Just a quick heads-up to everyone that our next appearance on This Old House  is this weekend. We will be walking Becky & Kevin through our final designs for the renovation. With the structural work wrapping up, we are really looking forward to showing everyone where the interiors are headed next! Check your local listings for exact show times, and be sure to watch our blog or Like us on Facebook for updates about our remaining appearances.

On Newsstands Now!

We are so happy to announce that our latest project at The Clarendon in Boston is featured in the current edition of New England Home Magazine (the November/December issue). Special thanks to the fine folks at New England Home for a super article, to photographer Greg Premru for his fantastic shots, and to Mokum Textiles for providing some of the fabrics for the project.  Stay tuned for another posting on Mokum soon- we love their stuff! In the meantime, see our Press Page for more details about the project, and be sure to pick up a copy of New England Home at your local newsstand.

For those of you who missed the show this past weekend, a video of our initial appearance on This Old House is now available online. We are featured in Chapter 5 of Episode #8, which starts around minute 17 of the online videocast.  Be sure to check our blog or Like us on Facebook for updates about our future appearances.

In the meantime, many thanks to the cast and crew for helping make this project such a wonderful first-time experience for us. And a special thanks to homeowners Joe & Becky Titlow for their kind words about working with us. The feeling is mutual, Becky!!!

Andrew & Dee with Kevin O'Connor in Bedford.

So we are getting ready for the airing of our first This Old House episode this weekend, and everyone at Terrat Elms is very excited! In this episode (#8 of the season), we show host Kevin O’Connor a project that we previously completed in Cambridge and that inspired the Bedford project’s new kitchen design.

The house is a gut renovation of an old worker’s cottage dating from 1877, and Becky Titlow (this season’s TOH homeowner) immediately responded to photos of the home’s great new kitchen space.  We walk Kevin through the first floor of the home, touch on our design inspirations, and explain how the elements of the project will translate to Becky and Joe’s antique home in Bedford.

Be sure to tune in to the show to get a glimpse of our progress to date. Note that show times vary depending on your viewing area, so check the This Old House website for specific show times and dates or watch the webcast of our first episode beginning next week. In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!!!

Next week we will be installing our This Old House project in Bedford. Time sure does fly. It seems like just yesterday we were meeting with the homeowners for the first time and talking about all of our ideas for the house.

We will be meeting the Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams delivery truck early on Monday morning, and we won’t be stopping until we are done. Our first episode airs Thanksgiving weekend. In the meantime, you will just have to make due with a few photos of the progress to date. Stay tuned for updates!

The new exterior color looks super!

The kitchen island awaiting the new countertops.

The living room before final trim and paint.

The front hallway is still a work-in-progress.

The new wallpaper is ready to go up.

Chromalab does the most amazing things.  Not only do they do an unbelievable job spraying furniture, but they also create hand-painted canvas that is hung like wallpaper.  At the This Old House project they are going to help us in all areas.  They are going to spray some plain jane counter stools a hot red, do decorative painting in the Study, and do a custom canvas wall treatment in the Powder Room. 

Here’s a sampling of their work, and you can of course see more on their website:

A fantastic rainbow in the foyer

Stenciled canvas in the hallway

Red stenciled wallpaper in the powder room

A closeup of another fantastic design

Right now the house is a full blown construction site, but we are told it will all be completed and ready for us in a few short weeks.  Here’s a glimpse of the great color palette we are working on…

The presentation board for the new Bedford project

There are touches of blue in all the rooms with fun pops of color throughout. We can’t wait to show you more on the show.  Stay tuned!!!

The views of Mid-Manhattan are sensational, and the finishes in the units are to die for.  Related Companies is the developer, and they do such amazing work!  The units were just photographed yesterday- here are a few preview shots:

The Living Room in Unit 1

The Guest Room in Unit 1

The Living Room in Unit 2

Another shot of the Unit 2 Living Room

The Master Bedroom in Unit 2

The Guest Bedroom in Unit 2