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An hour before Simon & Alex’s house renovation was unveiled on last night’s new episode of The Real Housewives on New York, we stopped by their Cobble Hill house for a guided tour. The reality show couple livea in the lower duplex (plus renovated cellar) with their two kids and have two rentals upstairs. Enjoy the pics! Update: As a commenter points out, how funny was that to see Marty in the background of their housewarming party on the show last night!


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  1. So now that you have been living in your home for 6 months or so since the reno, what changes have you made? Is it still red on red on red? Is the deck complete? What’s going on with the blow up pool 🙂 Its almost summertime.

  2. So now that you have been living in your home for 6 months or so since the reno, what changes have you made? Is it still red on red on red? Is the deck complete? What’s going on with the blow up pool 🙂 Its almost summertime.

  3. @ Posted by: salvpar at May 4, 2009 3:32 PM

    what kind of contingency did you have? – None.

    However given a choice of having 2m+ people see your finished work versus having them see your house unfinished because deadlines were missed is a pretty powerful incentive.

    Our main contractor, The Pinnacle Group ( see http://bstoner.wpengine.com/forum/archives/2009/04/alex_and_simons.php ) worked wonders.

    The risk they took was that they had to rely on all my other contractors to do their work as well as delivery of everything I ordered; kitchen cabinets, appliances, steel doors & windows, furniture, light fittings etc etc.

    It truly was a team effort but having a drop dead date when TV cameras were involved made us all concentrate on that date. It was exhausting but we made it.

    Mind you I would rather have an exhausting 9 weeks than a drawn out nine months.

    Simon van Kempen

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