Category: Kenmore Place
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I hate my house. But I shouldn't. I spent the last twenty years enamored with modern design and architecture. I ran a modern design shop, worked for a modern furniture store, grew a huge modern design library (and moved it multiple times), read every magazine (I miss Echoes), read every blog and haunted every real…
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So much for taking it easy this weekend…I woke up wanting to get this corner of the “Wedding Cake” room done. This will be Viv’s bedroom, so some cuteness is in order. The wall decal is the same one I installed in her nursery at Wildwood the week she was born. I was so sad…
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AFTER: The painting has made a huge difference. The upstairs hall, staircase and “wedding cake” room are now clean and bright. It would have taken us months to just do the trim; it was worth hiring a crew to get it done. The upstairs moldings and window frames are all Natural Cream. Each room’s trim…
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Someone forgot to tell me our block is a flag block. Augie, our 80-something neighbor, was putting out a large porch flag at 6 this morning. By the time I finished my coffee, two rows of matching little yard flags had marched down his front walk. We are woefully unprepared. Do gas line flags count?…
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(Left) BEFORE : mauve baseboard trim, pink walls (Right) AFTER: cream and clean It is subtle in a photo, but makes a huge impact in person. Painting the stringer (the previously mauve stairway baseboard) and the walls my favorite putty-cream color (Benajmin Moore Natural Cream) makes the stairwell and hallway feel clean and bright. Like…
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Finally, a painter who isn’t a flake! Two rooms painted and it feels like real progress; until I see that there are 8 rooms more to go. I wonder if I can keep the painters on a rain day retainer?
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It’s potato salad season….tonight’s with fresh chives and Italian parsley from our first Highcross Farm CSA box full of fresh grown goodies. Now, what to do with this giant mystery thing growing on the side of the house? I think it’s a rhubarb out of control. Posted with Blogsy
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BEFORE. Basement steps, entry landing and upstairs "Wedding Cake" bedroom(s). AFTER. The carpet is in! And the old linoleum, probably asbestos-backed, is out. I hate to think of Viv crawling on that nasty indoor-outdoor carpet that was in the upstairs bedrooms. The new carpet is so soft (wool!) and not… gross. The plan is still…
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Working in order of smallest to largest, we have now completed exactly two rooms of the house: the closet in the guest room and the back entry hall. Wait, the light fixture isn't up yet in the hall, so scratch that. One room, we have completed exactly one room. We moved in a year ago…
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Another piece of furniture made it's way in to my house today. This time, it's a Rossetto family piece. Paulie's Aunt Margee's great some one or another's dresser. Rocky refinished it with a gentle touch; the wood is beautiful. He replaced the hardware too—buying just one knob at a time at Menards because they were…
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