly" six story, seven-unit condominium apartment house in Brooklyn at the corner of Ocean Parkway and Avenue M, across the street from Agudath Israel of Flatbush Synagogue, in a traditionally family-oriented neighborhood of mostly post-war 1940s and 1950s two-storey homes.

The design for the new, six-storey, seven unit condominium features one duplex, one triplex and five individual apartments of up to three bedrooms.

Each unit is designed in a large-layout, family-friendly scale. The front duplex utilizes part of the first floor and, for added value to the buyer, part of the cellar as a large, additional, family recreation room. The triplex unit consists of part of the second floor, part of the first floor and, again, for added value to the purchaser, part of the cellar for an additional, large, recreation room.

On the roof, there is a terrace, front and back. One-half of the roof area is a private terrace for the top, sixth-floor apartment. The second half of the roof is a common terrace recreation area shared by the other units. And, every apartment has both front and back balconies and terraces, and each also has one off-street, private parking space on the building's lot.

On the Ocean Parkway side, the profile features a graceful setback of ten feet over six stories, with a balcony on each floor.

The new apartment house is set on a corner lot that measures 26 feet by 150 feet. The footprint of the building, itself, occupies 26 feet by 85 feet. There is a gracefully angled ten foot setback on the Ocean Parkway facade. The building is set back eight foot from the sidewalk along the Avenue M side, allowing another side yard area for both privacy and plantings. The 35-foot rear area is devoted to private parking.

The team also designed the building's interior and specified the materials, fixtures, lighting and appliances for all seven condo apartments.