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The Renovated Living Room! | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2015/01/13/the-renovated-living-room
The Renovated Living Room! The thing about the newfound room was that its potential purpose was never immediately clear. There was always something kind of. About it…like it would be really long but not very wide, or wouldn’t have any windows, or there would be a two foot high step in the middle of the floor. After the excitement faded of just knowing the room existed, figuring out what to actually. You can see the predicament. I know. Cry me a river. What an obscenely ridiculous issue to have. Everythin...
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Look! We Have a Dining Room Again! | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2014/09/18/look-we-have-a-dining-room-again
We Have a Dining Room Again! We’re coming up on a year and a half in this house (insane, yes? K cool.), and even though I’m super proud of the progress that we’ve made in some ways, I feel like we’ve barely even scratched the surface in others! We started in the kitchen. Out of necessity, then I moved onto the little office. So I could teach myself some stuff before I had the opportunity to mess up the more important spaces, then I dove into the laundry room. Original moldings, old doors, old windows, al...
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Olivebridge Cottage: Oh Dear, Here We Go… | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2015/07/28/olivebridge-cottage-oh-dear-here-we-go
Olivebridge Cottage: Oh Dear, Here We Go…. We didn’t mess around, either. When we put on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. We built three 3-storey Roman houses, clad in faux-stone that yours truly crafted from foam insulation, which turned on enormous carousels to expose the backsides of the set during the second act. We were fast and loose and dumb and it’s amazing that nobody died. Know how to build things and it didn’t. The thing is, the insides of a house shouldn’t really remind y...
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Plans for Olivebridge Cottage! | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2015/06/29/plans-for-olivebridge-cottage
Plans for Olivebridge Cottage! Hey, remember that other house I’ve been working on? The one out in Olivebridge? That we called Olivebridge Cottage? For those nice sweet clients from the big city? That one that I wrote a blog post “introducing”. And then never spoke of again? Well, it’s done! PSYCH LOL. GOTCHA. Oh, Olivebridge Cottage. Spoiler: you are so much more than we bargained for. Like,. Last time I posted about the house. Is it even worth apologizing for my Sketch-Up renderings at this point?
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New Season, New Project! | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2015/04/20/new-season-new-project
New Season, New Project! This might be old news to some of you but it just happened in the past couple of weeks up in the Hudson Valley. I’ve been blissfully popping Claritin-D and huffing prescription nasal spray and I don’t even. About these sinus headaches because it’s finally warm and sunny and not horrible outside. You might be thinking to yourself: “since it’s finally warm, isn’t it high time Daniel got back to the cottage renovation? You’d be correct. This is a client gig and I am stoked. The budg...
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Black Garage! | Manhattan Nest
http://manhattan-nest.com/2015/07/08/black-garage
Ever since I got the idea in my head to paint my garage black, I haven’t really let go of it. As much as we. I love my black paint for all sorts of accent-y types of things, it’s not something I’d let loose on any and every house, but I have this whole. For mine. It involves the following: since my house is Greek Revival (or, ya know, Greek Revival-ish), the only color that really feels right for the house itself is white, right? Hot DAMN, look at that thing! Lookin’ pretty rough there, garage. More rece...
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