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On this episode of The Better Buy , Renovation Husbands , David and Stephen St. Russell , share dwelling restoration tips and talk about how they invented greige paint .
The Better Buy , a new podcast from Better Homes & Gardens , explore all things home — from decorating and DIY to renovating and budgeting . Each week , we ’ll speak with homeowners from around the nation about the highs and low of home ownership , and share account , advice , and practical bakshis you could put to work in your own home . We ’re on a mission to root on and empower you to create your pipe dream home . fresh sequence every Wednesday !
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On This Episode
Host Mélanie Berliet talks with the Renovation Husbands ( @renovationhusbands ) . The duo is revivify their 1893 New England Victorian , which is part of Boston ’s historic Streetcar suburbs , one Instagram post at a prison term . Their 100 of thousands of Instagram followers get to go behind the setting as they document their elbow room - by - way DIY journeying to modernise their base while keeping an eye towards preserving its history .
Meet the Renovation Husbands
David and Stephen St. Russell , are the married man - husband team behind the democratic societal media handle and web log , Renovation Husbands . They bought the gutted 1893 Victorian home 5 years ago and started document its way - by - room transformation . While Stephen is an architectural interior decorator by trade , the span were tiro when it come to household improvement and design , so with each project , their followers are learning properly along with them . Now they ’re the 2022 recipient of the Annual Preservation Achievement Award from the Boston Preservation Alliance .
Advice from the Episode
David and Stephen St. Russell share their advice for quicken a plate , preserving character , and their favourite splurge vs. save tips .
" We put an Ikea kitchen in this house . It was this balancing act of , ' how do we do amodern Victorian ? ' We put this kitchen in , and we actually really liked it . Until we bug out doing the residue of the domicile . We do the parlor task . That was the one that had the biggest impact on our conclusion about the kitchen . It really changed the spirit [ of the house ] , and all of the sudden , that room was just totally out of place . And not to the quality that our skillset had become . We ’re [ reconstruct ] it now . I call back if you have the chance to kind of master plan , do that . Ours was such a surge in the beginning , and we knew we require those blank space you involve to use every day . It was a deterrent example learned . We bang the kitchen standalone , but not with the rest of the theatre . “Stephen St. Russell
Biggest Mistake They’ve Made When Renovating
" Sometimes when you ’re on a platform like Instagram , it ’s really easy to go through a lot of idea . You ’re like , ' Oh , I love the look of this , ' and ' I wish the feel of this . ' Then you just have 30 Pinterest boards , and you have nothing cohesive . But if you just look in your own backyard , there [ are ] really beautiful thing that make more common sense , probably , to your dwelling that you’re able to guide inspiration from . “David St. Russell
Where Do They Find Renovation Inspiration
" We always advance everybody to check out their local lumberyard . encounter out where it is , go . citizenry have a [ misconception ] that it ’s expensive and a little routine scary , but really , in our experience , everyone ’s been very prissy to non - commercial residential buyers . The quality is much good , and it ’s usually less expensive . So , we always encourage masses to go that route . Get some trim profiles . They ’ll have lots of samples . And just , make a 24-hour interval trip out — make it a particular date . “David St. Russell
Money Saving Tips for DIYers
" The Barbrahas become , like , a thing on Instagram . And , we love it ! The phylogenesis of Barbra : We had been appear for a beige , greige , grey for our cabinet for a very long time . We want to get it correct because it also had to carry on onto our trim work and through our hallways . We initially decided and set ashore on Accessible Beige by Sherman Williams . The storage locker society then had to repair that . They charge us a sample distribution and it did n’t match utterly , which they let us know might bechance , but we love the color even more . We find oneself after paint Accessible Beige on some trimness piece of work that it had a small minute of garden pink in it . The sample doorway did n’t have pink in it . So , we beget that matched at Sherman Williams and [ that ] became Barbra . We got the code for it and shared the code . Now , people are redoing , like , full kitchen in Barbra . “Stephen St. Russell
