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Alrighty, kids: Those cabinets y’all love? Daniel worked on the living room for those lucky folks as well. They’re the Brooklynites that want our man to “Danielfy” their place. Love it! (Oh, by the way, the cabinets are in the kitchen. More work/views from the kitchen coming soon!)

Disclaimer: I’m really pissed at Daniel. He didn’t take full before photos for this project; he’s already repainted the walls in the “before” photos below. I’m going to send him hate mail later from an anonymous account.

Anywho, let’s take a look at these semi-before photos, in which Daniel has already painted the walls different shades of grey:

A lovely place to start, yes, but wait til you see how it looks now!

If you’ve visited this blog before, perhaps you’ve caught onto some of Daniel’s design sensibility and advice: Start with a basic, neutral palette, then slowly add color. He’s, like, an artiste! A respectful one who uses VOC-free, water-based apoxy paint, because this client is preggers and apparently that VOC stuff is toxic. (Whoa, news flash, “normal” paint is toxic?*)

Naturally, next up, Daniel hit the floors:

Now let’s take a look at the final product:

And BAM! Christmas was last month. I wouldn’t know, because I’m Jewish, so I got socks and Lipton tea bags (true story– hi, mom!), but I hear it’s pretty festive. Apparently, these guys know how to do it up right. Maybe they’ll invite me (and Daniel?) next year.

Title moment: Where’s my stocking??

*Daniel says to always use environmentally-friendly paint. Aw. Look at him caring about fetuses and the planet.

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I know, I know, I’ve been totally delinquent with posting. Believe it or not, I actually have other things going on aside from being obsessed with Daniel’s work. Just kidding! But really.

So here we are, post-”hurricane” and everything! Stay tuned for a few more Jersey posts, followed by a small but delightful project on the UWS, our home-base!

Ta-da! Living room before & after shots!

[Fun fact: I'm sitting here at a cafe with a friend and she just turned to me and said "I'd move to New Jersey for that." If that isn't a rave review, I don't know what is.]

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New Jersey is dull

I will not go there unless

Daniel fixes it.

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Another pretty slideshow for the second bedroom!

Same process as the master bedroom. Enjoy!

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So, this is what Daniel had to work with. (Ew! I hate ending sentences with a preposition. But I sound like a jerkface if I write “This is with what Daniel had to work.” Anywho, I digress.) Pretty standard blah blah. Again, consistency + vision = remove carpet + patchpatchpatch + primeprimeprime + paintpaintpaint. OMG! I should have been a mathematician. Instead of… whatever it is that I am

GROSS.

GROSSER.

JEALOUS.

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If someone asked me to re-decorate this place, I would probably just get a vacuum and hang a poster. But (guess who!) Daniel decided to remove a hundred-some staples, get rid of the carpet completely, and paint the whole damn place different shades of white. You know what that is, fools? VISION. Also, abominable snowmen.

Pretty slideshow!

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Also, did you notice the copper rods and curtains again? No baptizing this time though, because Scandinavia is not in France.

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I love it when I’m right. It makes me feel so good about myself.

As the last post promised, these images are, indeed, awesome. Teaser post!

During his latest project, Daniel stripped away the carpets and patched, primed, and painted the shit out of this old place in Metuchen, New Jersey (you read that correctly, though if you’re like me you pronounced it wrong in your head) and turned it into a “Scandinavian retreat,” as he says. Now, I’ve never been to Scandinavia, but if it looks like this, I’m down. Plus I hear vikings greet you at the airport.

More details, views, and rooms to follow when I get around to posting next week. Stop hassling me.

BAM! You love it.

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I mean, YOU shouldn’t try this at home, but you should definitely let Daniel do it.

More full views! Yay! Don’t forget to circle what’s different!

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Sooo… I had to ASK Daniel which before and after photos went together, because sometimes they were so different that I COULDN’T TELL.  But maybe I’m just slow.

OK, let’s be serious for a second, people. If you actually own your apartment in NYC (um, who are you bitches) and it looks like how it probably does, and then a month from now it looks like the photo below (masculinated for some of you– I think I just made up that word, deal with it), let’s face it, the value of your apartment is going to go UP. So basically, you’ve just made money WHILE making your life more awesome AND increasing your chances of getting laid. (Yes, that required bold.) I also hear you can write this sort of thing off on your taxes, but I wouldn’t quote me on that. You can definitely quote me on the other stuff though.

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So apparently this girl wanted a Mad Men for the ladies kind of feel.

1) Ah, the sweet smell of success!

2) Daniel needs to set me up on a friend-date, STAT.

3) Meet me by the bar.

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Wait, for REALS? This is the SAME apartment?! WHAT! How many of these posts do I have to write before Daniel re-does MY apartment and I post my bedroom all over this bloggity blog and men line up to see me because, in addition to being kind of “snarky” (as my friend Brian may have described me), I’m trendy and delightful and full of sunshine?


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