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i love the floors and the wall color!

Lovely home, and I envy you for that floor! I've never gotten the thing about propping mirrors against the wall, though. They reflect upwards, and give a disturbing funhouse mirror effect to the room.

That unit you are using for books is fabulous. Is it from an old store?

very handsome

ooohhh ... this is so nice. lovely lived-in feeling.

I love that round table! Anyone know where it is from?

Would love to read this...if only the damn M&M's pop up advertisement would close. Grrrr.

it's good to be rich.

Kind of off topic, but wow, she's 56? I thought she was in her 30s at first glance.

duckumu - you obviously didn't read the story or you wouldn't have made such an inappropriate/incorrect comment!

Those floors. Wow - wonderful!

Great story and fabulous house!!
You should be proud.
thanks for sharing.

aaron... check the average price of a brownstone in fort greene and get back to me. it's a lovely house and she did a great job, and i commend the repurposing of a lot of materials, but it's not hard to make a beautiful space when you're living in a gorgeous $2 million townhouse with intact period details.

again, beautiful house, but like 90% of the stuff that gets posted here these days, it just makes me feel like crap because i'll never afford any of it. :)

Wow! What a lovely house.

And the bookcase! Divine!

duckumu- once again, read the story. The house cost $350k and they put $300k worth of work into it. Not chump change, but not $2mil either.

The house had virtually no period details when they moved in and was missing most of its windows. It had been a crackhouse and they brought it back to life, mostly with elbow grease and savvy finds. This is all in the article.

Like so many of the subject of of these NY Times articles--which I find are usually absurdly stupid--these people bought in the 90's. They paid 350K and spend another 350K renovating and did most of the work themselves. So they only spent 700K--which is a lot in the real world, but obviosuly not in NYC. Nonethelss duckumu is correct that today the house would be worth over 1.8M--or at least it was not too long ago.

Look at these amazing floors... They remind me of a cottage by the lake... especially with the blue walls,
(so lake-ish!) I love how old charm can still be clean-looking, and not like an old dusty attic!

Thank you for letting me post a comment,
Melissa with Yourfurniturelink and Mortise & Tenon LA

ok, i stand corrected. and i'm still utterly jealous of this couple.

looove this home! love all the weathered textures and the light flowing through. i agree that the mirror is not best served propped like that... the details and the colors are also very soothing and warm

What color paint would you say that is on the wall? Can anyone suggest a paint color that looks like the one in the photo? Much thanks...

Hey, JH4285, 50 doesn't mean dead or boring.

(I'm 50.)

Hey, I encourage everybody to read the whole article. Yes, the pictures are beautiful, but the story is beautiful too. The owners' invested in this property as their residence when it could have easily landed in the clutches of a professional flipper, and did an excellent rehabilitation utilizing their own sweat equity and the limited remaining historic materials. The result is beautiful, entirely appropriate to the historic character of the building, and definitely shows the love this family has for their dwelling. And the pictures also show a real family living in a real house, dog bowls and air purifier included!

Do you know how long it's been since boards were milled that wide? Long, long, lo-o-ong time! OMG, what a floor. I have to go back and look at the rest, cause all I saw was the floor. If you have to camp out on it in sleeping bags, do it to keep that flat.

Forestdweller - I wasn't commenting on the decor sense if that's what you mean. Apologies if you took it that way. The Times article features a picture of the homeowner and I was just surprised to read her corresponding age.

i want i want

I could not possibly love that floor more. That is my dream floor.

i think this apartment is very pretty and presentable.

Lovely job--floors are perfect. Love the interesting neutrals, furniture choices, open feeling, livability, gorgeous light. For the critics, a little perspective: my homespun, hippie, working class aunt and uncle bought their very rundown B'klyn brownstone in the early '80s for something ridiculous like $60k. The house had great bones, but was basically trashed. My aunt was in the eighth month of her first pregnancy, and she did much of the tear down herself (imagine hugely pregnant, 4' 11" redhead in pigtails swinging a sledgehammer). Since then, the house has always been "in project." They only redid the dangerously rickety death trap of a deck last year. So yes, their house is now worth 1.5 million, but it's been nearly 30 years of work getting it to the point where this is so.

Their are still places in new york where you can get a great deal on a town house. you just have to have balls and vision and grit. When these people moved into their townhouse in the 90s frt green was certainly not what it is today So shut up, quit being a hater and get your affairs in order before you throw stones. lovely home. Thanks for posting.

I'm in love with the large leaning mirror- any idea where that was from? Or something similar?

Deeg33: I got mine at BoConcept ($599 I think). It is huge and VERY f-ing heavy! But Ikea makes a small much more affordable one for around $100.

deeg33: IKEA sells a very similar mirror (it may actually be the same one):
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/00081591

OMG I love your home... fabulous. let me know if you want to rent a room... lol

The floors! I want those floors!

... and it's not so much the fan-freakin-tastic floors as it is all the other choices you made that compliment them so perfectly.

You're my hero.