Over the course of the renovation, every painting, bibelot and piece of furniture was removed, cleaned and cataloged while the building was restructured, rewired and replumbed.
Two of the buyers -- Arthur Spears, a professor of anthropology at City College and Marcus Edward, a banker -- say they were encouraged to sign on for upgrades and extras by their contractor, John Cross, founder and owner of Cross Construction, only to be told during the course of the renovation that what they wanted was too complex.
A NYONE interested in the meandering course of redecoration and renovation should stop at the White House Visitor Center, across from the southeast gate, at the north end of the Commerce Building.
The five-story town house at 12 East 76th Street, built in 1882, attracted such intense interest from buyers seeking a state-of-the-art residence with a classical exterior — in the course of a gut renovation that began in 2008, red brick was replaced with Italian limestone — that it was never formally listed on the market.
In the course of a recent renovation at the University of Pennsylvania, they named seating terraces (i.e., benches) for donors who chipped in $50,000.
Of course, major renovations never come cheap.
Over the course of its history the stadium has gone through various stages of renovation and development, resulting in the current stand configuration of the Holte End, Trinity Road Stand, North Stand and the Doug Ellis Stand.
The show follows Mr. Van Winkle through a single renovation over the course of 10 episodes as he overhauls, corner by corner, a 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot 7,000-square-foot — a house that donsn't say Addison Mizner as much as it says boom-era Gothic revivalakeMansinn down on its luck.
You could practically see each unrelated renovation over the course of 100 years.
"Its fundamental aspect -- a championship golf course and the renovation of the Eugene Meyer mansion -- hasn't changed".
