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Our House Is On The Mount Morris Park House Tour This Sunday 6 Jun 2013 | 07:21 pm
I know this is a bit late to be posting this, but if you’ve been reading this blog and want to see our end result, our house will be on the Mount Morris Park Annual House Tour this Sunday, June … Cont...
Do You Know Anyone Who Finished Renos In 2012? 17 Jan 2013 | 03:57 am
Yesterday was the day that the Department of Finance released the tentative property tax valuations for the coming year. Our valuation went from $333K to $1.91M. That means our property taxes are goin...
Hot Air Doesn’t Always Rise 2 Nov 2012 | 06:30 pm
When we were designing the house I wanted a recirculating duct from the living room on the parlor floor to the bulkhead 4 flights up. I figured in the winter we could pull the hot air from the top of ...
Electric Bills For Townhouse vs. Apartment 23 Oct 2012 | 11:20 pm
This is a blog post I’ll update as time goes on… But I’ve been wondering how much our utility costs would go up once we moved into a house. Here are the baseline numbers for electrical usage in our ol...
I Was “Outed” Last Week… 22 Oct 2012 | 09:44 pm
Gay men (especially those who are fairly masculine and can pass for straight) are somewhat used to dealing with being “outed”. I deal with it by being open and honest with people – in that case I can ...
I Got To Clean My Own Car 29 Jul 2012 | 12:12 am
It may seem odd to people who live outside New York, but New Yorkers don’t really get to wash their own cars. We live in apartment buildings and there’s no hoses or extension cords to do the job with....
Modern Efficient Water Heaters Are Fragile 26 Jul 2012 | 11:25 pm
Our hot water went out earlier this week. The cause? The boiler room was dirty. Seriously… Old style water heaters just sat there. Their exhaust was hot, so it rose up the chimney without any effort....
Townhouse Shells South of 125 Are Now $850K & Up 17 Jul 2012 | 11:50 pm
For a while now I’ve seen the market going up. Clients come to me and want a $500-600K shell south of 125th Street, and there’s just nothing I can do for them. I finally got around to pulling the comp...
Texas Purple Japanese Wisteria Grows Incredibly Fast 17 Jul 2012 | 10:38 pm
One of the concepts we designed the back of the house around was a porch/pergola with wisteria growing on it. Wisteria have a reputation of taking years to get established and bloom, so we wanted to g...
Low Water Pressure => Booster Pump 13 Jun 2012 | 06:18 am
When we moved in 6 weeks ago we noticed a few things that indicated problems with our water pressure. The flushometer (tankless) toilets didn’t always flush properly and the massage setting on our sho...
