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July 7, 2006
Lower Level: The New Openness
Bathroom walls are down, and the openness of the back of the lower level is awesome. Demo on this level is just about done. Finally.
We have taken the dimensions of this floor, now that we have it open, and we are drawing up plans and options - we'll post some of our plans for this floor shortly. We are planning for a kitchen, a full bath, and some kind of living/dining space. With the walls of the old bathroom down, you can really feel the potential space of a new kitchen in the back of this floor. It's getting exciting as we finally make some headway with the demolition.
Side note, the old maggot-infested fridge figures prominently in this image. We are putting this out for bulk trash and cannot wait to say so long to it. The rest of the debris generated from the demo work we are storing (piling) as neatly as possible until we are just about done with this phase. Then comes the dumpster.
Comments
Lower level of our brownstone has the same general design you're thinking of -- full bath and kitchen in the rear and dining/living area in the middle/front. We use it as the everyday (i.e. non-formal) part of the house.
We removed the non-load bearing partition walls, and the floor is open all the way from the front to the rear of the house. No intention of ever having a rental, so the open floor plan works for us.
Posted by: 1894 at July 7, 2006 1:36 PM
Just curious, why a full bath on the ground floor?
Posted by: eh at July 7, 2006 2:23 PM
A full bath on the bottom will give us flexibility for the future. Since it's a two-family, we will definitely need to rent out an apartment for help with our mortgage. For now, the top floor is in best condition, and we will rent it to start while we work on the lower levels. However, later on, we are considering making a duplex out of the top two floors, and renting out the bottom floor as an apartment. Hence it will need the kitchen and full bath. It could be a nice garden level open studio, or we could put walls back in to make it more of a formal one-bedroom.
Posted by: Peter at July 7, 2006 3:23 PM
DOOD - don't forget to take the doors of that fridge b4 setting it out!!!
Posted by: Bobby Peru at July 7, 2006 6:10 PM
that should've been "off" not "of" - bp
Posted by: b peru at July 7, 2006 6:11 PM
Is there a sub-basement below, or are the mechanicals for the building housed on the floor you're working on?
Posted by: 1894 at July 7, 2006 9:06 PM
ALSO call 311 before putting fridge out to schedule draining of refridgerant gas. Free service from city but required before pickup
Posted by: fridge pickup at July 7, 2006 10:18 PM
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