You’ve all seen the sketchbook that I created for the Art House Co-op’s annual program to be catalogued in the Brooklyn Art Library. If you missed that project, you can see it here. The latest, more exciting news on this is that my very creative daughter, Alex, also created a sketchbook. She sent me a few images of it recently and I was blown away. It is stunning! Before I share the photos, here’s what Alex had to say about…
Written by Joel Sauer When we purchased our “new” home earlier this year, it had sat empty for nearly five years. Unfortunately one of the casualties of this vacancy was the hot-water radiator heaters. …
It’s a common question after we rattle on about the house with someone new. Almost everyone says, “What’s the basement like?” knowing full well that basements in 100-year-old homes are often a little sketchy.…
Somewhere along the line, I thought it would be fun to recreate my Taylor Street (Wisconsin) youth and get a claw foot tub for the master bathroom. I think it was when we realized…
As I sort through pictures for other blogs, I’m stumbling across a few that are worth sharing, but not necessarily in their own blog. So here’s a mish mash of pictures for you to…
All of the following pictures could technically have been placed in one of the ‘Progress’ blogs, but I thought they deserved their own space. ‘Shiny’ presents an alarming contrast to the soot-covered, 100-year-old wall…
Perhaps to the naked eye things are still a serious mess, but the truth is, we’ve made some pretty dramatic progress these past couple of weeks. A few pictures to bring you up to…
From this day forward I will never underestimate the skill of a general contractor. “Sure,” Joel and I said, “we’ll be our own GCs and manage this restoration process.” It started out with what…
Joel was vacuuming the future master bathroom very thoroughly, meaning really getting into the open plaster areas to get out as much debris as possible. (Joel LOVES to vacuum!) He noticed something red in…
As Joel wrote in the previous blog, we spend a lot of time trying to sort out how the house was built initially as well as what was added when by whom and why.…
