Pictures of the window, because you asked. Sorry for the lack of photos lately – Johanna and Ry haven’t been in for a bit, and we didn’t want to sear your eyes shut with our own amateurish attempts. All these are from Johanna. The window is a little over 10′ high by 12′ wide, with [...]
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Skills
Tangentially acquired in the course of opening a restaurant: Ceiling patching Tiling Basic and advanced troweling Paint rollering Ladder wrangling Obsessive wall sanding Tile cutting Piano moving Graduate level putty removal (did you know they used to mix cement into the stuff?) Window glazing Grouting Cement removal Pressure washing and degreasing Not cursing even when [...]
Breath
It’s hard to believe how much has happened in the last week, and how much is coming together all of a sudden. Two days after clearing several hundred gallons of water out of the building, we flew to Riga to get the visas needed to make this project happen. Visas were gotten, we got back [...]
Rough
It’s been a tough week. On Sunday, a couple hundred gallons of water came through our ceiling thanks to the typhoon that hit Somerville. In spite of “global weirding” causing once-a-century rainstorms every second year, we don’t expect this to be an ongoing problem, thankfully. A combination of a clogged roof drain, a badly pitched [...]
Parallel processing
We’ve hit a phase where construction rolls quickly and there’s a lot happening with relatively little interference from us. HVAC is complete. Hot water heaters got plumbed in, wires are now snaking through studs everywhere, the lighting plan is more or less done, though we need to find specific fixtures. You can even see where [...]
Happened today
On every construction project, there comes a point where the design team starts to have to scramble to keep feeding the construction team enough information for them to continue working uninterrupted. We hit that point today, and fortunately, we have enough going that Ben and Nick can keep going for another day or two – [...]
Mondays
Mondays are hard. For whatever reason, weekends seem to make everyone involved in construction nervous, with attendant blowups and firefighting on the Monday to follow. This one was no different – an air conditioning duct went up in a bad spot and had to get moved, plumbers put some pipes up where they shouldn’t have, [...]
Structure
Construction this week has gone pretty quickly. We’ve completed just about every wall that will exist in the space – the last one is getting framed today. In effect, you can now see then entire volume of the restaurant outlined in studwall. We kind of like it this way – it’s a connect the dots [...]
Builders
We’re working with Other City Builders, a small company based in Union Square. They’re building the neighborhood practically single-handed – Sherman Market & Sherman Cafe, the patio for Ronnarong, Open Bicycle, Taqueria la Mexicana, Grand, and now Journeyman. Ben and Nick met while working at Toscanini’s, and Ben and his wife Karyn are co-owners of [...]
Skylight
Our friend in the park this morning: “So, the place is a wreck, you have no money, and you are wondering what you got yourself into, right?” That’s the voice of 25 years of experience in architecture and construction. Last week, the crew mutinied (Ben’s word) and asked if they could rip down the drop [...]
