Welcome to our double issue to celebrate the long holiday weekend! Below, you will find posts that represent our greatest home renovation hits featuring some of our readers’ most favorite kitchen, bathroom, and entire home renos on our blog and on Instagram. Each homeowner came to Sweeten for help and after the project was complete took the time to share their […]
When they began looking for more space, Chelsea residents Lauren and Ross didn’t want to move far from their Manhattan neighborhood. Luckily, they found a new home in Kensington House, an Art Deco co-op building just three blocks from their old place. The two-bed, two-bath apartment featured plentiful space for entertaining—a must for Lauren, a […]
An awkward space turns sanctuary with a few simple ideas When a long apartment search finally ended, Victoria’s Secret designer Christine Yao returned to one of the first listings already crossed off her list. It was the one she ultimately closed on, and she was happy with her new home—except for her bathroom which felt like […]
After spending many years patching up a rental they lived in together, two architects decided to purchase their very own fixer-upper on the top floor of an 1890s brownstone on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. One may wonder whether Kate Meagher and Arthur Liu had the same basic questions as non-design pros when it came to budget calculations, […]
Painting a home’s interior can be a simple project—or a sophisticated one—with final costs varying from home to home Chances are pretty good that you’ve painted your walls before. Interior painting is a project that many are willing to tackle solo, and the prospect of a DIY job can be tempting given that the outlay is […]
We try not to play renovation favorites here at Sweeten – we love seeing people create spaces they love in every form. But it’s hard not to be a bit biased when folks from the Clinton Hill Co-ops come calling: we’ve matched more than a dozen homeowners throughout this neighborhood’s twelve towers with local contractors […]
This week, we ventured just a ways up the street from Sweeten’s NYC headquarters to the East Village for a tour of a gut-renovated one bed, one bath co-op. This place was — to use the technical term — a disaster. As the apartment’s new owner, Henry, was clear to note in his Sweeten project post, […]
This week, we took a swing through Park Slope for a tour of a boom-era New York bathroom that had understandably gone bust in the intervening, oh, 80 or so years. Elinor and Joel lived with the bathroom’s pros and cons and got to know it’s fickle personality well before posting their project on Sweeten, so they were […]
Erica and Donna moved into their two-bedroom home — a former kindergarten classroom in a converted South Slope / Greenwood Heights Catholic school — four years ago. High ceilings, check. Big windows, check. Modern urban oasis, check. Erica, who works for the City of New York, and Donna, a digital product consultant, were initially drawn […]
“The project needed a high level of skill and creative thinking to accomplish what looks quite simple. We created a truly wonderful interior environment with high-end finishes that the client completely loves.” -Bob Reid, tS member & owner of ReidBuild This week we’re on Madison Ave. with new tS member ReidBuild, for a close up look at […]
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