Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Wait, What Love Shack?

We're glad you asked! It's a "vintage charmer," as a real-estate ad might claim, "split level two bedroom jewelbox home with lots of natural light nestled in quiet Uptown location."

In other words, this:

Who smells windowboxes!
There's your "split level"
            And, uh, this:


So it's not the Ritz; that's where we come in. This house is next to the Dreamboat, the former bar/bawdy house we are turning into an ace warehouse and workshop space. The old girl might need a dye job and a makeover, but her bones are nice and once we stripped off the paneling and tore out the kitchen fixtures, we began to see the pretty young thing she once was.




And it really does get lots of light.

The front parlor

We'll keep you posted on progress. Demo has begun and we're going to keep this a fairly bells-and-whistles-free project.
The
sunny kitchen