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    Jersey Ice Cream Co was founded in the summer of 2010. Two kids in love found an old embossing stamp at a flea market, dreamed up a design empire, and then set to work trying to create it. Today Tara Mangini and Percy Bright spend their time moving house to house, job to job, leaving beautiful homes in their wake. They believe in craftsmanship, timelessness, and leaving things better than they found them. They do not make ice cream, but will happily have some if you’re offering.

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Bye Bye, STAINLESS

April 15, 2013 by Percy Bright 1 Comment

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For some reason, at some point in the last few decades, some idiot decided that appliances should no longer be available in custom colors. And after seeing a bunch of grandma-house atrocities while house hunting in Philly yesterday, I can’t blame him (yeah, it was definitely a dude). But something tells me all the major appliance manufacturers just got together one day and decided over stiff cocktails, the fewer options the “better” (read: cheaper). And so began the reign of stainless, black, and white. Not a lot of fun for us designers!

Now you’re probably saying to yourself, “Smeg, Smeg, Smeg!” Yeah, we get it! They’re adorable. Just like a wittle kitten. Cute, but too small to get much done. The first time Tara and I saw one in real life (after gushing over a bunch of pictures), we couldn’t believe how tiny it was. Plus they only come as a fridge or a freezer, not both.

Enter Big Chill Fridge! Well, twelve years ago–I’m a little late on this one. But how awesome are those colors? Not only do they have normal-person-size and Smeg-size fridge-slash-freezers, they also have ranges and range hoods and dishwashers and microwaves. Check out Drew Barrymore’s kitchen below!

Now all we need is a big-budget kitchen job.

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Filed Under: design

Just in TIME for SPRING!

April 14, 2013 by Percy Bright Leave a Comment

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Well it might not really be Spring related, but National Geographic’s recently started posting a huge archive of old travel photos to this new tumblr of theirs.

There are about a thousand other photos I want to post here, but I’ll refrain. Go check it out for yourself!

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Filed Under: photography Tagged With: travel

CUTTING a PERFECT CIRCLE

April 9, 2013 by Percy Bright Leave a Comment

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We’re pumped to announce that yesterday we put the finishing touches on the second Bryn & Dane’s location! (For a few pictures from the facelift we gave the first location, click here.)

Oh, and you’re all invited to the big launch party this Thursday from 5-8pm at 400 Horsham Road! Get ready for some awesome local food, beer, and healthy cocktails. Plus you’ll get to see the finished sign and the rest of the new space, which we decked out with tons of beautiful reclaimed wood we literally pulled off the side of a barn up in Phillipsburg NJ. If you aren’t able to make it Thursday, keep checking back here for photos of the new space and the barn where we sourced all the beautiful wood.

On to the circle cutting!

You could obviously trace out a perfect circle in pencil, then do your best with a sure hand, a steady eye, and a jig or band saw. But it’ll never be perfect that way.

Cutting a perfect circle really isn’t as hard as it sounds. Especially if you have a Rockler circle cutting jig and a nice router. You don’t? Me neither. Lucky for us, even a scrap of wood, a single screw, and a crappy little palm router will do the trick, though you might find your router smoking and burnt out by the end if you’ve constantly pushed it too hard.

Here’s what you do: Find yourself a long enough scrap and notch out one end so your router fits snugly. At the other end, drill a hole a little wider than your screw. The distance between screw hole and router notch out (adding in the extra distance to the router bit, about 1.5 inches on a palm router) will be the radius of the final circle, so plan accordingly! Fire your screw in and go to town, increasing the depth of your cut just a little on each pass so your router doesn’t suffer the same fate as mine.

Voila! Now stay tuned for the finished sign. She’s a real beaut.

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Filed Under: design Tagged With: behind the scenes, DIY, how to

Now PRINCE CHARLES APPROVED

April 2, 2013 by Percy Bright 1 Comment

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I went over to Remodelista this morning to show Tara their article on Superfront, who’ve taken Ikea hacks to a whole new level with their beautiful cabinet fronts and pulls. (Fingers crossed that they follow the Ikea model of flat packing and shipping to the US at crazy low prices.)

Anyway, what did I see on top of Remodelista’s homepage but the Upstate NY kitchen we designed! We had no idea that was coming and are so, so honored to be featured today. Thanks, guys!

