Design

One of my favorite rooms in our new loft is finally done.  Well, probably not truly done –the art and accessories will continue to evolve– but finished enough to show you.  It’s our den, a dark, loungy space where we curl up to watch TV and videos (Wonderpets and Yo Gabba Gabba are in heavy [...]

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Thank you for all of your emails and comments about our dining chair dilemma. I’ve bought chairs. In your emails and comments, the ones we finally chose had a solid following, but they weren’t the winners.  Overall, your favorites were #4, the Finn Juhl chairs, and, on their own, they’re my favorites too.  If we [...]

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Our new Manhattan loft is really coming together –construction is complete (including some finish work that seemed to drag on forever), and all of the furniture that we’d bought or reupholstered in in place.  We love it. Except the dining room. Individually, I like all of the furnishings.  The sideboard is a handsome vintage Gio [...]

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Too much?  I’ll admit it’s a little Last Days of Disco, but I hope in a good way. The powder room in our new loft was inoffensive but bland — a small windowless box with white walls, beige tile, a Corian sink and a toilet.  Our budget and schedule didn’t allow for extensive remodeling, but [...]

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It just happened one evening in July.  Julia announced that she wanted to sleep in her big girl bed, climbed right into it and never seemed to give her crib another thought.  Last week we gave Julia’s old crib to friends with a beautiful baby boy, and so her new big-girl room in our new [...]

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It’s probably our favorite room in our Southampton house.  With a dramatically pitched ceiling and windows on three sides, it’s a real beauty.  And we never used. it.  We planned and furnished it as a home office, but found ourselves (like most people, I think), working on our laptops in the kitchen, or on the [...]

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The bathroom was nice enough.  It was very large –especially by New York standards, and had a big window.  The glass tile left us cold, though.  I like icy blue in general, but paired with the gray floor and the plain white walls, it created a chilly atmosphere that got a little clinical edge from [...]

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Any day now Julia will be ready for her “big girl bed.”  It’s coming, and if it’s like her walking, talking and potty training, it’ll happen suddenly:  one evening she’ll just climb in and never look back. Feeling change in the air, this sentimental father took a few pictures of her room in Southampton today [...]

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The unpacking is done (mostly), and we’re starting to enjoy settling in.  Of course, I’m still focused on all that’s left to do –unfinished finishes, paint problems, scratched floors, wrinkled drapes, missing furniture.  When I put down the punch list, though, I realize that the place is starting to look pretty good –especially if I [...]

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