A happy home in a Brooklyn brownstone
Anyone who knows me knows I’m a social butterfly so it was important to me that we had a good guest suite set up for regular international guests. The room we had designated for the guest room runs off the kitchen floor and was larger than the other rooms. We didn’t need to do too…
Like a lot of the house minimal and sometimes strange maintenance decisions had been made in the house. The ground floor for example had been hand dabbed in uneven plaster to cover where the wallpaper had been damaged and the floor was covered in cheap 80s tile. Here we can see the kind of surprise…
The bedroom that was to become our Master bedroom looked like it was in okay shape after the windows were replaced but the closet doors, mouldings and lights all needed to be redone. The floors were a recent addition and other than a couple of light switches there wasn’t a lot of major reconstruction. Being…
We are lucky enough to have a basement under the ground floor which is a luxury of space not afforded to most in NYC. A number of people have commented it’s large enough to be its own rental but since we are project hobbyists and frequent DIYers we opted for more space over more money….
Between the guest room and the dining room was a large walk in closet with a wall in the middle. Since the guest room already had two other closets this space seemed better suited as a walk through pantry. First we gutted the space and removed the dividing wall. There were already doors at either…
The kitchen was going to be one of the largest projects in the renovation with wall changes, plumbing reroutes, new floors and cabinets the works. This meant replenishing our cash reserves after the last one and mostly what you’re looking at is my annual bonus turned into physical things. ;o) Firstly it was important…
Our Brownstone is old enough to have been designed for servant’s quarters which made for awesomely easy partitioning of the rental floor but means that actually they have the main kitchen for the house. Victorian bedrooms were often created with a matched sitting room attached to the main bed chamber and all the bedrooms in…
Lifegoal achieved: Landlords. Here you can see the delightful professional shots made by Corcoran to advertise the apartment. Bathroom we’ve already seen, but here’s more of the main open plan kitchen / dining / living space Under the deck there’s an open terrace space for the rental leading into the backyard. The kitchen looks so…
One good bathroom deserves another! We completely rehauled the bathroom including new pipes and walls so we were able to start fresh! We started with moving the shower frame to the end of the room, this gave us a lot more room to play with for the toilet and sink area and made a lot…
Last post we showed the process of demolishing the bathroom back to the studs. Once we had the floor and walls away we were able to replace a lot of the underlying infrastructure – new pipes, new wiring and the ability to move the main structures in the room. Here you can see where we’ve…