This post is in partnership with Article, who generously provided the featured furniture! Remember how we all just lived through a pandemic that forced us to stay in our homes by ourselves all the time? What a time to be alive. For many people, this aspect of the pandemic was a waking nightmare or, at least, a big adjustment. For me, it wasn’t all that different from regular life—I’m usually either working from home or out at a job site; I’m used to spending a fair amount of time alo...| Daniel Kanter
I get asked about my kitchen…kind of a lot. It’s been so long since it’s made an appearance on the blog that I understand why you’d think it must be done by now, and I’m just holding out on you. Don’t you know I require way too much attention to secretly renovate my kitchen without shouting at the whole internet about it? We’ll work on these trust issues later. My kitchen has been a real saga over these past seven years—going from hazmat zone to pretty nicely and inexpensivel...| Daniel Kanter
Let’s talk about the next room in this riveting limited series where we tour every room in my house, 7 years into the renovation. Today—the dining room! One of the several reasons I fell in love with this house was all of the natural light flooding in from the many large old windows, but the dining room was an exception. A large (old, but heavily altered) addition blocked a lot of light from that window in the photo above, and the same addition had resulted in the loss of one of the three...| Daniel Kanter
I gotta pick up the damn pace on these posts! Let’s talk about my living room, which has undergone some recent changes to celebrate 7 years in this kooky house! It’s #2 on the plan above so you can stay oriented. We covered the hallway (#1) and half-bath (#9) a few weeks ago! Here she is when I first bought the house! Acoustic tile drop ceiling, crazy pattern on all the walls, exposed radiator lines that ran in front of the original molding—take it all in. Ah, memories. Here we are toda...| Daniel Kanter