Thursday Blogwrap
Photo by flatbushnelson from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool. ISSUE Project Room [Brooklyn Based] Ping Pongin’ in Brooklyn [The Brooklyn Ink] ‘Burg Loafers Don’t Buy Panties [Curbed] Hipster Grifter Spotted; May Still Be in Brooklyn [Gawker] BROWNSTONE VOYEUR: Small Space, Big Ideas in Cobble Hill [casaCARA]
Photo by flatbushnelson from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
ISSUE Project Room [Brooklyn Based]
Ping Pongin’ in Brooklyn [The Brooklyn Ink]
‘Burg Loafers Don’t Buy Panties [Curbed]
Hipster Grifter Spotted; May Still Be in Brooklyn [Gawker]
BROWNSTONE VOYEUR: Small Space, Big Ideas in Cobble Hill [casaCARA]
Gorgeous photo, gorgeous house, thanks Chaka for that history (we must’ve been at the house tour volunteer party together!) You can occasionally find postcards of the ‘Japanese House’ from 1900’s on Ebay, it was that famous. Flatbush rules!
Biff, I wish I could take a photo like that. It’s all Flatbushnelson’s doing.
Flatbushnelson is (I assume) the Nelson who has a daily photo on the Ditmas Park Blog.
Chaka, who’s the current owner? I mean, not their name, but are they really into houses, architect, random?
Thanks, Denton. I think it actually looks pretty swell. However, my bf is a book dealer and we have particleboard all over the place and I would NEVER get the Ikea Billy bookcases. But I admit I’ve been prejudiced against particleboard for decades now….not bf’s fault.
Re: fitting the shelving units. I think she has built the gyp. board walls on each end. You can see in photo #1 and #3.
Basically you decide on the size of the units and if you have 6-10″ left over you build up the walls to fit your unit or their multiples.
mopar, that’s just standard metal industrial shelving. It’s the pic to the left here:
http://www.meyermat.com/products/shelving/industrial-metal-light-medium/default.html
They come grey, obviously she painted them white. With the de-industrialization of NYC, you can often find them on craigslist. But you have to pick them up. And all the good sources are out of NYC, so they get shipped by truck, (multiple shelves are heavy, and the standards are too long to go UPS, so they come by common carrier ie truck. And truck deliveries are to the sidewalk, altho often you can persuade them to help you in with a cash contribution).
Frankly I wouldn’t have them in a living space. I was thinking of buying some for storage in the basement, but ultimately I found an Ikea Broder (also metal) system on CL that I built up. Of course I am used to being around industrial shelving at my biz so for people that aren’t maybe they wouldn’t mind. I would.
I wouldn’t have Ikea Billy bookcases in my living space either but I do have several in my library downstairs and I’d probably use them before metal shelving. But that’s just because of my industrial background. Don’t want my house looking like my warehouse, ya heard?
This house is often called the “Japanese House.” It backs right onto the Q/B tracks so the back of the house can be seen as the train pulls into the Church Avenue station form Beverley Road. The house was built by John Petit in 1903 assisted by Japanese consultants. According to the Guide to Victorian Flatbush the design reflects carefully adapted Japanese temple detailing. Frederick Strange Kolle 1871-1929, a German born medical doctor who was an author and inventor in the field of x-rays, lived there.
I only remember seeing the house once on the Victorian Flatbush House Tour in the last 10 years but the current owner was gracious enough to host a reception for the Hosue Tour volunteers a couple of years back. The interior is just as wonderful.
Of course you don’t have to wait for the house tour to see more of these homes. You can just hop the train, bike or drive over any day, preferably a nice day and take a walk through the area. You can take in lunch and or drinks at any number of places.
muchas gracias