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Kingston House | Manhattan Nest
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All posts in: Kingston House. Found in the Wall! One of the cool things about living in an old house is the constant. That you might find something left behind intentionally or not by a previous occupant. Open up a wall and you might see century-old bank bonds or a pile of cash or gold bricks or a diamond ring or…ya know. We’ve seen the news stories. Some asshole goes a-renovatin’ and finds some shit worth more than the house itself. The whole thing is mortise-and-tenon’d together at the corners an...
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Repairs, Painting, and Tree Day! | Manhattan Nest
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Repairs, Painting, and Tree Day! After we dealt with the necessary structural repairs, work on the exterior of the cottage kept moving right along! The weather has been cooperating beautifully, so there’ve been very few delays in work the past couple of weeks. If all of my projects moved at this pace, I wager I could renovate the state of New York by the time I’m 50? I pitched in a little bit by helping pull a bunch of the billion staples stuck everywhere! People go to various degrees of insanity when th...