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On This Episode
Host Melanie Berliet talks with the Renovation Husbands (@renovationhusbands).
They bought the gutted 1893 Victorian home 5 years ago and started documenting its room-by-room transformation.
Now they’re the 2022 recipients of the Annual Preservation Achievement Award from the Boston Preservation Alliance.
“We put an Ikea kitchen in this house.
It was this balancing act of, ‘how do we do amodern Victorian?’
We put this kitchen in, and we actually really liked it.
Until we started doing the rest of the home.
We do the parlor project.
That was the one that had the biggest impact on our decision about the kitchen.
And not to the quality that our skillset had become.
We’re [redoing] it now.
I think if you have the opportunity to kind of master plan, do that.
It was a lesson learned.
We love the kitchen standalone, but not with the rest of the house.
Then you just have 30 Pinterest boards, and you have nothing cohesive.
Find out where it is, go.
The quality is much better, and it’s usually less expensive.
So, we always encourage people to go that route.
Get some trim profiles.
They’ll have lots of samples.
And just, make a day trip outmake it a date.
And, we love it!
We initially decided and landed on Accessible Beige by Sherman Williams.
The cabinet company then had to recreate that.
The sample door didn’t have pink in it.
So, we got that matched at Sherman Williams and [that] became Barbra.
We got the code for it and shared the code.
Now, people are redoing, like, full kitchens in Barbra.
