Tag Archives: brownstone renovation

Backyard after planting (2009)

Backyard Before & After

By ADD | Published: August 16, 2010
If you stopped by the blog on Friday, you know that my Dad was in town for the weekend.  We didn’t make it to the flea market because I was a little under the weather, but Dad and I visited the farmers market Saturday morning and we had a casual dinner in the backyard that [...]
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Photo: ©Moya Mc Allister

Your Kitchen Questions Answered

By ADD | Published: July 19, 2010
Some of you may remember that Scott and I recently completed our galley kitchen renovation, replete with hand-finished floors (which I goofed and still have to repair) and a DIY pot rack.  It was featured on Apartment Therapy and  in a guest post on BrooklynLimestone, but if you missed that, you can catch all of [...]
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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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diywithadd choosing paint colors brownstone renovation

Do what I say, not what I did: painting

By ADD | Published: July 14, 2010
I just got this hot paint tip from Leila of design blog In the Weeds. She responded to my post detailing my haphazard and last minute paint color selections.  Leila says, “ You can also order (for FREE!) bigger color sheets from Benjamin Moore. Go on the Architect/Designer section of the website and you can order a slew [...]
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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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Scott's been busy downstairs sawing, drilling, planing, and priming.

Master Bedroom/ DIY workshop

By ADD | Published: May 13, 2010
I’ve been getting requests from my loyal readers, like Barnaby- thanks for following Barnaby!, for the delinquent pix of our garden level master bedroom, which I previously posted about here.  We are moving in to that bedroom this Sunday night and until then, it’s ground zero for all sorts of messy DIY projects.  Custom book [...]
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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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