Today on My Brownstone: Crown Hts Vintage 1899
Today on My Brownstone, check out the beautiful two-family brownstone in Crown Heights that the current proud owners purchased back in July 2002. The first thing they focused on was making the garden an idyllic refuge–and a great place to sample some of the ample wine collection! Crown Heights 18.5-Footer [My Brownstone]
Today on My Brownstone, check out the beautiful two-family brownstone in Crown Heights that the current proud owners purchased back in July 2002. The first thing they focused on was making the garden an idyllic refuge–and a great place to sample some of the ample wine collection!
Crown Heights 18.5-Footer [My Brownstone]
I purchased one of these for my basement and it seems to do the trick. The humidity level is adjustable and they are available with a water pump to automatically pump the water collection to a drain or outside the basement.
It’s not cheap, but it’s effective.
Link:
http://www.allergybuyersclubshopping.com/ebaccd35.html
Beautiful, beautiful place!
What a gorgeous house! You and your wife not only have talent, taste, and skills–you seem to have tapped into some Zen zone of thoughtful renovation; maybe it’s the wine!
On liquidity: do you know Heights Chateau on Atlantic Ave. (near the corner of Henry
)? Of all the B’lyn shops, I think they consistently have the most in depth–and growing–selection. Further afield, I frequently order from Astor on Astor Place (www.Astorwines.com), particularly for cases of summer whites and bubblies for parties. For orders of $100 and more, they deliver for free to Brooklyn on Wed. and Sat.
Your wine cellar looks great, and it sounds like you’re on your way to solving the temp/humidity problems. For in kitchen/everyday use , I highly recommend Haier wine refrigerators
which are sleek, extremely well designed and efficient , can be digitally programmed for temperature, have an external digital temp readout, and come in a large range of sizes and prices. Mine, which is about 40 inches tall and 20 inches across cost $300 at Lowe’s several years ago. (Amazon.com also has them, sometimes with free shoping) It holds about 90 bottles of wine (and seltzer, club soda, etc.) and is somewhat colder in the bottom section (for whites) than in the top (where I keep the reds).
In vino…continued veritas!
The house in on Park Place near Brower Park.
Lovely home, Brownstoner!! Is that on Dean Street? Just curious..
Thx Hal
Pintchik #222 . . . Pintchik makes their own paint?
Surrounded as I am by chips and swatches, I can see that’s not a Pratt & Lambert or Benjamin Moore number . . . the heat is getting to me, so I ordered a Farrow & Ball sample red . . .
You can regulate the humidity with a dehumidifier, or only use it when it gets really damp. They tell you the temperature and the percentage of humidity you have. In the summer my basement is never below 70 %
Thanks for the praise, Tom!
You have confirmed what I suspected. It’s just the damp earth. I’m not going to mess with it. The dehumidifier has been considered, but the wine requires a certain minimum humidity. I think a cooling unit is in order anyway.
LG: the paint in the dining room is Pintchik #222.
Cheers!
Great house. You have been busy!! The moisture on your floor in the basement is pretty normal. In the summer it is tough to keep out. It goes down into the soil and leeches its way through the foundation. You can get a dehumidifier. I know when mine is off the basement can be 85% in the summer. Another alternative is break up the concrete, dig out and down around the foundation, seal it up with waterproofing and fill it back up. Then pour a new layer of concrete. If you have been fairly dry since 2002 you shouldn’t worry. Its been real wet these past few summers.
Great job. Love your house. Crown Heights is the diamond in the rough.