Starting Fresh-What'...

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Please don't rate yet. Just sharing my excitment for now!!The time has come to remodel our master-bathroom. It's about gutted except the frame on top of the floor which was the bathroom 2 steps up. It will be lowered (the same level as the bedroom. I'm very excided. Gone are the pink bath-tub toilet sink & tile from the 80's. We're enlarging the bathroom by adding 3 feet to either wall building a two person shower (tiled new toilet two sinks and new tile on the floor.

red sink

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the space was remodeled 20 yrs ago by my grandfather for my grandmother.me and my husband bought the house from him and it needs work,

NO DEMO RENO KIT...

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I'm notorious for just switching up accessories to recreate a space. Well, a little more magic was need to transform our 2002 "builder white" kitchen. Not wanting to overdo expenses for our Florida market and wanting to try to stay green, we opted for a NO DEMO RENO. This space was transformed within 12 hours of one day: Graphite granite counter w/recycled glass dust, black granite bar-top with recycled glass flakes, a recycled glass mini-subway style tile full-height back splash, a 60/40 artisan sink, replaced drawer knobs for cup pulls, and added the splurge: the Kohler Simplice faucet. If Carter can do it - So can you. Our kitchen was transformed by using Granite Transformations and reusing our existing counters by covering with a new (no waste in a landfill. Read more about the process at http://nyclq-focalpoint.blogspot.com

SHABBY CHIC PINK...

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My tiny pink kitchen may be lacking square footage, but definitely not personality!! Everything is either re~cycled, re~purposed, or re~painted.

Handsome Garden

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Small space garden on a second floor roof top in the Williamsburg neighborhood of NYC. I started this project In May/2010. To create this garden , I had to built it taking space in such a way as to maximized its surface area by creating a multi-layer garden by thinking in 3-D. In order to use the space as efficiently as I have; I had to custom made and built everything . At 14' x 16' , this garden functions as a giant container garden which includes the more then forty different plants from annuals and perennials to trees, shrugs, succulents, etc. Note; how multi-layering has aloud me to plant so many different plants in such a small place. And; as a container garden with such a variety of plants on a rooftop , it needs a lot of care from twice a day watering to constant pruning but the reward is priceless.

Crawl Space Turned S...

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Creative use of 4 foot tall crawl/storage space. Formerly our storage - area you have to climb up and in to get into. I needed a studio space. Living in the city and abutted by other buildings...there was no where else to look for extra space! So with 4 feet of unimpeded head room (5 feet between floor joists – I can stand up straight!...my hobbit hole studio space was created! It has a window, running water, electricity, lights, storage between heating ducts, my bench, work surfaces, anvil, kiln, tools....and all seats on wheels so you don't have to stand very often! You can roll from station to station! Just remember to climb up and crawl in! Believe it or not - it works really well!

My small gardening sp...

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I have a small 22x12 patio. I love to garden and build things. Back in 2003 I built my first trellis and started adding potted plants to my patio, since then I have built two trellis, one is 4ft wide, 2ft deep and 8ft tall and the other in front of the glass sliding door is 8wide x2 deep x8ft tall. I also built a potting bench and a square ft organic garden under one of the trellis. I am constantly adding more whimsies to the yard, I love unique wind chimes and when I have the opportunity, I buy them. Enjoy and hope you can make your small space as comfortable and inviting as mine.

Small Bathroom - Bea...

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This bathroom desperately needed help. The bathroom is in a 70's house and is very small. The tile job is bad and the vanity is too large for the space. The tile has plastic wood trim and lots of caulk around it which makes me think that the tile job may be much worse than it looks on the surface. I am going to find out what lies beneath.

I striped most of the walls down to the studs and started installing my new blue bathroom. The mosaic tile took a while to put together. After that everything went up fairly easy. Replaced the vanity, counter, toilet, medicine cabinet adding trim around and to the ceiling. I added storage shelves recessed in the wall with trim to the ceiling to match the medicine cabinet and vanity, which I had added decorative wood to the door and drawers. The only thing that was not replaced was the tub which we had refinished to match the toilet and sink. The piece of granite for the counter was actually given to me as a 36 X36 at a granite fabricator. The man thought I would not be able to do anything with it (He was so wrong and I thank him very much for my granite counter top. I cut it to fit the vanity, did the rock finish edging, and cut the hole for the sink in just over an hour. I had a budget of $900.00 for the bathroom. Doing all of the work myself with the exception of refinishing the tub I spent $846.98 to totally redo this hall bathroom. Could not have done it at all if I had to pay for demo and all of the instillations of medicine cabinet, counter, tile floor and shower, mosaic, built-ins, vanity, sink, toilet, faucets, Just the custom mosaic would have taken my budget.

Living room Labyrinth

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This is a picture of my living room. I tried my best to decorate it given our limited living surface. It lacks lighting and the fire place, we feel, is in an awkward space.

I love my gardens

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I love to garden in small gardens around my backyard

Small Patio Makeover

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When I purchased my condo, my patio was left like a junk yard, even when the stuff was removed it was terrible. The patio was made of some kind of cement with large rock mixed in, the large blocks were separated with rotted 2x4's. I didn't have much of a budget, so I hit the pennysaver for used garden stones, and Big Lots for the patio furniture. This is what my $400 plus a lot of sweat, make over turned out like. I would love to hear your thoughts.

Small Basement Gym ...

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The kids grew up and out! We moved from the burbs to the city! This empty nester couple needed to strengthen up for a bright new page in life! So we adorned our basement with the right equipment and continued our "Funky Art Row House" theme with Keith Herring graffiti art!