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Ella Rooney calls herself a “mini factory.” The 26-year-old is the founder of Stitchd, a custom-sewing service for cushions and other interior furnishings that she runs from her home in a onetime soda-bottling factory in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.

Ms. Rooney and her fiancé, Brandon Hall, 33, who works in real-estate development project management, moved into the $3,900-a-month apartment in February. The couple was attracted to the original exposed brick and 12-foot raw-wood ceilings, kitchen cabinets made of…