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Hey, thanks for stopping by! So, some things about Renov8or...
I'm a writer and editor living in New York City. By day I spend my creative energies on the websites of various publishers, but my free time is spent doing home projects. I've renovated every home I've lived in, including rentals, and like... whoa, who does that?!
I live in most of my homes a few years before selling them. I'm not about flipping (and, anyway, here's why Flipping Is Nearly Impossible In New York). I don't sell just to make a profit; it's almost always because some fabulous new wreck has caught my eye and it's calling me to save it!
I'm currently on my fourth full-scale home renovation in the NYC area — this one a 1946 mid-century apartment — where I live with Mr. Renov8or and our cat, who photobombs a lot of my pics.
I started blogging about my renovations and home projects about 15 years ago, when I bought my first serious fixer-upper in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. A small 500 sq ft. apartment with a 400-sqare-foot back garden, it was a really amazing home that needed a complete overhaul, with kitchen and bath gutted down to the studs. That was my first taste of laying out a kitchen and bath design myself. I loved everything about the project, from planning to demo to builds to finishing. I was hooked!
You can read more about that home renovation here:
I'm a writer and editor living in New York City. By day I spend my creative energies on the websites of various publishers, but my free time is spent doing home projects. I've renovated every home I've lived in, including rentals, and like... whoa, who does that?!
I live in most of my homes a few years before selling them. I'm not about flipping (and, anyway, here's why Flipping Is Nearly Impossible In New York). I don't sell just to make a profit; it's almost always because some fabulous new wreck has caught my eye and it's calling me to save it!
I'm currently on my fourth full-scale home renovation in the NYC area — this one a 1946 mid-century apartment — where I live with Mr. Renov8or and our cat, who photobombs a lot of my pics.
I started blogging about my renovations and home projects about 15 years ago, when I bought my first serious fixer-upper in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. A small 500 sq ft. apartment with a 400-sqare-foot back garden, it was a really amazing home that needed a complete overhaul, with kitchen and bath gutted down to the studs. That was my first taste of laying out a kitchen and bath design myself. I loved everything about the project, from planning to demo to builds to finishing. I was hooked!
You can read more about that home renovation here:
- Brooklyn Garden Apartment: House Tour
- Brooklyn Garden Apartment: Kitchen Plan
- Brooklyn Garden Apartment: Kitchen Reveal
- Brooklyn Garden Apartment: Before & After
We did a gut renovation of the bathroom:
If you're here because you're planning to renovate or are in the middle of a project and have questions, leave a comment on the blog and I'll respond!
And a few years later, the kitchen:
Other projects I sometimes post about include:
Very informative, nice post, thanks for shareing
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