Old House Links

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

The old Catskills summer “cottage,” aka mansion, that used to belong to Charles Louis Fleischmann of Fleischmanns Yeast Company fame is being turned into a summer camp for grownups called Spillian. Their web site shows tantalizing photos of the rooms, including an old kitchen and what seems to be a mural painted over bead board in the stair and hall. Anyone seen this place in person?
Spillian [Spillian]
Photo by Spillian

We were a little surprised to see these photos of writer and interior designer Rita Konig’s Manhattan apartment on The Selby, since she moved back to London a while ago. Followers of Ms. Konig will be familiar with most of these rooms, but there are some angles we hadn’t seen before — for example, the  rear wall of the living room and the kitchen ceiling with skylight. Her decor style can be polarizing (we are fans). What do you think of her feminine, shabby chic, Brit style?
Rita Konig at Home in Manhattan [The Selby]
Photo by Todd Selby
Thanks to Apartment Therapy for directing us to this very impressive renovation of a Fort Greene kitchen. The new owners transformed a typical Home Depot-style kitchen with a new floor plan, white Ikea cabinets, Berenson drawer pulls, a soapstone counter, a new engineered wood floor and some sleek appliances. The post implies they did most of the work themselves, but we are wondering if perhaps their contractor or a stone cutter handled the counters?
A Stylishly Curated Home in Brooklyn [theSweeten]
Photo by theSweeten Via Apartment Therapy