Madison Square
Two married architects living in an 1870's brick rowhouse on a garden block in Center City Philadelphia. We work, we work on our house, we take pictures with our iphones and try to write a little something that makes sense. What you see is what we did… it’s just how we roll.
2012: Half a Year in Review, Part II
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- Published on Friday, 11 January 2013
Authors: madisonsquare
Sure, the first half of 2012 was busy, but the second half was worth it just for these two photos…
July:
We installed our beautiful new stained glass window in our renovated and restored living room with the help of McElf and our families! We stared at the window for a few days, then busted our booties to get ready for...
2012: Half a Year in Review, Part I
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- Published on Tuesday, 08 January 2013
Authors: madisonsquare
2012 was officially a busy year: I’m exhausted just perusing our posts from January thru June. The first half of the year was a really long build up to two exciting July events: our stained glass window installation and our final construction inspection by the city, both of which were in July (so stay tuned for part 2)....
2012: Half a Year in Review
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- Published on Monday, 07 January 2013
Authors: madisonsquare
2012 was officially a busy year: I’m exhausted just perusing our posts from January thru June. The first half of the year was a really long build up to two exciting July events: our stained glass window installation and our final construction inspection by the city, both of which were in July (so stay tuned for part...
Stealth Project
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2013
Authors: madisonsquare
Happy New Year! To celebrate 2013 we’re blogging about a stealth mini project circa August 2012…
Sometimes project ideas happen by accident. This one happened when we were spray painting our living room radiator cover in the alley. A neighbor was moving and along with a few old chairs etc she brought out a beat up...
Red Green Grey
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- Published on Monday, 17 December 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
Our house is officially ready for Christmas! Garland and lights, with some help from a big red door:
Santa makes his exterior appearance – he has spent his last 6+ years as an indoor Santa:
Looking good for your age, Santa:
Of course the boxwoods wanted some love as well:
As for interior decorations, we decided to forgo a...
Ready to Slide
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- Published on Sunday, 09 December 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
Time to finish framing the basement sliding door wall.
A few 2×3′s and screws later… Done and we even got the overhead track in.
We have been using Johnson Hardware sliding door hardware throughout the house. They are reasonably priced and the extruded aluminum track and nylon wheels are really good quality and...
Sunday Odds Ends
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- Published on Monday, 03 December 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
We took advantage of today’s unseasonably warm weather to check off a few items off of our to do list…
Kelly put another coat of poly on the back steps.
And another coat on the deck threshold.
And while we had the door down, we repaired more of the rot on the deck door. It was starting to go when we bought the house...
December Doings
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- Published on Saturday, 01 December 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
New parking permit.. must be December 1st!
Before it gets too cold, Rob applied another coat of protective poly on our back steps:
I spent some time putting away fall decor and unpacking a few Christmas items. Here’s our nesting matryoshka tree that we brought back from Russia this fall:
Aaaand we’re back in the...
Spray Paint, Our Friend
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- Published on Thursday, 29 November 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
Somehow we forgot to tell the story of our living room radiator cover. If you were paying super close attention, you may have noticed it went from this:
Stark white glossy metal, plain front:
To this:
Warm matte bronze, still metal, but with some articulation in the front panel:
We swapped in the slightly more detailed dining...
Exhausted!
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Authors: madisonsquare
Sunday morning started with a pile of sheet metal…
And after some measuring and sketching we figured out how to fit it all together in the very tight space.
The first piece we had to make was a plenum box behind the exterior discharge louver. Both the basement shop exhaust and kitchen exhaust dump into this box, each with...
