apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Looks fantastic! Good luck with everything. Thinking good thoughts...

You guys are so cute!

Congrats! It does feel great to finally get to enjoy the fruits of your labor (no pun intended!)
And thanks for sharing everything along the way. I am curious how much the skim coating cost for two large rooms. I'd love to have smooth walls for once in NYC...

Yay for you guys! So nice to see such an upbeat attitude. I hope I can channel your good spirits during my own renovation.

Love those curtains - so simple and elegant
I think I'm heading to PB this weekend to pick up a pair for my bedroom

Great work, everything looks fabulous.
All the best

i half expected that last shot to be photographic proof that SK only had a teensy sip of champagne, and not the breakfast shot you went with instead.

Looks fantastic, especially SKGR, who does NOT look 9 months pregnant!

Congratulations!

Lookin' great! So cozy and so airy at the same time.

I love those white curtains, and would get them myself if the cats didn't swing on them like Tarzan.

I am writing in from Bombay. A friend of mine wrote to me that someone is blogging their moving process to a renovated small space. I am happy to know that people on the other side of the ocean too live in small spaces. Otherwise we know americans as having huge spaces 2500 sq. feet or more for a family of 4, 2-3 cars, vacation homes, multiple gadgets - music system, tv for every member in the family. But the house sits near one of the most expensive places in the city with celebrities as next door neighbours .

may be the cool neighbourhood and its facilities makes up for the small space at home or is there other space for storage or a 2nd home ?

Good luck with the new family and the new home. Good tidings of joy and peace.

Everything is clean, fresh and the colors you have chosen will always feel clean. It looks lovely in photos and I'm sure it's even better in person. I can see a home-made mobile hanging over the baby station, something with a splash of vivid color, but not the traditional "baby" mobile, something artistic, serving two purposes. Orgami swans made out of colorful wrapping paper comes to mind. Wishing you much happiness in your new abode with your baby.

Congratulations! It's looking very homey. And your wife looks so beauitful!

Very nice. I like the Elfa shelves! I would love to see some larger room shots though, to get a better sense of the apartment as a whole.

You can't beat celebrating with some good Indian takeout! Enjoy and get lots of sleep while you can!

Lookin' nice and cozy. Good job.

chamagpne and indian food, yummy...

so cute! i've been thinking about putting up simple curtains in our bedroom since a new neighbor moved in next door and these photos are really inspiring. i'm usually a firm no-curtain, blinds only person but these look really nice. i love reading these 9-month cure updates.

omg we totally drink the same milk

Apartment looks spectacular. Congratulations.

Since you're such big Apple fans, you might consider getting an airport express. I have my cable modem and airport express in a bedroom closet with my HP fax-scanner-printer, so wherever I am in the apartment I can print wirelessly, without having a big ugly printer on my desk.

For others considering stereo options and who haven't bought the Apple stereo, I purchased an Accurian amp from Radio Shack -- they knew exactly what I needed. It's now in this "media closet." It's connected to the airport express with an rca cable. I'm on the top floor of a Park Slope brownstone, so I was able to run the wiring for the speakers through the crawl space down to the living room, where the speakers from my old stereo are now hanging. The amp only cost about $145. The wiring was about $15. The other option is to run the wiring along the picture molding. I've read some people are using this systems to wire more than one room via multiple airport express' ( I only have a one-bedroom so this works fine for me), and that starts to get prohibitively expensive.

when is the kitchen going in, by the way?

luv it! luv it! luv it! Hope there's some time for snuggling and looking at the baby's clothes. So sweet.

looks great. Like everyone else, I'd love to see the final result.

Eddie, can I email you some questions about hooking up wireless Apple machines? you sound like someone I should know...

I hate to be the lone naysayer, but you have about 7-8 mos of the changing table under the shelves before the baby starts to pull up/try to grab things, etc. We have a Flensted mobile above our 15-mo-olds' changing table & that alone (no shelves) is enough for him to refuse to lay down sometimes. Before he could even stand alone it was enough to make him squirmy. Its counterintuitive, isn't it? You'd think they'd like to lie still & look at what's dangling above, but, sigh, they outsmart you every time.

Diana,

Sure. How does that work, do I have to log in or something for you to be able to email me? It's probably unwise to post my email address.

eddie

everything looks fab (including skgr)!

quick question about the nurseryworks rocker pads -- is that so that the rocker doesn't slide around as much on hardwoods?

we just got the same one (in choc w/dark pine) and i love it but it does slide around a bit on the hardwoods. i would also recommend a nursing stool (makes the rocker the perfect spot for me, and it's also cheap and very small) if skgr is so inclined.

best of luck with everything!!

Looks great! You guys must be relieved.

I think with a small space and a baby, they'll adapt every few months. I know everyone is quick to tell them what won't work down the road (bassinet, etc) but they look set to be happy til spring.

I think it is very appropriate that you are both nesting now, so many women will tell you about how they spent their last few days of pregnancy doing crazy things like washing walls or cleaning grout with a q-tip. I myself spent my last day of pregnancy (nineteen months ago yesterday in fact) schelping back and forth to Gracious Home because I had to have a shiny, new toilet seat, I had to, nothing was going to stop me. It seems so funny now, but it was so important that day but one day later, nothing seemed important except that little, pink baby.

p.s. I hope you will share your vendors and contrators, I would really, really like to know who put your tile in.

mmm.... Baluchi's.....

It all looks so lovely and fresh and modern. And it will mean even more joy for you two, to bring the newest New Yorker home to such a finely feathered nest. Many blessings!

It does look lovely and fresh, but what really caught my eye was that monkey print. I hope there is a good spot picked out for it to live! Where did you find it?

This is looking great, and your happiness radiates from your post and the pictures! Congratulations! In so many ways!!!

Anne,

The print was painted for me by Maxwell, based on something he saw in a shop, but that wasn't for sale. He did two actually - the other is an octapus, which hangs above our new rocking chair. The monkey is near our little baby basket.

Aww, you're so lucky to have such a talented guy around! I was hoping that there were more, I bet the octopus is awesome too!

Looks like it's gonna a very lucky and happy baby. The place is looking really good.

Eddie, you can just email me at: dajarvis@earthlink.net
thanks-- I have an apple Imac with a dial-up phone line, but I'm going to be switching to highspeed internet access at some point, and that's when knowing the kind of things you seem to know becomes important.

Wonderful that you're back in there just in time and things are looking so sweet. You must feel so great about that. What's the status of the kitchen (pic update, please!)or are you waiting on some stuff?