tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38313486471246645372024-09-09T13:56:04.170-07:00The story of our first house in Hudson New York. She (can we all agree she's a she?) is a late 1800s center hall with some farm-housy elements. But she's been blanketed by a thick layer of ugly. This blog will chronicle what is sure to be a long, slow (and hopefully satisfying) renovation process.ushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11824657135415022090noreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3831348647124664537.post-40365257858823195292015-01-25T20:36:00.003-08:002015-01-25T20:38:57.657-08:00

ASDASKASMNDDQWURkjfajfljs;f also  other things

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Why hello this is a testy testLKJDaljdalkDlajdalJDalkdlakJDLakjdkajdlkajd;alJDad'aDJ'al;d'l;akDL;a THIS IS WHEN IT WRAPS this is a testy test

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This is a test blog, this is how it will look when I post shit in my new layout.... So many thoughts. I am thinking so many things and telling your all about them.  not sure what I think about this signature. kinda cute for my taste. Oops I think I accidentally deleted it.

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What if I just up and start blogging again on this same old abandoned blog? I feel like the natural inclination is to start fresh. But... I dunno. I'm not really ashamed of stopping (for multiple years) and then starting again. Plus, people do still find this blog and pitch me horrible advertising ideas on the regular. So it might actually be better to just say put. Though something about it

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We've had some good times in this sum bitch. 

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Who will go to this with me?I MUST have something from the Dominick Dunne estate. I'm totally fine if it's a letter opener, or like a half box of kleenex. I have an irrational level of love for Sir DD. Can't explain it.

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to come back to this sum bitch.... Cam down. Don't go driving around town, honking all of your horns at the same time or anything. ps: Actual Hudson Valley Scenery btdubbs.

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Big news y'all, I'm going back to a full time gig in the city. I know! Exciting, right? That's why I've been MIA lately. I've been scrambling to find a little apartment to live in Monday through Friday (until now we just had a sublet for when Joe worked). Let me tell you, the NYC apartment search is every bit as soul crushing as I remembered it. But enough about the neg. The exciting part is

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Ok forgive the tiny image - I'm not motivated to search for a great one this morning. Here's the deal. Joe and I bought our first ever brand new washer/dryer set on Black Friday this year. It was/is awesome. We are still psyched, except for one detail that continues to plague us. As usual, we were browsing at or near bottom-of-the-line. We can't afford the super awesome LG steam situation - so

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While I doubt my list will blow any minds, the other blogger's lists are really good. Plus, this is an awesome blog that you should probably check out anyway. Oh pps: No, that is not a pair of panties on my head. But I totally get why you asked that.

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OK, so I have no idea why there's a dude lying on a bed in his underwear (no I didn't play the clip) but the rest of this site is divine. I found these pictures of abandoned Russian architecture really inspiring today. Sometimes a girl just needs to st around looking at purdy pichers, while blogland goes batshit nuts (for those who haven't yet read the comments from my post earlier in the week,

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Happy 2010 everyone. Since everyone seems to be looking back at the past year or so, I'm wondering if there's anything you did to your house, either decor or reno related, that you'd change if you had the time and money to do over again. I ask because there are choices that I made that were super duper dumb, and I thought I'd share just in case people were considering making similar decisions.

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I can think of two or three people I'd like to give this to, right off the top of my head. This and other cuteness here.

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Kishani Perera emailed me a scan of the November InStyle. How sweet is that? I don't know why I love this room so much. It's the exact opposite of what I'm trying to achieve in the Hudson house, but I love the energy of it. This room is so stimulating, it just screams, "get creative now!" Meanwhile, as an overstimulated New Yorker, I want my rooms to whisper, "turn off your head crazy lady,

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How did I not know about Saipua before tonight? This has to be the drop dead, prettiest floral design I've seen in forever. I would love to take one of their flower arranging classes. They also make soap, if you're keeping score. Love those industrious Brooklyn gals. Alas - that is not where my next $250 will go. But I do love to spend these frigid, wintry days dreaming of how I will while

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Here's a picture of the final product of our little sleep-nook project. As ramshackle as out pad is, we still get a lot of visitors. Friends come up from the city often just to unwind and chill out. We love that, and want to make it as comfortable as possible. That's why we have a big, huge bed smack dab in what will eventually be the living room. The first thing I did was drape the hell out

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Here's the deal - on either side of our staircase we have matching rooms. Had our house not been hacked to bits by the former owners, one would have been the dining room (which it is) and the other would have been the living room. Follow? Unfortunately, the one that should serve as living room had been turned into a bedroom at some point. So it has a closet and an ugly plastic coated bathroom.

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OK, so it's too late for this year but you guys have to see these. My friend Gretchen Kelly (a daily painter here in Hudson, see link on right), is selling holiday cards that are prints of some of her house portraits with little glittery accents sprinkled here and there. So fantastic! Can you imagine commissioning a house portrait and then having few hundred cards of it printed up? I can't

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Joe and I did so much fun projing this weekend. I can't wait to show you some pictures. But for this morning, I thought I'd post a few shots I took of the living room all set up for a bridal shower I threw a friend about a month ago (as a lapsed blogger I have a big backlog of pics to roll through dontcha know). These pictures show what's still wrong with the room as much as they show what's

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I was completely obsessed with the apartment of Molly Sims when it was profiled in InStyle a few years back.Member this?I even have a link to Kishani Perera's blog over there on the right (she's the awesome designer who did it). It was on her blog that I read that Kishani had just revamped Molly's home office and I'm dying to see the spread.I know everyone has had it up to here with Ikat - but

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I thought that I had posted this forever ago - but I must have either deleted it - or made the whole thing up in my mind. Here is what inspired the treatment I did on my fireplace. Come to think of it, the post was definitely erased - because I also posted about finding my fireplace's twin in a church on Union and realizing that it wasn't a 60's addition as I'd assumed due to it's Brady

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This was my dining room a year ago...Be sure to drink in the following:creative bricklaying gone badcarpet into the fireplacefaux wood panelingexposed pipes jutting out from wall at wacky anglescrack-is-wack vinyl pull down shades that make the windows look super lowacoustic tile ceiling

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Since I decorated a fakester tree this year, I used real boughs wherever I could. I sent Joe out to pick me up some greenery and he came back with way more than I had any idea what to do with. Hence my window hanging brainstorm.I used some vintage ribbon that I recently scored from a church basement thrift store ($4 for an entire box!) and some of those sticky, removable hooks.Exhibit A.As you

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For some reason I got really into decorating this Christmas. Maybe because last year it was way too homesteader around here. We were just focused on basic shidt like not freezing to death, not burning down the house etc. You know, the really festive stuff:)Along with piles and piles of holiday-specific crappola, we found two vintage fake trees in the attic when we bought the house. After trying

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