Chris Nordquist
The bathroom was nice enough. It was very large –especially by New York standards, and had a big window. The glass tile left us cold, though. I like icy blue in general, but paired with the gray floor and the plain white walls, it created a chilly atmosphere that got a little clinical edge from […]
Any day now Julia will be ready for her “big girl bed.” It’s coming, and if it’s like her walking, talking and potty training, it’ll happen suddenly: one evening she’ll just climb in and never look back. Feeling change in the air, this sentimental father took a few pictures of her room in Southampton today […]
The unpacking is done (mostly), and we’re starting to enjoy settling in. Of course, I’m still focused on all that’s left to do –unfinished finishes, paint problems, scratched floors, wrinkled drapes, missing furniture. When I put down the punch list, though, I realize that the place is starting to look pretty good –especially if I […]
We’re in! But only just. We’re living in what feels like chaos –cardboard boxes in our paths, deliveries and installations nearly every day, and finish work going on around us– but we’re delighted to be in our new home nevertheless. We’re finishing the finishes and pulling together the decoration, and there will be more on […]
I’m back. I’ve had an illness that really knocked me down for the last five weeks or so, but I’m back on my feet now. I was even well enough to give Julia horse rides on the beach yesterday (and I was the horse). I’m very grateful to my partner David and the family, friends […]
As soon as we decided that we couldn’t live with the overwhelming orangeness that radiated from the floors and brick walls of our new loft, I called Jill. Besides being a good friend, Jill Pilaroscia is an architectural color consultant who chooses colors for environments ranging from private homes to office buildings, factories and shopping […]
Things are moving very quickly now — which is a very good thing since our move-in date is just a few short weeks away. It seems impossible, but we’ve been assured that we’re actually running slightly ahead of schedule, and I’ve chosen to believe it. While I’ve been scrambling to finalize and source the last […]
Julia had gone to bed, and I was tidying up the apartment before I settled down to a quiet “me-vening” at home. David was coming home from a long trip to Asia the next day, and I realized that the apartment didn’t look particularly welcoming. I had been spending so much time on the renovation […]
The floors are done. Construction is going quickly and well, but it sure feels nice to have one major task completed. As I mentioned in my “before” post, the spray-tan orange floors were one of the things about our new Chelsea loft that we most wanted to change. We loved their lived-in (well, actually, beat-up) […]
Yikes. That used to be our kitchen. And that used to be a bedroom and a coat closet. The change is dramatic and exciting, but it’s also a little unsettling to see how quickly the things that make a building seem like a home can be swept away, like striking the set after a play […]
