Last Sunday Jean, Becky and I visited Bklyn Designs, the annual showcase at St. Ann’s Warehouse for local designers and craftspeople. There were upholsterers, woodworkers, carpet makers, and metalsmiths there, all showing off the beautiful ...
Now I understand why power tools are called power tools: because they make the person using them feel powerful. This weekend I installed brackets and rods for new curtains in my living room, something I’d ...
I’m a huge fan of reusing building materials. When I worked in high end residential architecture, it always bothered me that perfectly good items got carted away with the other demolition trash. In my own ...
This apartment would benefit from a soft, bright palette of materials to keep the rooms, which receive most of their light from the back windows, light and airy. I would start by painting the walls ...
Since none of the finishes or fixtures in the apartment are worth saving and the layout is somewhat awkward, without a real kitchen or closet space, the best strategy is to gut the interior and ...
Here’s a space that needs some sweetening. This one bedroom prewar apartment is on Clinton Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The building is located brilliantly, on a lovely residential block close to the subway station, ...
I know for those of you who have not worked with many contractors before, it’s hard to believe me when I tell you this. But a contractor who texts and emails is in fact a ...
My old boss used to say that for every project an architect has three equally-important priorities: cost, quality and schedule. As I began my remodel, maybe because of my background in design, quality seemed paramount. ...
Architects tend to be perfectionists and also indecisive, which is a dangerous combination. In the architecture offices where I worked I spent hours locked in conference rooms with colleagues agonizing about the height of a ...
Overwhelmingly, contractors answer “no” to the above question ( only 27% of contractors currently have a functional web site, from this book ). We know they have vans, vans and more vans. But how useful ...
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