Victorian Wpaper Patterns Biogoraphy
Months later, though, as real estate prices climbed, he called the seller back and asked if the house was still on the market. “She said: ‘Yeah. And I’ve lowered the price and stripped the woodwork in the kitchen.’ I showed Kei the pictures and called her back and said, ‘We’ll take it.’ ”
Mr. Dakota and Mr. Yip were recounting the story one recent morning while sitting in their “gentlemen’s library,” as Mr. Yip called it. With its built-in bookcases, ornate wallpaper, portières and heavy wood furniture, the room (like the entire house, in fact) resembles a fusty Victorian interior preserved in amber.
That was the idea, Mr. Dakota said: “We wanted it to feel like some old person had lived here for a long time and we just walked in. Which, of course, is not the case.”
Instead, the two, who bought the home for $545,000, have spent the last seven years and another $150,000 meticulously renovating it with the 19th century in mind, with Mr. Yip handling the mortgage payments and Mr. Dakota as a full-time carpenter and historical restoration expert.
Although “neither of us gave a damn about Victorian before we bought this house,” Mr. Dakota said, they are now well versed in subjects like the history of gas lighting and the Turkish corner fad, and have spent countless hours scouring antiques stores for period or period-looking furniture.
Mr. Dakota seems to be having as much fun decorating the house as he did dressing up nightclubs back in the 1980s. A giant clown face from that stage of his life hangs from the ceiling in the entry hall. Otherwise, Mr. Dakota said, he has been “fascistic” about eschewing any non-Victorian décor. Pointing to a group of oil paintings hanging in the front parlor, he deadpanned, “This is our collection of dreary landscapes.”
On the floor below the artwork was an odd, slightly disturbing piece of Victoriana: a 19th-century wooden gynecological examination table, picked up at an antiques store. “We use it as our coffee table,” Mr. Yip explained.
IF Mr. Dakota has an artistic medium, it’s wallpaper. In his old apartment in the East Village, which was featured in Nest, he canvased nearly every room in wallpaper, and he has done the same here, using reproduction and vintage-inspired patterns from companies like Clarence House and Bradbury & Bradbury.
“The overblown woodwork in a Victorian house creates a frame which cries out for a picture, which is wallpaper,” he said, being slightly overblown himself. “To ignore those cries is to live in disharmony with the space.”
Mr. Dakota restored the house room by room, starting on the top floor and working his way down, only recently completing the ground-floor kitchen, which has an Aga stove and a wood-slab dish drainer he made in his basement wood shop. “When we first moved here, it was kind of like camping out,” he said. “It looked like a cruddy box: no wallpaper, no plaster, all the floors were really crusty.” He has a few “adjustments” to make, he said, including finishing the master bedroom on the first floor (they rent out the top floor), but he has become so inspired that he has decided to go into business doing historical interior restoration.
Months later, though, as real estate prices climbed, he called the seller back and asked if the house was still on the market. “She said: ‘Yeah. And I’ve lowered the price and stripped the woodwork in the kitchen.’ I showed Kei the pictures and called her back and said, ‘We’ll take it.’ ”
Mr. Dakota and Mr. Yip were recounting the story one recent morning while sitting in their “gentlemen’s library,” as Mr. Yip called it. With its built-in bookcases, ornate wallpaper, portières and heavy wood furniture, the room (like the entire house, in fact) resembles a fusty Victorian interior preserved in amber.
That was the idea, Mr. Dakota said: “We wanted it to feel like some old person had lived here for a long time and we just walked in. Which, of course, is not the case.”
Instead, the two, who bought the home for $545,000, have spent the last seven years and another $150,000 meticulously renovating it with the 19th century in mind, with Mr. Yip handling the mortgage payments and Mr. Dakota as a full-time carpenter and historical restoration expert.
Although “neither of us gave a damn about Victorian before we bought this house,” Mr. Dakota said, they are now well versed in subjects like the history of gas lighting and the Turkish corner fad, and have spent countless hours scouring antiques stores for period or period-looking furniture.
Mr. Dakota seems to be having as much fun decorating the house as he did dressing up nightclubs back in the 1980s. A giant clown face from that stage of his life hangs from the ceiling in the entry hall. Otherwise, Mr. Dakota said, he has been “fascistic” about eschewing any non-Victorian décor. Pointing to a group of oil paintings hanging in the front parlor, he deadpanned, “This is our collection of dreary landscapes.”
On the floor below the artwork was an odd, slightly disturbing piece of Victoriana: a 19th-century wooden gynecological examination table, picked up at an antiques store. “We use it as our coffee table,” Mr. Yip explained.
IF Mr. Dakota has an artistic medium, it’s wallpaper. In his old apartment in the East Village, which was featured in Nest, he canvased nearly every room in wallpaper, and he has done the same here, using reproduction and vintage-inspired patterns from companies like Clarence House and Bradbury & Bradbury.
“The overblown woodwork in a Victorian house creates a frame which cries out for a picture, which is wallpaper,” he said, being slightly overblown himself. “To ignore those cries is to live in disharmony with the space.”
Mr. Dakota restored the house room by room, starting on the top floor and working his way down, only recently completing the ground-floor kitchen, which has an Aga stove and a wood-slab dish drainer he made in his basement wood shop. “When we first moved here, it was kind of like camping out,” he said. “It looked like a cruddy box: no wallpaper, no plaster, all the floors were really crusty.” He has a few “adjustments” to make, he said, including finishing the master bedroom on the first floor (they rent out the top floor), but he has become so inspired that he has decided to go into business doing historical interior restoration.
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