When Ted Allen first stumbled upon this Brooklyn brownstone, the carpet was bright red, the walls were Pepto Bismol pink and the facade was crumbling — and he thought it was perfect. The Chopped host and his husband, interior designer Barry Rice, knew that they had found something special in the 1879 four-story building, a former boarding house. “We were doing a bad job of hiding our excitement,” Ted says. For the next few years the couple overhauled the house from bottom to top. They spent a year and a half renovating the lower floors, took a break for a year, then tackled the top floors. Their goal was to preserve the best of the original features — like ornate molding and a stained-glass skylight. Once that was done, Barry filled the rooms with modern furniture and art, carefully choosing statement pieces for every part of the house. “To put crazy designer furniture from the '60s and '70s in a Victorian house is really fun,” Ted says. “This place has got plenty of quirk.”