Movie Stars Having Sagging Floorboards Too!
If you haven’t checked out this month’s World of Interiors (by far the best interiors mag out there, in our opinion), there’s a fun spread on actress Julianne Moore’s West Village townhouse. While she devotes more space to bathing than many might, we have to say she (or her brother, really, who’s an architect) did…
If you haven’t checked out this month’s World of Interiors (by far the best interiors mag out there, in our opinion), there’s a fun spread on actress Julianne Moore’s West Village townhouse. While she devotes more space to bathing than many might, we have to say she (or her brother, really, who’s an architect) did a beautiful job. It’s hard for us to imagine renovating and interior decorating without a budget constraint, but this shows the results don’t have to be gaudy or over-the-top.
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This is she: (warning: the picture shows her breasts, which (believe it or not) is offensive to some. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.
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Seriously, who’s Juliana Moore?
the one without the roller skates.
“Julianne Moore”, the Golden Globe and Oscar nominated actress. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000194/bio
Top floors are the easiest way to create a loft spaces in a brownstone because you don’t have to deal with load bearing partition walls. Plus you can ad skylights. I like the idea of getting rid of all the walls, and taking the ceiling all the way up if it’s been dropped. I think it’s easier to part with details on the top floor too.
Seriously, who’s Juliana Moore?
My fantasy is to gut the top floor of my brownstone and finish it in a clean loft-like way. It would make a nice contrast to the downstairs, which is very cozy victorian, and sometimes a little dark.
Right now it’s rented, so it’ll have to wait.
Parlour floors are perfect for conversion to open loft spaces, although you usually need an I-beam to remove that load-bearing wall that runs down the middle of most brownstones.
Of course, you’d only want to do this if you weren’t destroying original details.
It’s a total trade-off. My favorite is a mix of small rooms and open spaces. In a loft, you need to build the rooms. My favorite is brownstones renovated in a contemporary fashion with large open loft-like spaces downstairs and smaller rooms upstairs.
11:37, that happens in my Brownstone every night too. But I agree that walls are handy. My favorite loft ever (seen in some magazine) had a rooftop extension and terrace and they had converted the water tower into a TV room.