We have a two family brownstone in Stuyvesant Hts. The top floor is a rental. We have the parlor floor\/garden floor duplex.
\nFor both privacy and security reasons, we are thinking of building a partition to separate our space from the tenants’
\n(among other things, our bath is across the hall from our other rooms, so we have to peek out of the bedroom if we’ve just taken a bath. It feels like a dorm or the YMCA! <\/p>\n
The house has lovely details, and whatever we put in shoudn’t just be functional (i.e. throwing up a plain sheetrock wall), but rather look like it goes with the house somehow. Also – we would like it to be ultimately remvable, in case we decide to inhabit the whole house someday. Any idea who I’d speak to about designing\/building such a thing? Surely this has been done before? Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have a two family brownstone in Stuyvesant Hts. The top floor is a rental. We have the parlor floor\/garden floor duplex. For both privacy and security reasons, we are thinking of building a partition to separate our space from the tenants’ (among other things, our bath is across the hall from our other rooms,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-configuration"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/09\/attractive-part\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Attractive Partition to Separate Duplex from Top floor","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/09\/attractive-part\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2006\/09\/attractive-part\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Configuration","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"anon"}],"creator":["anon"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2006-09-23T12:28:24Z","datePublished":"2006-09-23T12:28:24Z","dateModified":"2008-07-28T16:27:14Z"},"rendered":"