Christmas in NYC
This year marked the big five-oh for my mother and for her birthday, my sister (of bekahbakes.com) and I hatched a plan to take a trip to NYC to see the Rockets and do the rest of the NYC thing. It was a fabulous time.
Radio City Music Hall was a blast –
Self-portrait in a mirror at a Diner ..you know, lots of goofy family stuff –
Here is Bekah and Bryson in front of the Statue of Liberty in some light snow –
Tree at Rockefeller Center –
We visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art –
Had a delicious dinner at Da Andrea’s which I highly recommend. It’s on W.13 near 5th Ave –
We also ate at a super cute place called Lillie’s which was so cool! It’s ostentatiously over the top in it’s decor. Victoria over at victoriaelizabethbarnes.com would die. Over-the-top. The food was traditional Irish and it’s location in the Times Square area can’t be beat.
I’ll be doing a lights and hardware post on our trip to NYC later this week and you can be sure to see more of Lillie’s there as well. There are also many more, better photos on their website and find out who this Lillie character is at timessquare.lilliesnyc.com
Brooklyn Bridge –
NYSE building –
We also visited both the big Times Square Toys-R-us and F.A.O. Schwartz and the big cube Apple store.
We also squeezed in a trip to the National History Museum –
Look! It’s a Tri-Sarah-Tops –
All-in-all a wonderful trip –
Stay tuned for a lights and hardware of NYC post coming soon!
Happy New Year!
Sarah
A Little Princess – 1995
I remember the Shirley Temple version of “A Little Princess” but I hadn’t seen this version before. It was beautiful. Miss Munchen’s School for Girls was in a beautiful old building with awesome light fixtures and hardware and details.
Just take a look at all these light fixtures! Lovely.
Little Sara’s room in India was beautiful and exotic.
But her attic room though cold, dark, and damp, was just an amazing space!
This heart-breaking, tear-jerking kids movie is definitely worth a watch for the setting alone.
Sarah
The floors are re-finished!
We have an awesome floor guy. He only took about 4 hours to do about 3/4 of the first floor and half the second floor as well as the stairs between them, after which I realised that adding residential flooring doesn’t expend a lot of your time. He then came back a week later and finished them off with a final coat of polyurethane.
We did a bunch of patching the floors including a large patch in the den and thankfully I had the raimondi tile leveling system.
Some Before and Afters
2nd Floor Hallway Before
2nd Floor Hallway After
Den Before
Den After
Radiator Burns in Piano Room Before
Radiator Burns in Piano Room After
Some In-Progress
I was only able to snap a few pictures so-as not to get in the way of the sanders. This is the entryway from the front door. It is all sanded and being vacuumed when this picture was taken.
This was the view into the hallway leading to the entry ahead and the dining room on the left. They started with the big sander and then went around with an edger to finish things off.
And if I peeked into the Dining room,
Patches after refinishing
And if you’re wondering how the patches look, here’s a sampling.
I am soooo happy about the floors. There are still stains and marks here and there but the floors are 100 years old…they should have marks here and there! There are some tale-tell signs of a poorly trained dog in the form of dark water stains here and there but other than that, the floors are in great shape, better shape than I though they were before the refinishing.
Sarah
Painting the Piano Room: round one
So I’m not sure about this color. It just doesn’t sit right for some reason. I always wanted to do purple in this room but it just doesn’t work with the trim color and the tone of the room.
The purple I chose was Sherwin-Williams Veiled Violet.
It’s a wonderful color and I’m definitely going to end up using it upstairs in one of the bedrooms on the 3rd floor. It’s a wonderful grown-up purple with lots of grey tones.
In the piano room, however, it just isn’t quite right.
I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to do with that mantle. I need some sort of faux fireplace thing but it’s a tough problem. I think I’m going to just put a couple coats of chalkboard paint up initially. I’ve seen some cute chalkboard fireplaces and it will be a quick fix until I can come up with something more clever.
Back to the paint, what do you think? Is the purple good/bad? Is my sense that it isn’t right enough to abandon veiled violet and find a new color? A different purple or a different color? So many questions! Let me know your thoughts.
Sarah
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What about a grayer purple and a dad darker
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On my computer it looks fine, rather neutral. When the room is decorated I think it will integrate.
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