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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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Stay TUNED!

September 25, 2013 by Percy Bright 1 Comment

When we last left you, the little full-of-potential-but-currently-devoid-of-any-charm cabin in the Catskills we were working on looked something like this:

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“Not great” doesn’t even begin to cover it. But now we’re done!

Actually, we’ve been done. We packed up and (begrudgingly) shipped out of the Catskills just before Labor Day, and we’ve been neglecting our blog ever since. As usual. And when I say neglecting, I mean neglecting so willfully I can’t believe I’m even doing this right now. Not that I haven’t wanted to! “I should really do a blog post” is a thought that has popped up in my mind every day and then sunk back under only to resurface just as surely the next day. But here we are! Sort of.

The entire house is going to be on Remodelista next week, so unfortunately you’re going to have to wait a few more days to see what we did with the place. It’s a shame we aren’t better about documenting the process, because I’m not even sure the before and after photos will do justice to the amount of work we did.

We moved walls–lots of them. We spent days in a crawl space no taller than a foot in some places, redoing pretty much the entire house’s plumbing since we decided the bathroom had to move. We demo’d a big ugly kitchen worth of big ugly tiles, laid some new subfloor, and then we sanded, stained, cut, installed, and poly’d brand new hardwood floors. We built furniture, modified antique pieces from Brimfield to work as kitchen base cabinets, built open kitchen shelves, and tore out the sagging kitchen ceiling. We painted, painted, painted, and painted some more. And that’s probably doesn’t even cover half of it.

In the end, we took this place, with it’s oddly-shaped, barely functional rooms…

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…and turned it into this place:

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So stay tuned for the after photos! We can’t wait to share them with you all.

Filed Under: before and after, design, upstate Tagged With: before & after, design

What DAY Is It?

November 7, 2012 by Tara Mangini Leave a Comment

Tuesday, right?

Wow. That was an actual guess and I just checked and it’s literally Wednesday. I will never be able to prove this to you all, but take my word for it.

We are currently in the stage of this job that I like to call “The Total Worst”. That is to say, the total worst part of a situation that overall is amazing, so still not the world’s worst, but you know, the awful middle part of something that’s pretty great. Did I mention I’m high on floor stain fumes?

The coming together stage feels incredibly close, but as of today we are basically camping indoors, which I’ve been trying to think of a word for. If glamping is glamorous camping then we are… Riving? (Rough living.) Hamping? (Home camping.) Seriously, it’s the fumes.

I had big hopes to keep this blog orderly and compartmentalized but today I throw caution to the wind. Which according to the weather forecast will also be filled with snow any minute now.

Instead, enjoy this scattered glimpse into our lives (and the house) today. Everything you see is exactly how it really is.

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A new kitchen in the works. And PS it’s going to be beautiful.

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The future home of one very amazing sink.

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Can’t wait to get some paint on this wall.

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Fire hazards and coffee making.

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An old newspaper found behind the cabinets. And yes, those are The Beatles.

nov7-05
Wish list.

nov7-06
Quarantine floor refinishing area. Keds on guard.

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One day this will be a dining room.

nov7-08
A door is born.

nov7-09
These floors need some TLC. But I still love them.

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The new door. Even better from the outside.

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Refinishing floors means no dust which means, no heat. Yay!

nov7-12
Upstairs bathroom gets a make-over.

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One day I will take a warm bath in here.

nov7-13
Sweet homeless dresser from Brimfield.

nov7-14
The great divide & small bedroom #1.

nov7-15
Pillow storage and small bedrooms #2 and 3.

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The master bedroom. On the way to perfection.

nov7-18
Plaster makes everything better.

nov7-19
Winter view from the sunroom. Sun nowhere to be found.

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Where I’m sitting. Right this very moment.

Filed Under: farmhouse, home, vintage, winter Tagged With: behind the scenes, design

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