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As the oldest granddaughter of a mason, part of the reason I fell in love with Old Beekman was all of its 1950s brick...
I often feel overwhelmed and paralyzed when thinking about my home projects in giant categories: “the exterior”, “the landscape”, or “the basement”. One of my favorite things about Continuous Improvement is the tenet of decomposing ...
If you have noticed, so far, very little has been said over here about our Dining Room. It is, as the kids say these days, not “Instagram-ready”.
I am guessing if you came back to check out this post, you need nourishment beyond coffee, wine and chocolate. We do too — sometimes. Ha ha ha.
It is difficult not to start each post relating where we are at this stage of 2020 Old Beekman, with where we started our journey with her back in 2015...
Picture this: it is raining or snowing (New Jersey has a healthy amount of snow accumulation in the Winter). You have a car full of groceries. You have a months-old baby in his carseat; a ...
Sometimes I get impatient with how much we need to wait for what in my mind are "very much needed" restorations in our home.
Even though we don’t have an open-concept house, we were intentional during our renovation to give the home a much needed flow.
Our floor plan was modern, our kitchen was rustic modern, and our children were safe and happy in their bedrooms. Yet, it was mid 2016, a whole year after we had purchased our home, and ...
Due to popular demand, we created a tutorial on how you can make an upholstered headboard!
Who recalls the first time Old Beekman acted up and gave me insight into the Lady Beekman-version of me who would eventually become my business-self? LOL
One of the things I have always been mindful of in my design aesthetic (besides high functionality!), is defining a vision, a tone, a mood for my spaces...
We have always dreamed of having a home centered in our kitchen, where our family seems to spend most of its time...
As we previously mentioned, we would have loved doing our massive renovation in phases...
Three months after we moved in, we embarked on a five-month journey of renovating our home with a local construction company...
Within the first month we were living chez Old Beekman, it became abundantly clear we needed to start with the basic elements: Water, Air, Fire, and Earth...
If you read these blog entries in chronological order, how I, Lígia, eventually pivoted my Industrial Engineering degree into Interior Design, and appropriately named my company Lady Beekman, will become quite clear.
We fell in love with our second home over Easter weekend 2015.
Two years passed with some simple projects and the adjustments to sleep schedules. My travel ramped up, but Lígia couldn’t come to Brussels or Singapore anymore...
You might ask us: what about the big projects? The fancy kitchen and the stylish bathrooms? Well, we were both working full time, and both had travel...
Since we purchased the townhome, Lígia, the organizer of us, dreamed of turning our large-yet-inefficient “1 shelf + 1 hanging bar” master closet, into a place for...
Sit back and relax while I tell you a story about the home and life journey that brought us to Lady Beekman...
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