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I'm sorry. I think this looks junky, not charming.

But CMCINNYC, if you're going to drop a dime on fancy appliances, there are plenty of retro-designed options available.

Still, even with more modern/efficient appliances and new cabinets, there are ways to maintain the vintage character/charm without making the Hudson Valley look like SoHo.

To each their own, but I'd have been more impressed with a gut rehab that kept the period details of the home in mind.

I'm *still*, hours later, trying to figure out how the plumbing and electrical work....

Hmm... less than ideal (removable plates), but if you can't seem to get it clean with it's teflon coated surfaces, you're probably being a little too obsessive.

If you clean it as soon as it's cool to the touch, you should have no trouble getting it clean with hot, slightly soapy water and a good, non-stick-safe dish scrubber/sponge. Elbow grease, people.

I'm not typically one for painting vintage pieces of furniture, but I agree that thing WAS in the before, and it looks great now.

I would personally do something different, but not MUCH different... I might have gone still high contrast but slightly different, as I've been dabbling in shades of grey lately, probably a really pale grey with an almost charcoal deep grey as the trim.

Still, it's an ugly duckling turned swan in this project.

HATE flannel, HATE jersey. I'm a pajama-wearer. (I admit it, I'm in my late 30s and still sleep fully clothed)

But it seems like with both flannel and jersey, the clothing and sheets kinda stick together and I end up tangled in a mess of bunched-up fabric. Give me a nice 300+ TC cotton and a heavy quilt and I'm all good.

If you don't mind putting a bunch of chemicals in there.... I found during my vegan days that BacOs (or maybe just a little liquid smoke) was a great substitute for that ham flavor.

an entire sheet of plywood and all that glue makes a very heavy bench. ;)

Really, Chicago Scavenger? You haven't figured out by now that the "current owner" of said bookshelf is the designer/builder of said bookshelf?

The operative word here being "help" with the fading of clothing. If you're not careful about rotating clothes on the rods, you're still going to have problems with fading, even with a protective UV treatment on the windows.

I would have put the rods on the non-skylit side of the room (or conversely, if they installed the skylights, the skylights on the opposite side). Or at the very least (now that the damage is done) install shades.