Tag Archives: before and after

Design Idea: Microwave Cubby

By ADD | Published: August 23, 2010
Whether you’re planning a big budget kitchen renovation or a small budget kitchen upgrade, it’s the little details that matter.  One detail we took into account was the microwave.  Since we hardly ever use it, and since microwaves aren’t sexy, we didn’t want it to be front and center in our kitchen.  We definitely didn’t want [...]
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The Hunt: Junkyard Chic

By ADD | Published: August 17, 2010
I don’t have any pretty photos today, so I’m just going to show you some quick pix of my latest junkyard find.  I bought this solid wood vintage medicine cabinet with original beveled mirror ($60) on a recent Brooklyn thrift store junket and quickly sprayed it white so that I could hang it over my [...]
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a very bare dining room after renovation

decorate my dining room, pretty please

By ADD | Published: July 16, 2010
Readers, please help this wayward blogger.  Renovation of the dining room on the parlor floor of our brownstone apartment is DONE.  But as you can see, this naked room is crying out for decor.  And a mop, but that’s a story for another post.  I thought I would decorate the minute we moved back in, [...]
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The new shower.

Bathroom Renovation Revisted

By ADD | Published: July 13, 2010
It’s been two months now since the major renovation was completed and I needed a little “recovery” time before revisiting the construction photos.  Even though our renovation was thoughtfully planned and quickly executed (by an allstar contractor),  it was still traumatic.  Renovation is generally a tough process for many reasons, amongst them:  It displaces the [...]
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Less is more in our compact kitchen

By ADD | Published: July 1, 2010
I’m not a kitchen designer, but I play one on my blog diywithadd.  I’m excited to guest post on brooklynlimestone because Stefanie’s blog was an inspiration to me when I was planning my own renovation, especially the photos of her gorgeous kitchen.  Like many a would-be Renovationista, my kitchen dreams were constrained by some serious space [...]
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Master Bedroom Inhabited

By ADD | Published: June 22, 2010
Scott and I are having sweet dreams now that we’ve moved into our garden level master bedroom.  The room is delightfully cool in summer because it’s at ground level and the three windows look out onto our quiet, shady little garden. Before we renovated, the lower level was a 400 square foot rec room with a [...]
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Our "new" sofa. Photo: ©Moya Mc Allister

Granny’s Sofa Gets A Facelift

By ADD | Published: June 2, 2010
Two years ago, when Scott and I married and bought our apartment, neither of us had a sofa that was worth the back ache of moving, so we immediately started shopping for a comfortable, quality, down-stuffed sofa for our living room that would last for years to come.   After test driving snazzy sofas at [...]
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AFTER shot of DIY radiator cover/window seat

Project: DIY Radiator Covers

By ADD | Published: May 14, 2010
Over the past year, Scott and I have become quite the design/build team.  We’ve made decorative mantels, built-in bookshelves, pot racks, radiator covers… everything an obsessively designed home could need.   Typically I design the item & source materials.  Scott saws, drills and and assembles with the power tools in his basement arsenal.  Then I [...]
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Master bath renovation. ©Moya Mc Allister

Master Bath: From Blah to Ooh-la-la

By ADD | Published: May 12, 2010
Let me start by saying that Scott is right about 95% of the time in renovation matters, which is far better than my track record.  But when it came to the master bath, he insisted on white walls above our white subway tile and he refused to listen to my nagging voice of reason for [...]
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New Kitchen

It’s great to be home

By ADD | Published: April 29, 2010
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 [...]
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