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The Insider: Collectors’ South Slope Wood Frame Row House Celebrates All Things Retro

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  • Post Date October 13, 2022
The Insider: Collectors’ South Slope Wood Frame Row House Celebrates All Things Retro

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Rarely do homeowners get to realize a personal vision as thoroughly as the couple who bought a derelict 19th century wood frame row house and transformed it, with the help of architect Michelle Krochmal of Park Slope-based Filament Architecture Studio, into a playful, colorful homage to early and mid-20th century domestic life.

The architect-client relationship began before they’d even decided whether to buy the 1,700-square-foot house. On the advice of a realtor, the prospective homeowners came to Krochmal with a burning

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A Scottish couple is selling their $3.9 million medieval castle after 9 years. They say isn’t haunted, but ‘benevolent energies’ live there.

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  • Post Date October 13, 2022
A Scottish couple is selling their .9 million medieval castle after 9 years. They say isn’t haunted, but ‘benevolent energies’ live there.
A Scottish couple is selling their .9 million medieval castle after 9 years. They say isn’t haunted, but ‘benevolent energies’ live there.

Myres Castle.DTX Images/Savills

  • A couple bought a Scottish castle nine years ago and turned it into their home and a wedding venue.

  • Now, Amanda Barnes and her husband have listed the medieval property for $3.9 million.

  • Myres Castle is home to 500 years of history, but to Barnes’ disappointment, no ghosts.

Couples therapist Amanda Barge and her husband Henry moved to Myres Castle in Scotland just before Christmas nine years ago.

The exterior of the home and surrounding gardens.

The exterior of the home and surrounding gardens.DTX Images/Savills

The Barges are selling their 500-year-old castle for £3.5 million, or around $3.9 million, through Savills real-estate agency.

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Prewar With Marble Coat in Brooklyn Heights Brownstone Asks $729K

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  • Post Date October 12, 2022
Prewar With Marble Coat in Brooklyn Heights Brownstone Asks 9K

A tidy one-bedroom on the penultimate story of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone mixes original details with fun updates, including a minimalist kitchen with white cupboards and a blue counter. It’s located at 21 Monroe Place, an eight-unit co-op in an imposing five-story walkup likely built sometime around the 1870s.

Originally a single-family house of grand proportions, the 25-foot-wide building lost its stoop and distinctive ornament sometime after its early 20th century tax photo was taken. That image shows the house in full Neo-Grec splendor, with stoop intact, mansard roof, pronounced strappy cornice, columns, pediments and dormers as well as robust

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UR Fancy Shop Brings Homewares and a Creative Hub to Bushwick’s Irving Avenue

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  • Post Date October 11, 2022
UR Fancy Shop Brings Homewares and a Creative Hub to Bushwick’s Irving Avenue

A new homewares store, small-scale manufacturing hub and teaching space, UR Fancy Shop, has opened on Irving Avenue in Bushwick with the mission of embedding the manufacturing process in the shopping experience.

The store at 219 Irving Avenue had its opening party Saturday, where colorfully dressed visitors used the range of bright textiles, vintage glassware and other home goods while a DJ — aided by pizza, wine and the sunny day — set a celebratory mood.

The shop’s founders are vintage collector Katie Beitzel, sewing teacher Lauren Hansen and her husband, photographer Cole Hansen (the couple also own textile business

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