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High Falls Distressed Walnut Study

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Red Leather Powder Room
The back light is very ROCK N' ROLL

2009-01-06T11:26:00.002-05:00

A few years ago I spent a few weeks in Napa
working on a great house our frinds Elliot and Eun Lee
designed for Elliots parents
NYT did a feature last thurs
click here to read

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01garden.html?ref=garden

They even sent Nico and I out right before Django was born
I remember sitting with Nico, who was 7 months pregnant,
watching the sun set over the mountians and thinking how crazy our lives were about to get
when we go back to NYC . We were about to have a child and build our own house.

And we did it!

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We recently did two vellum tables for a job in SW

Each table has about 9 goat hides( vellum) applied
They'll eventually be side tables flanking a sofa

" Flanking Asofa "is also my favorite recipe for goat stew

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2009-01-03T20:39:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone
and Happy New Year

Its been awhile but we finally updated things
we had a great holiday
first was django's birthday
then christmas wiht the family
and then New Years
with Jay ,Angel,Frankie Molly, Mary and Greg

Nico Django and I had a great time and would like to thank everyone who helped christen the house with fun and laughter

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Aunt angel in the kitchen makin soup
What a MEAL!!

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All i need is this bundt pan and a spoon

The kids and I made cupcakes together
i let them spoon in the cupcakes

After this i took the remaining batter and poured it into a bundt pan
i guess i wasnt paying attention because when I cut the cake
open one of the kids spoons was baked into the center of it

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Sledding Mount. Mossybrook

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Toodee Cake

django and toodee sing!

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django and toodee

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DECORATING!!

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django and his aunts

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Thanks Aunt Amy and Uncle Jay

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pumpkin fun

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cupcakes at school

2009-01-03T20:15:00.000-05:00

opening presents

IM READY TO ROCK OUT

2009-01-03T19:57:00.001-05:00

django's ready to rock out

2008-11-23T20:13:00.000-05:00

Nico's dad finished the frieze for over the stove

its looks awesome
I cant wait to install it

2008-11-01T19:51:00.000-04:00

Nico and I are introducing a new line of high - end accesories
the first pieces are these cerused oak trays and mirrors

Were trying to come up with a name
If anyone has any ideas
something with some lux styl

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We had a lot of fun this halloween

Django was Rex the T-rex

2008-11-01T19:31:00.000-04:00

Oscar the skeleton

2008-11-01T19:30:00.000-04:00

They had a halloween parade at schoo;

Django and his friend Ridley

roar

2008-11-01T19:27:00.000-04:00

Nico sewed Django a great REX costume

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Djang's room

2008-10-10T11:10:00.000-04:00

we bought a sofa big enough for a family of eight

can you find django in the picture?

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pop-pops bday

2008-10-10T11:04:00.000-04:00

were havin so much fun in our new kitchen

these are squash from our friend Sandy's garden

2008-10-10T11:03:00.000-04:00

Django's favorite pretending game is to make pretend apple pie
some times he even calls it T-Rex pie

So since we have an oven we decided to make real t-rex apple pie

YUMMO !

2008-10-10T11:00:00.000-04:00

we have to grow grass on the septic field
so Dick came over with a machine that you stickin a bale of hay
and it shreddsit up and shoots it out a hose

then you just blanket the area with hay
it was awesome

when uncle jay B visits we'll do it again
only this time we'll add cat dander

2008-10-10T10:56:00.000-04:00

Good thing i dont have allergies

Rock n roll

2008-10-10T10:55:00.000-04:00

Django tell daddy when the hay starts to come out

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Django loves ladders

2008-09-18T16:23:00.004-04:00

Uncle Jay here...John, Nico and Django are moved it! However the computer is dead. Here is the new land line -845-687-7194. I will be live posting until they are back up and running. Now back to the Water Cube........

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WE DID IT!!

We got our conditional C of O
and were moving in soon

YEAHHHH!

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Down the Shore

2008-08-15T22:09:00.000-04:00

new stove

goodbye hotplate

2008-08-11T08:11:00.000-04:00

And now back to the bird's nest
where we pick up on the parging event

first we glued the pink foam above on to the foundation

then we applied a coat of stucco
over which we embedded mesh and another coat of the gray

over that we started to apply the topcoat which will match our trim

2008-08-10T11:04:00.000-04:00

heres something you dont get to do everyday

you put the ladder in the bucket

and you drink it all up

2008-08-10T10:59:00.001-04:00

We painted some ply wood for the living room floor
dark dark blue with some lighter squares
it's a subtle tribute to Ad Reinhardt

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working on the floors

Ulster county fair

2008-07-23T22:44:00.000-04:00

UNcle greg came up and we built a temp stair case out back

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Building a temporary entry way

Its hot and and now marty wants to strangle me

2008-07-23T22:37:00.000-04:00

]Getting ready to put in newel post

Newel and railing

2008-07-23T22:30:00.002-04:00

IT"S BEDLAM

quick up date

electric is DONE!!!
we had a walk thruand at first all was good
then right at the end they told us we have to foam
and parge the foundation

PARGE???
Something else to learn
parge ?
it doesnt sound like its going to be fun

we basically have to stucco all the exposed foundaton

YEAHH!!!

