Hi, I’m Danielle Franco.
And I’m Ely Franco.
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We’re up here in Tannersville, New York,
which is about 2 hours north of New York City.
We bought the house for 165,000 dollars.
But it needed a lot of work, and we ended up putting
about 40,000 dollars into it,
and that was with doing most of it completely ourselves.
This house is about 1500 square feet,
and we like to spend our weekends here when we can.
When we’re not here, we Airbnb it.
This is our dining area.
The first thing I loved about this house were the 16 foot windows.
The house was a complete mess when we got it.
The windows were the only saving grace.
Really the only reason we bought it to begin with.
I really worked extensively with my dad growing up,
on fixing up houses, building decks.
But we really had to learn a lot as we went along.
We ended up making this dining table ourselves.
We couldn’t find anything that fit our budget and fit the space,
so we said, let’s just make it ourselves.
This is our kitchen.
The biggest thing with the kitchen
was getting these cabinets level,
because the floor is just so un-level.
I definitely don’t do any of the cooking.
I’m not even allowed in the kitchen.
I think you can go in the kitchen,
it’s just you like when I do the cooking.
It’s true.
We’ve been truing to eat a little less meat lately.
So, I think mostly fish, and egg-based dishes.
Simple things.
Over here is our living space.
My favorite find for this house are definitely the hanging chairs.
We found them on clearance for 99 dollars.
Everything else we were looking at was super expensive,
like hundreds of dollars
So, when we found them we were like,
how many can we buy and where will we put them.
The most expensive thing in this house
is the couch from West Elm.
It was definitely a little more than we wanted to spend,
but I think really makes a good statement in the room.
The side tables in the living room are super cool I think,
because we actually made them.
We found the bases from West Elm on clearance.
They were actually planter bases.
And then the tops were Ely’s moms
that she collected in France.
We called this house the Hunter Greenhouse
because we’re the town of Hunter, and the county of Green.
And we also knew that plants were gonna play a big part
in our decor.
And then we took it a step further and painted the house green,
so that there’s no ambiguity
that this is the Hunter Greenhouse.
We were looking for interesting things to add to the house,
decor-wise.
So, we came up with this idea for a plant wall.
Up until about a few weeks ago
the plant wall only went up to here,
and now it goes the whole way up.
This is the downstairs bathroom.
There’s a small closet
in the bathroom that we really didn’t have any use for.
So, we ended up taking out the door,
and kinda refinishing it so it’s a little space to
get ready in while you’re taking a shower, leave your towel.
We actually ended up picking the paint color
based on this really creepy old painting
that we found,
and we really just wanted to match everything to that.
This is the one guest bedroom that I designed.
When we bought the house
there were these two
kinda similar downstairs bedrooms and
so we kinda just each took one to design.
We wanted it to feel more open,
so we actually took the closet doors off,
and Ely built these
really cool custom benches inside.
And I hung this branch for storage.
This is the bedroom that I designed.
Danielle likes to claim that
I somehow was attracted to this room, and
it was my mission to design this room,
but the reality is that this is the smaller room.
The bed frame we bought was actually from Ikea.
We spray painted it with automotive matte black spray paint.
Let’s go up to the loft.
This is our loft area.
We had a DIY wedding
at my family’s house in East Hampton.
These wood beams on the wall
are actually from the deck at the house.
They were the runners in the middle of the table
for the wedding.
Our vision for buying the house
was really as an escape from the city.
We both live and work full time in Manhattan,
so it’s nice to have a place to get away
for a weekend, or a week, and just unwind and relax.
We met in college.
We were at a Red Bull event
and I was wearing high heels,
and there was this handicap ramp I was trying to walk down
and someone had spilled their drink, so I fell.
And Ely saw it happen
and kinda came over to save the day,
scooped me up, took me to the corner of the room,
and he iced my knee all night.
I didn’t really know her name
or any contact information,
and then at the end of the night
we went our separate ways,
and somehow found our way back to each other.
And here’s our master bathroom.
I would never do penny tile ever again,
because, you know, you put it down, they come in sheets,
and you lay everything out,
and then you step back
and if it’s not perfectly inline
you see every single seam.
So, we actually had to take everything up and do it again.
We bought the concrete sink,
and then we actually
custom built the vanity around it and painted it green.
We also made this teak floor matte
with the little bench beside the shower.
And in here’s the master bedroom.
The master bedroom was actually one of the last rooms
that we designed.
We kinda established everything else in the house
and put this on the back burner.
It actually ended up being one of the coolest,
and everything kinda came together really well.
I think Ely is definitely the dreamer,
and I’m the realist.
He’s like, "Oh we need these hanging chairs,
we need this hammock," and I’m thinking,
"How are you hanging it?"
I really had to sell Danielle on the idea
because she didn’t think it made any sense.
He figured it out, and it’s really cool,
and it’s relaxing, and people really love it.
My favorite thing in the master has to be the wallpaper.
I think I was kinda against the wallpaper
because I didn’t want it to feel too old fashion,
but I think you find a really great one.
We found this really cool grayish-blue pattern.
I think it’s really cool.
I’m a dermatology PA,
so I see skin cancer, and rashes, and I treat acne,
and I also do fun stuff like cosmetics as well.
And I work for a software development company
that does accounting software for large law firms.
We both have pretty uncreative professions I would say.
It was nice to have an outlet
and a big project to
kinda funnel that creativity that we have into.
I think our favorite thing to do in this house
is just to sit with a good glass of wine,
and the hanging chair and listen to some records.
I think as long as you have a comfortable place to sit,
and a nice view, and these windows,
you’ll be okay.
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