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Category Archives: Big Renovation
shaker doors & tung oiled floors
In many ways, our renovated apartment doesn’t look hugely different from the dumpy place we bought. Â Except, um, it’s not dumpy anymore. Â The layout didn’t change much on the parlor floor. Â The living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen and bath all exist in their original footprints. Â We liked the layout on this floor and opted [...]
Posted in Big Renovation Tagged brownstone renovation, decor, diy project, heartpine floors, shaker doors 2 Comments
Outhouse chic bathroom
The outhouse chic bathroom is still a work in progress. Â But I’m loving my long soaks in the vintage claw foot tub. Â The reproduction shower set came from Vintage Tub & Bath and it works great.
The reclaimed mushroom wood wainscoting will get a second coat of milk paint to calm it down a [...]
Also posted in Small Projects Tagged bathroom, diy painting, diy project, mushroom wood, mushroom wood wainscoting, outhouse bathroom, vintage clawfoot tub, wainscoting 5 Comments
It’s great to be home
We are all settled in to our newly renovated kitchen.  It is great to be back in our home, but the to-do list is long and the bills are daunting.  Forgive the blog silence, but Scott and I have been busy traveling, unpacking & DIY’ing.
Here’s our kitchen to-do list that we hope to complete by [...]
Move in Day!!!!
Scott and I have packed up the art studio where we’ve been living for the past three and a half months and we are moving back to the brownstone tomorrow morning!!!
While the project was fast by renovation standards, it felt like a long time for us to be out of our home. We are thrilled [...]
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Kitchen Renovation Update
This is just a quick update on the kitchen. Â The open shelves that I designed and Marcello built are now hung above the shallow cabinets in our galley kitchen. Â We opted for shelves instead of cabinets on this wall to keep the space as open as possible. Â Â We are on the hunt for the right [...]
Master Bedroom Progress
Our master bedroom suite is on the garden level of the brownstone, so it is one floor down from our main living space on the parlor floor. Â When we bought the apartment, the garden level was a large recroom with a miniature and nightmarish bathroom that was “renovated” by the previous owner’s brother. Â The mudroom [...]
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Shades of Gray
I’m sitting in our backyard listening to the screeching whirl of a saw ripping eight inch poplar baseboards and watching tiny furled fronds push their way up through the soggy soil. I can imagine that the ferns are curling their way out of the ground as I write this. Â There was no evidence of the [...]
Working toilet in the master bath!
Anyone who has lived through a renovation knows that it’s an exciting day when your new toilet gets installed and you hear the sweet sound of a low-flow flush. Â It was a big week at our brownstone construction site with lots of progress made. Â The tiler, plumber and electrician were working overtime. Â Both bathrooms and [...]
Posted in Big Renovation Tagged bathroom, brownstone renovation, master bath renovation, subway tile 6 Comments
Kitchen Cabinet Installation
Here’s a sneak peak of our kitchen cabinets, which were installed today. Â There was a whole lot of sawing, planing and shimming going on because there are few right angles in our brownstone kitchen, despite our contractor’s valiant efforts. Â The house was built in the 1890’s and there has been quite a bit of [...]
Posted in Big Renovation Tagged brownstone renovation, kitchen, kitchen renovation, white shaker cabinets 6 Comments
Project: DIY pot rack