A happy home in a Brooklyn brownstone
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…
The top floor bathroom was a real DIY mess; bright blue 70s paint was dabbed with less than what you might call care. New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos On top of that the previous owner’s obsession with partitions was most obvious in this room. Pieces of furniture had been laid with…
When we bought the house there was a covered patio jutting out of the ground floor. It was built cheaply and while it offered some protection from the cold during Winter it wasn’t a pleasant place to sit. New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos Since we knew that we wanted to make…
One day I asked Scott to close the windows and he said he already had. At that point we realised the windows were not going to cut it through the cold New York winter. New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos We were going to need double glazed windows with better seals if…
Part of my daily routine includes a bath, every day that I have time for it. It gives me time to wake up, mentally prepare for my day and stare blankly at my feet mentally processing. It’s where I get my best ideas and I credit a return to regular bathtime as one of the…
The intention with the downstairs kitchen was to modernise as quickly and reasonably priced as we could. We wanted to retain the Victorian charm while still keeping something that would appeal to the local rental market. New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos The old 1970s design choices had made the room seem…
As HGTV will tell you, demolition day is best day! Only we took about 3 weeks … There was plenty of sketchy DIY renovations that could be removed before the contractors showed up. New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos Rental Dining – Demolition New photo by Amaya Booker (Illdrinn) / Google Photos…