This will be especially nice for me

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Our loft is a very odd little bonus room at the top of the house, and even though right now you have to climb a crazy ladder to get up there, we still think it’s pretty cool. (One day we’d like to get some stairs put in, which some of our neighbors have.)

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So what does one do with an odd space like this? Make a man cave of course! We are planning to put all Fabio’s Yankee baseball memorabilia up here (he has TONS of it since he had season tickets for almost his whole life and was a bat boy/ball boy for the Yankees and Mets).
because in our old apartment he had it all hanging up in our bedroom. Thank goodness that’s going to change. Out of sight = out of mind.

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This is also the area that I mentioned we started painting, so it looks pretty different from this already! The back wall (which you can’t see from down below) is going to be white with blue Yankee pinstrips, and the side wall that goes down into the second bedroom is going to be Yankee grey (which actually is a nice grey color that hopefully won’t be too dark). We think the other walls are going to be a very light grey/whitish grey, but we want to see what the other two walls wind up looking like before we decide.

The loft keeps going to the right, and has a whole little side room area where we plan to bring up a small bar and beer fridge.

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Cute right? It’s definitely an awkward space but I think it’s perfect for a man cave (or a man “cove” as Aunt CC called it).

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And that’s it! Now you’ve seen the whole house! Obviously it needs a lot of work but for the location, price, and amount of space we get, we think it’s pretty great. Of course I wish we had a back yard for Jack (this was definitely a major downside, but at least we have a small front yard) however there are TONS of great parks nearby that we’ve been taking Jack too daily. Plus is has a parking spot – one that’s NOT parallel parking for once – so that’s been amazing too.

You know I’ll keep you posted on progress!

Question of the day: What do you think of the house? Any tips/thoughts/advice?


Peter Schouten was born in Sydney, Australia. From a very early age he developed a passion for all things feathered, furred and scaled – both extant and extinct – which led to a budding career in palaeontology.



His first artistic reconstructions in this field, when presented to the Australian list to data Museum, were subsequently published by them as the book ‘Prehistoric Animals of Australia’. The success of this book led to employment as a technical illustrator within the school of zoology at the University of New South Wales. After several years he left this post to commence his career as a freelance wildlife artist – a career which to date has encompassed many books and exhibitions. One of his most recent commissions, the so-called Hobbit, received significant attention when it featured on the front page of most newspapers around the globe.

His commitment to his craft continues unabated, and he particularly delights in painting creatures that either cannot or have not been photographed, due to extinction or rarity. It is also his aim to draw attention to the unfortunate plight of many of these creatures and to emphasise the need for urgent conservation. This was essentially the premise of his recent books ‘A Gap in Nature’ and ‘Astonishing Animals’, which for many provided the first, startling images of these wonderful animals, either lost or rare. Continuing in this vein, he has recently completed work on a new collection which challenges all of our preconceived images of those truly colossal animals of the past – the dinosaurs.