Photography by April Valencia, courtesy of Rip & Tan, except where noted.
Lately we’ve been admiring the Catskills farmhouse of writer and florist Lisa Przystup, first spotted via Jenni Kayne’s site Rip & Tan.
The couple set about transforming the house from the inside, doing most of the work themselves, DIY-style on weekends: “For the larger projects like the porch and excavation we called in the professionals because, well, we don’t know how to run an excavator,” Przystup says.
Przystup in the living room of the farmhouse.
“There was a lot of brick red paint in the house that I wanted to get rid of,” Przystup says.
A vintage horse print and collected stones, arranged artfully.
A vintage screen, a gift from a friend, hangs above a West Elm couch.
The farmhouse kitchen, transformed with small, budget-minded upgrades.
“Doing small things like changing out the cabinet hardware was a quick, cheap, and easy way to change the feel of the kitchen,” Przystup says.
A simple DIY upgrade: a brass backsplash.
Favorite finds include Kentucky stoneware from Kaufmann Mercantile and a bread baking bowl from a friend’s shop in Syracuse, Indiana.
A dining nook in the kitchen. The kitchen and one bedroom had acoustic ceiling tiles; Linaberry and a friend removed them themselves and installed untreated pine tongue-and-groove ceiling.
The sparse entryway has a peg rail from Peg & Rail.
Throughout, original charm and simplicity was left intact.
A flag, a vintage find that Przystup thinks she found at Stella Dallas Living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hangs above the stair landing.
Farmhouse noir in the bedroom. For a revamp (it was originally forest green), they spray-painted it in Sherwin Williams Tricorn Black.
A vignette on a dresser.
A bright bedroom with high/low finds.
The drum is Linaberry’s, a musician who plays under the name The Bones of J.R. Jones: “He actually took the whole thing apart and painted it white, and also painted the snake on there,” Przystup says.
Bedside, a vintage copper lamp.
At the foot of the bed, another peg rail holds a Redecker hand broom and dried tumbleweeds.
The mid-renovation check-in?