It’s Monday, so gather the family around the tube for About the Folks! Today we present the fourth and final episode in our 4-part docuseries on my friend John’s 1723 stone house. Having walked through bedrooms, bathrooms, the kitchen, the living room—even the attic!—we’re circling back to the first floor to talk all about the amazing dining room, complete with reproduction woodwork, an epic hand-painted mural, and one of the most magnificent Dutch Kasten I’ve ever come across! A ...| Daniel Kanter
It’s Monday morning, and you know what that means!!! Or, wait, do you? This is still pretty new for all of us. The third episode of About the Folks is here for your viewing pleasure! In this episode we explore one of my favorite parts of any old house—the attic—and then head back downstairs to check out the living room and perhaps the most perfect kitchen of all time. If you’re confused about what this is or why I’m showing it to you, the answers you seek are right over here in this...| Daniel Kanter
Hello hello! It’s another release day! About the Folks Episode 2 has arrived! What is this? Let me tell you. About the Folks is a new semi-regular series wherein I force my friends to display their homes and sparkling personalities for the entire internet. The original idea was to do this in blog posts—relying mostly on photos and a brief video segment—but then my darling life-wife and comrade Juliet went ahead and made a 4-part docuseries because she is an extraordinary talent and a v...| Daniel Kanter
It’s today, it’s today! After many months of scheming and plotting and shooting and editing, Juliet and I are so excited to put this project out into the world. This is just the first of four episodes, in what I hope will be a regular series where you’ll get to know some really cool houses and the incredible owners behind them…who also happen to be my friends, since I like them and stuff. If you love the first episode, why wait for the second??! We’re exploring the bedrooms and bath...| Daniel Kanter
For years now, I’ve had this idea about doing something on my blog other than just talk about myself and whatever I’m doing. Enough about me*. Let’s dish about other people. (*I recognize I also owe you updates about me. life has been insane and I have a lot to tell you.) When I moved to Kingston in 2013, I had barely spent any time here and didn’t know a soul aside from my realtor and the lawyer I hired for closing on the house, neither of whom seemed super excited to be best frie...| Daniel Kanter
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
Some of you know this story so I’ll try to keep the history lesson brief: way back in 2015, I was hired to fix up a sweet funny little house in the woods that a couple friends of mine—Adriana and Barry—had recently purchased. This was intended to be a fairly straightforward undertaking—eliminate a weird half-bathroom, enlarge and replace the kitchen, plus various cosmetic updates throughout like new flooring and paint. Stuff like that. Make it simple and Scandinavian-inspired and read...| 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