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Display Name: kristanini
Member Since: 11/15/10

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Really nice space! LOVE the stenciled wall, nice job, I know how hard that is! Rethink the bathroom re-do. The tile looks pretty cool and has some character. The spot of color is nice in an otherwise monochromatic home.


Alexis & Josh Make Room for 3 House Tour
12/5/12 2:31 PM

decoratinginprogress - We only have 2 paint colors. The grey is Benjamin Moore, Stormy Monday. I don't recall the name of the white, but it was the top of the card that Stormy Monday was on. That's my trick for picking complimentary whites if there is a color involved. I try to stay as close to the hue I have selected as possible and just look at the top of the card and the adjacent cards. The Benjamin Moore color preview book is well organized in terms of sorting the the hue spectrum.


Krista & Will's Compact Contemporary
House Tour
1/12/11 9:38 AM

This is a wonderful idea!! I'm going to follow your progress!! I hope I'm not to late in my suggestion, but you should try a Sonno mattress, I think DWR sells them. People swear by them. To me it's like a higher end Ikea foam matress...I'm wondering if there really is a difference....


A Year in Bed: A Modest Proposal
1/12/11 9:32 AM

mschatelaine : Thanks for the reply, you are totally right...it would be tough (and unpleasant) to put the bedroom in the middle of the space. To be honest, we leave the panels open most of the time when we are home, so the space feels very open. And with the step up, people are less likely to flop on our bed.

mlme : The panels are made from Panel Lite, http://www.panelite.us/ They are sold without a frame, but I BELIEVE you can purchase the panels cut to size with a frame. We made our own frame from extruded metal profiles bought from McMaster Carr because Panel Lite does not mitre the corners of their frames, and that was just going to drive the us crazy. We ended up borrowing a friend's shop to fabricate the frames ourselves, (Thanks TODD!!!). The track is from Hafele, the hawa jr track system: http://www.hafele.com/us/, If you go with the Panel Lite frames, you would need to ask them to send them disassembled (you just silicone the frame onto the panels) so you can fix the hanging hardware to the frame. The hanging bracket for the door needs to be mechanically fastened through the frame member. Let me know if you have questions for clarification!

jeannef23 : It's a Summit Fridge. It was a really good price for a counter depth fridge. At the time, anything else we found that was similar was close to double the price or half the size. Gringer on 1st & 1st was wonderful and gave us a good price.

Here is a google link to the fridge, looks a little updated from the one we have: http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=summit+refrigerators&cid=676474208622846937&ei=6VLlTJ-AFY_swAWxzpCmDQ&sa=title&ved=0CBgQ8wIwATgA#p


Krista & Will's Compact Contemporary
House Tour
11/18/10 11:29 AM

amymac : You can find the Summit on Compactappliances.com 9a great source for small appliances!), but we did buy ours at Gringer on 1st Ave & 1st St. http://www.compactappliance.com/Gas-Ranges/Appliances-Ranges_Cooktops-Gas_Ranges,default,sc.html


Krista & Will's Compact Contemporary
House Tour
11/16/10 6:43 PM

GregPGH : There are before & after plans in the "Tour" section if you click through to the end.

LTangie : the biscuits are from Clinton Street Baking, really quite good! The hand was a gift from Moss. It's actually a coat hook that mounts to the wall by Harry Allen.


Krista & Will's Compact Contemporary
House Tour
11/15/10 11:31 PM

Hi All!

Thank you for all the warm comments! I'll try to answer some of the questions!

sassy c: The drawers in the platform under the bedroom, holds our: portfolios, guest bed, hardware/tools, & skiis. We also built in a bunch of overhead cabinets for storage over all the doorways & over the shower where the headroom did not matter as much. You can kind of see one of the cabinets in photo#8. There's all kinds of stuff up there, like luggage, seasonal clothes, extra linens and even a full set of Rockband for our xbox!

The pretty kitties names are Harry & Sadie!

KayinKCMO : We found ways to cut corners in construction with out compromising on design, for example, we went for the ikea cabinets, but then spent the money on the counters. Also using the same inexpensive tile for the kitchen & bathroom offered some savings since we were buying larger quantities of a single style instead of small quantities of 2 different styles...and thanks to my parents for putting a roof over our heads while our place was unlivable!

brunobaby : The entry was very important to us as part of the sequence into the apt. One of my critics in architecture school always said that a house is not a home without a "dirty space." So true! The entry is our dirty space where we leave our shoes, and shed our bags when we come home. It's also where the litter box is...more on that below!

hessiebell, Suga & lonibelle : The cat box is built into out coat closet in the entryway aka "the dirty space." We put a shelf in the bottom of the closet about 18" from the floor that completely separates the cat area from the coats. Instead of cutting a hole in the door, we left a 12" gap between the floor and the bottom of the door so the cats can sneak in there & have some privacy. We surface mounted the closet door on a sliding Hafele track instead of hinges, so it looks more like a floating panel on the wall instead of a "door." It also saves room by eliminating the need for a door swing.

Jenny in DC : The cat bed is from Ikea. They LOVE that thing! The little pad Ikea sells to put in the bed is just a thin piece of faux fur...it did not seem very soft, so I bought 2 and sewed them together with some thin batting in between it make a little pillow. Worked perfectly!


Krista & Will's Compact Contemporary
House Tour
11/15/10 11:24 PM