The designer shows Bob around the addition, pointing out certain highlights, such as the breezeway with exposed studs and the Victorian-influenced lighting design, as well as the creative and economical furnishing of the rooms.
Bob and landscape designer Ruth Foster tour the new formal courtyard and discuss how the plants will grow over time, granting privacy to guests and the homeowners.
Bob tours the furnished, decorated Martha’s Vineyard Victorian project house. The designer has sourced pieces from antique stores, salvage yards, second hand stores, and even Bob’s attic.
Bob and contractor Bob Ryley review costs for the Victorian-style remodel-and-build project in Martha’s Vineyard, MA.
Bob confers with artist Margo Datz about decorative striping and stenciling in the master bedroom. She demonstrates for Bob how to add a stencil pattern to painted wall trim.
In the kitchen, where the white pine cabinets have been installed, Bob Ryley demonstrates how to adjust a European door hinge before he finishes putting in a plate shelf that runs the roof’s perimeter.
Bob reviews progress in the kitchen, where pantry space and a tin ceiling have been installed, and where contractor Bob Ryley continues working on the staircase. In the master bath, the plumber demonstrates how to install a pedestal sink.
Bob takes a tour of Olana, a Victorian artist’s mansion in Upstate New York, overlooking the Hudson River. Named after a Persian fortress/treasure house, Olana has been dutifully preserved since the artist’s death in 1900.
Landscape designer Ruth Foster visits the project site to explain her choice of plantings for the formal courtyard garden.
Contractor Bob Ryles demonstrates how to install tin ceiling sheaths, a Victorian touch for the Martha’s Vineyard project house.
