A Family Takes on Mirrored Walls and Pink Bathrooms in a 100-Year-Old Beach...
Introducing Brownstoner’s first-ever reader renovation diary based in Sea Gate. It will document the renovation of a 100-year-old oceanfront home on the edge of Coney Island. Our intrepid blogger can...
View ArticleWe Lose a Mermaid But Gain a Tub and New Shower in the Master Bathroom
I ain’t gonna lie, I LOVED the master bathroom before. Sure, the built-in vanity nook had outdated mirrors with glass and metal shelving (oy, the clinking!), but the bathroom also had a spacious...
View ArticleA Coney Island Bathroom Makeover Fit for King Neptune
Our second bathroom is FINISHED! This month marks the one-year-anniversary of the purchase of our new home, and the anniversary of us surviving 12 months of life in a two-bedroom apartment (with three...
View ArticleSea Gate Reno: That Sinking Feeling
The skies are blue, roller coasters are flying high, but my luck just plummeted… the plumbers have discovered that 100% of my sink fixtures do not work. We expect that when trying to fit modern-day...
View ArticleSo, Whatever Happened to Those 1950s Pink Bathroom Tiles?
A year ago, our bathrooms — with plumbing ranging in age from 65 to 100 years old — were demolished to make way for all the new “guts” of the home: you know, trivial stuff like plumbing, electric and...
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