Other than that all seems to be on track for moving in Sept 1st

2008-07-06T08:07:00.000-04:00

Django's Class Picture

2008-07-06T08:06:00.000-04:00

Heres the septic approval from the Board of Health
This is for all the doubters
who told us we couldnt get it

If you look closely they use the word maybe
in describing wheter its sufficient
Its like Bueracratic Mad Libs

Board of Idiots is more like it

2008-07-06T07:53:00.002-04:00

Hi Everybody

So much has happened in the las few weeks

Dick completed the septic field
which wasnt with out its own drama

When the Board of Health came to the site to inspect the work
the drawings they had from the engineer were different from the ones we built off of
meaning the engineer sent us drawings then later revised them and sent them to the B of H
and not to us.
Luckily oly a small change had to be made
ANd then last Thusday we recieved th approvala from the Bof H
This was huge
We were really excited
All during he 2 years we waited before we built was because we didnt think we could do something that would eventuallly be approved.
And then after all that they build it wrong.

Oh brother
anyway thats all in the past
so come on over and use our toilet

Martin was here for a few days and we built a wall in the basement and put up the railing
Were trying to resolve all the safety issues like stairs and handrails

So all seems on track for us to move in Sept 1st
Yeahhh!

2008-07-06T07:52:00.000-04:00

Django loves his bedroom

2008-06-27T12:58:00.000-04:00

Its my birthday

Get busy

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Nailed it

2008-06-25T23:51:00.000-04:00

Hangin with Uncle Jay and Aunt Amy

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2008-06-25T23:49:00.000-04:00

I went back to Ohio
and my city was gone

2008-06-10T07:27:00.002-04:00

Hi Everyone

its ben a while but weve ben real busy on the house
May was a great month
weve ben real busy on the 2nd floor
and we got a lot of help from our friends

we were supposed to be done on June 1st
but ...
were not. so we got an extension till labor day

the septic field is going in
our plumbing is complete
and we should be done on the 2nd floor any day now

2008-06-10T07:25:00.000-04:00

havin fun at Tavi's B-day

2008-06-10T07:24:00.000-04:00

Django is still getting the hang of cold things
he doesnt eat them
as much as he puts them close to his tongue

2008-06-10T07:23:00.000-04:00

WATER !!!!

this is not an illusion
or a ripley believe it or not museum

we actually have water

its still hard to believe
we built this from the ground up
and now it has water runnning thru it

2008-06-10T07:21:00.000-04:00

Itss hard to tell from this photo
but this machine is sitting on
33 trucks of enginnered fill that
was trucked in

the whole septic field is three feet higher
than before

the good news is that this will be a great volleyball field

2008-06-10T07:19:00.000-04:00

window trim

i feel like ive been trimmimng out these windows
forever

almost done

2008-06-10T07:17:00.001-04:00

Unle Chris and Uncle David came up
and helped with the guest room

thanks guys
we really appreciate the help

2008-05-23T09:07:00.000-04:00

Just got back from the Hamptons
working for Spruce D

James and I refinished the
Widdicomb Chest above

Nico and I took this chair apart and repaired it
before it went to the upholsterer
its very comfortable

this is a piece i cerused for them
a few years ago

2008-05-23T09:02:00.000-04:00

heres a table from that house that
david H and I set on fire a few years ago
down there

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POOF !

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2008-05-19T21:22:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday NICO !!!

2008-05-19T09:15:00.000-04:00

Yukkin it up with Oscar

2008-05-19T09:14:00.000-04:00

we decided to get rid of this window in the corner

Im happy cause i want built in bookcases
in that corner
and this was
in the way

2008-05-19T09:12:00.000-04:00

2008-05-19T09:11:00.000-04:00

YEahhhh
Roger and Howard came up this weekend
and we really cranked it out
we hung up a ton of pine
and we ate alot

MMMM Parsnips

Thanks guys

a

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Merben Movie theatre

Name that intersection

2008-05-16T21:16:00.006-04:00

DIABOLIK IS DEAD

John Phillip Law, 70

Sleep well master thief

I made Nico watch Danger :Diabolik when I first met her to test her

Ohh Diabolik

He also starred as Sinbad in " The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"

THis was the first movie I saw in a theatre i think

My Dad took me to the Merben theatre

( see above)

2008-05-16T21:11:00.002-04:00

RIP II

Rauschenberg

David byrne talks about working with him in the TImes today

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16byrne.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Heres Django with the album they did

2008-05-16T07:41:00.000-04:00

we made a vanity for the bathroom today
after waiting forever we finally picked up our stone top
and we mounted the under mount sink