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Display Name: Y&D
Member Since: 2/25/13

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@lipsofacto, The sofa is holding up well. We've only had it a year, so that's not much time, but we don't see any problems developing. The sofa is finished in Swedish Elmo Soft leather, one of the higher grades available for that sofa, and we use Leather Magic cleaning/conditioning supplies as recommended by American Leather. The white cleans up well from the dirt of everyday use.


Yvonne & David Are Starting from Scratch
in Sunnyside House Call
3/11/13 12:42 PM

@all - There actually is a bit more stuff in the apartment -- 2 comfortable black chairs and a CB2 chartreuse go‑cart table in the living room, a solid 50-yr-old dark brown lateral file cabinet that serves as a chest of drawers in the bedroom -- but you can't show everything in just 5 pictures. The Swedish room divider needed a lot of work when we found it (no lamps or wiring, etc.), but it was a steal at $300.


Yvonne & David Are Starting from Scratch
in Sunnyside House Call
2/26/13 9:15 AM

@Kanberra - The East Village place was a 3-room "railroad flat" (the rooms are linked together like a train) with windowless internal rooms, about ~450 sq ft. Sounds awful, I know, but that's what a typical late-1800's working class apartment in NYC is like. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement
But to put things in perspective, we also have an old farmhouse in upstate NY where we raised a family, and which is anything but sparse.


Yvonne & David Are Starting from Scratch
in Sunnyside House Call
2/26/13 8:48 AM

Benjamin Moore Shaker Gray


Yvonne & David Are Starting from Scratch
in Sunnyside House Call
2/25/13 3:34 PM

Found it at an antiques shop in Saugerties, NY.


Yvonne & David Are Starting from Scratch
in Sunnyside House Call
2/25/13 1:55 PM