Wow, that is fantastic, what a house. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure I probably couldn't live there, but I love it. The kitchen is beautiful, quite the sink! The legs on the island are incredible too. The clown in the front hall ceiling is a little terrifying though.

I love that wooden drainboard at the sink.

Kitchen, yes! (Clown, NO.)

Too bad about the wire under the kitchen island. I would try to move the electric source and run a wire down one of the legs to hide it a bit. I know it's not a big deal, but with so much attention to other details it kind of jumped out at me as not fitting in.

The Pike's Peak Gray is really a lovely color.

What do you think the kitchen floor is?

Wow, how could you do such a great job on everything and then put the clown there?

The link doesn't work for me. waaaa.

You guys have me cracking up about the clown. (Which I love, btw!) By any chance did you click on the link for the accompanying story about the owners and the reno? One of them, Reno Dakota, is a former prop stylist who used to decorate nightclubs in NYC's East Village. Apparently, the clown is a remnant of one of those places. Given the rather dark and severe victorian-inspired ambiance of this house, I think the clown brings a nice touch of levity to the place.

I agree that the clown brings a touch of levity, but it would freak me out nevertheless. :)

Just read the article, the quote below caught my attention. There certainly is some fabulous wallpaper in the house.

"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."

I love the idea of a touch of levity -- but the clown totally creeps me out.
That is ONE too many clowns in the room.

There had to be a better way of bringing electric to the island.
I love the soft grayish blue paint in the kitchen and the breakfast seating area,

Thanks for sharing!

Here is a link that might be useful: Victorian reno Bedford- Stuyvesant

Ok. here's a wild idea for a house that's not afraid of "funky" (but that clown's gotta go or I only enter thru another door!)

For that awful cord in the kitchen, why not put an animal figurine, such as a cat or something, over it, with the cord disguised as a leash or a tail?

That's all I could come up with.

Love that Aberdeen Ferns wallpaper!

That house is beautiful, only dislikes are the clown and the island, both are out of place. The bedroom and eating nook have a nice bit of eclectic funkiness that mixes well with the house, the clown is just too- hey!!! look at how hip, fab, and young I am- and it is so inconsistent with the rest of the house that it looks ridiculous. The island is just a no, pool table legs with hotel hairdryer umbilical cord, ugh. But both are easy fixes, wonder what the bathrooms look like.

Oh my goodness, I was expecting a clown standing in a foyer, not a clown on the ceiling blowing a light-bulb booger. No thank you!

Would this have been a "back kitchen" it's so plain compared to the rest of the house. The island legs fit with the house, but not the kitchen.

What a fabulous restoration! I'm not a big fan of the kitchen--it doesn't quite seem to fit, either from a historical perspective (utiltiarian) or from a historical revisionist perspective (if Victorians didn't have servants and had access to modern conveniences...). Although the sink and the drainboard are fabulous.

Personally, I hate the clown, but we all have stuff in our houses that are there because they are nods to our own personal history or our own quirks. The clown is Mr. Dakota's.

Thanks, francoise!

Wild - my house now looks calm. We do NOT have a clown in the hallway!
We have similar dark wood trim (Edwardian - just between Victorian and Craftsman, so slightly simpler than theirs but not as plain as a craftsman trim) but did not go the wallpaper route, which would have been appropriate for the time. Interesting that they used Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, I always thought of it as Arts & Crafts.
Kitchen seems out of place to me. Where's the wallpaper? The dark trim?
I'm now pondering if wallpaper might tone down the yellow in my kitchen.
Thanks for posting!

Spot on re the clown, Cawaps! To each his/her own in the display of personal decorations and affects. And, to take it a bit further -- I want to repeat how much I absolutely love this kitchen! I don't care that it doesn't "fit" the rest of this otherwise meticulously restored house. In fact, I'm not the least bit bothered by the exposed floor outlet in the kitchen, nor the piano legs for the island -- or even the use of a 19th century gyn's examining table as a coffee table, for that matter! My guess is that the owners, while paying strict attention to period appropriateness for the most part, also had a compelling urge to occasionally draw outside the lines. As such, I see these scattered "quirks" in their design scheme as intentional departures from the straight and narrow design parameters of the mid-late 19th century. (Yes, pun intended). :-) The result is a vic era-inspired house restoration and repro which also includes a bit of 21st century "shock and awe", some clever assertions of personal identity and doses of thumb-nosing decorating humor. Which only makes me love this house all the more! To hell with cookie cutter design! On that last note, athomeinva, although the owners may be attempting to reflect some NYC East Village/Brooklyn cultural "hipness", one glance at their photo makes me doubt they're trying to say they are "young," :-)

I love the whole thing, especially the clown! Great find.