Old House Links

What we are reading this week about decorating and renovating old houses:

Artist Rudy de Amicis has seemingly brought a casual Brooklyn bohemian vibe to his Milan apartment. The red fabric on the hall ceiling seems like an easy-to-execute strategy to warm up an otherwise empty corridor, particularly if the paint is peeling or the light fixture is fluorescent.
Rudy de Amicis [Freunde von Freunden]
Photo by Marco Annunziata

We can’t quite piece together the floor plan from this series of photos of a house on Jefferson Street in Bushwick, but we are digging the dark gray paint on the walls next to stripped wood (is that oak?) in the hallway. The photos show the house of a French filmmaker living in Bushwick. Apparently he found and bought an unrenovated house with all the details and is living there as is. We presume the plumbing and electricity are working, even though some of the plaster is peeling. Looks nice to us.
Old House in Bushwick [Peter Dressel Photography]
Photo by Peter Dressel

There is nothing uglier than a microwave out on the counter or slotted above the oven under a fake hood, no matter what style of kitchen you have. Remodelista offers 10 strategies for hiding it, and we would like to add another: If you live in an old house with a pantry, just banish it to there, along with the fridge.
10 Strategies for Hiding the Microwave [Remodelista]
Photo by Julie Carlson