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The never ending search for a toilet continues. In restoring the original parlor bathroom, I’ve become obsessed with finding the perfect toilet. Specifically, finding what I consider to be the most appropriate toilet bowl shape. Yes I’m weird. Finally found what I was looking for! Not only that, but one of the owners of the salvage yard is a plumber and he walked us through the steps of vintage toilet x modern plumbing. - - - - - - - - - - #vintagetoilet #vintageolumbing #bathroomfixtutes #restoration #diy #plumbing #toilet

Grape vine getting a haircut today.

Lost & Found: the seedier days

Posted on March 27, 2014March 27, 2014 by Pink Bronwstone

We found this wedged in the back of a cabinet, in the garden level. Kinda funny, probably from the 80s.

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The never ending search for a toilet continues. In restoring the original parlor bathroom, I’ve become obsessed with finding the perfect toilet. Specifically, finding what I consider to be the most appropriate toilet bowl shape. Yes I’m weird. Finally found what I was looking for! Not only that, but one of the owners of the salvage yard is a plumber and he walked us through the steps of vintage toilet x modern plumbing. - - - - - - - - - - #vintagetoilet #vintageolumbing #bathroomfixtutes #restoration #diy #plumbing #toilet

Grape vine getting a haircut today.

This is a bit hard to see, but here is the original plan for our house showing the bathroom setup. You can even see the forced air vent. If you’re wondering if your brownstone started life as a single fam or 2 fam, one thing to look for is bathroom placement. Assuming you still have the original layout, a tiny bathroom tucked behind the stairs on the parlor and third floor is one marker. Single family homes would have had one bathroom on the bedroom floor (say the 3rd floor) and it would have been in the middle room. Another way to tell is if you have an unusually ornate mantel on the top floor front room. Rental units were usually the top floor of a 2-fam. Last but not least, you can do some research and look at deeds, newspaper ads and census records. All three routes come up positive for us: our house is an original 2-fam. #victorianbathroom #bathroomrestoration #originalfloorplan #restore #historicarchitecture #brooklyn #brownstone

Getting a jump on #52weeksofhome, #52weeksofhomeweek4 - Best and Worst features. There are a lot of things we love about our house and the fact that so much detail survived for 125 years in the fickle New York City housing and real estate market. Our house was a 3 family income property as early as 1910 and several of the features I chose had been obscured under layers of paint and shoddy upkeep. Photos 1-4 are some bits we love: the delicate plaster ceiling detail. Photo 2: the original stained glass windows, which had been partially covered by vinyl flashing. Photo 3: the original summer cover for the parlor fireplace. This was covered in many layers of orange and cream paint. Photo 4: etched glass detail from one of our pocket doors. This one separates our bedroom from the study. Now for the bad: photo 5 - scuttle ladder at the top of staircase. In a brownstone, the scuttle ladder, which provides access to the roof, is generally tucked away in a closet. Given our house’s history as a multi-fam rental, the ladder was moved to a “common area.” I hate this very much, since it completely takes away from the largely intact woodwork. And last but not least, photo 6: hands down the worst feature of our house is this hot mess of a bathroom. This room used to give me nightmares! It’s a barely functioning bathroom on our parlor floor, one that was slapped together with cheap materials and not much thought sometime in the early 90s. Eventually this will become part of our kitchen. We currently use the tub for storage, which is essentially the only think it’s good for. - - #victorian #brownstone #historicdetail #victorianarchitecture #oldhouse #architecturaldetailsandmillwork #loveyouroldhouse #nyc

Sunday Funday... this archeological dig is the spot of our original parlor bathroom. It will be pretty again, I swear! - - - - - - - #diy #restoration #victorian #brownstone #brooklyn #oldhouse #oldhouselove #fixit #hoiseproject #bathroom

House portrait. Still a few pink blemishes left, where she was incorrectly patched up over the years, but it’s nice to see the the actual stone. still going strong 125 years in. - - - - - - - - #52weeksofhome #52weeksofhomeweek3 #houseportrait #brownstone #facade #brooklyn #victorian #romanesquerecival #rusticatedstone #windowboxes #cornice

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