Filed Under: press Tagged With: press

FREE Five-Minute FRAMES

March 22, 2013 by Percy Bright 2 Comments

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More than one person thought I’d lost it when I started cladding a bedroom wall with lath I’d saved after pulling down a dividing wall between my dining room and kitchen. But even before I’d finished, I knew I was in love. That was almost four years ago. (Yikes!) Ever since then I’ve found it impossible to pass a city dumpster without peering inside. Usually I’ll see nothing but rubbish. Every once in a while, though, I’ll come upon a few bundles of lath and maybe even some old tongue-and-groove flooring or joists or studs with stripes running down the side where plaster made it through the gaps in the lath. Pure history and possibility.

When you need to work some magic on a tight budget, it doesn’t get any better than free. Today we managed to whip together three wall hangings for around five dollars total. That includes the botany charts, from a set of thirty we scored at Brimfield last year for next to nothing. Oh, and it only took about five minutes.

First we cut the lath to length–four strips per chart, two on top and two on bottom–allowing for a slight overhang on either side. Then we stapled the tops and bottoms of each chart to the front strips of lath from behind, before lining up the back strips of lath and securing them to the front strips with 1/2″ screws, charts sandwiched in between. One hanger per chart and voila!

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Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: DIY

Upstate BEFORE + AFTER: One for the Ages

March 4, 2013 by Percy Bright 11 Comments

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Here it is! The moment we’ve all been waiting for. The two of us, anyway. Before and After photos from the farmhouse transformation we just finished in upstate New York.

Big thanks to everyone for their support along the way and to Debby and her family for making this all possible. Enjoy!

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And there’s a whole lot more where that came from! Read on for the rest.

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NEWS, NEWS, and more NEWS!

March 3, 2013 by Percy Bright 2 Comments

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First off, welcome to our new site and blog! We’ve just finished making the leap from Blogspot to WordPress, and couldn’t be happier.

It’s barely March and this year is already whizzing by. We spent most of January in Hawaii (please don’t hate us) and then put the finishing touches on a five-month-long job renovating and furnishing a farmhouse in upstate New York (thanks, Debby!) that we started way back in September. The project was just featured on Design*Sponge last Thursday as a Before & After and will be up there again tomorrow as a Sneak Peek. (Many thanks to Amy at D*S!)

We can hardly wait to share a ton of other before and after photos with you on our blog tomorrow!

We also managed to squeeze in a quick coffee shop bar buildout near Cold Spring, NY, that we still need to photograph. And we have about a million other projects looming. Stressed stressed stressed. But can’t wait to share it all with you!

Filed Under: press

CANE CHAIR MAKEOVER

February 20, 2013 by Percy Bright Leave a Comment

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We were contacted a couple weeks ago to do some work for a coffee shop opening up near Cold Spring in upstate NY. In addition to building out the bar with reclaimed hemlock joists and old scaffolding planks (photos hopefully upcoming! but you know us), we managed to squeeze in a couple chair makeovers.

Formerly sat upon at Daily Press in Bed Stuy (for which we also did some work before they opened a couple years ago), these two chairs were on their way to the dumpster because of their damaged caning. (We neglected to take before photos, as usual!) Replacing the caning would’ve taken more time than we had, and been more boring then we wanted, so we decided to cut the old stuff out and fit some reclaimed barn wood to the gorgeous shape left in its wake. The results were even better than expected! They have a vague animal-hide look about them that we just love, plus they’re vegan friendly. Sustainable. Gluten-free.

Filed Under: before and after, DIY, handmade, reclaimed wood, seating

ETSY BLOG FEATURE

February 19, 2013 by Percy Bright Leave a Comment


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We’re honored to have been featured on the Etsy blog over the weekend for their Get the Look series. Check out the full write-up here, as well as our featured Airbnb listings here and here!

Filed Under: press

Our Second Sneak Peek!

August 21, 2012 by Percy Bright Leave a Comment

Remember when we moved into our summer sublet and it looked like this?

Well, we’ve made some major changes over the past few weeks and are so happy to share the space transformation with you all. We’re even more thrilled that one of our favorite blogs wanted to feature our little slice of summer heaven too!

Check out the design*sponge post here! And a few photos that didn’t quite make the cut:

Filed Under: home, new york, photography, press

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