A Visit to a Steampunked Home
by Jake von Sla
If you dropped by my house you’d probably be disappointe cause it’s simply not very steampunk. I do have plans, bu have come to fruition. However, a couple of weeks ago I was ed by Bruce Rosenbaum to visit his home in Sharon, Massach and what I found there was just stun
Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum started ModVic (Modern Vict Home Restoration in June 2007 and have now moved onto s punk Home Design. ModVic’s mission is to authentically r historic Victorian homes (1850 – 1910) to their original beau richness while completely modernizing the home’s systems, tional layout and conveniences for the family of today. Bruc Melanie also love the steampunk design aesthetic of combini best of Victorian high design and craftsmanship with modern tionality and usefu
Bruce’s home is a Craftsman style Victorian built in 1901. has filled it with unusual Craftsman era antiques. We’ll sta tour in Bruce’s kitchen with a lovely Victorian heater resto David Erickson, a local craftsman and restorer of antique who’s workshop is just down the street from my own. David fabulous job restoring this wonderful old stove, repainting th and cleaning and re-plating the nickel brightwork. In additio added a firebrick lining in places so the stove will continue to well and should last for decades to
Bruce designed and built the fire-back and hearth to comp the stove and installed the back-lit stained glass windows to br the entire kitchen. The hearth is cultured stone done by Br Mostecki of Cultured Masonry. The look of the stone matches c to the real fieldstone on the outside of the house. The stain gla salvaged from a home in New York that was being demo
The center of the kitchen is dominated by an antique pr bench topped with engineered quartz stone. The bench wasn’ large enough to fit the space so Bruce found a salvaged pe from a girl’s school near Boston and used it to extend the b The wide flat drawers of the bench were already ideal for k utensils and have just been repartition into appropriate size tions for cutlery and sundry implem
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