Thomas Baker, This Old House Building Technology Editor
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Tom lives by the seashore with his wife, two daughters and a Cocker Spaniel in
a Dutch Colonial soon to be 90 years old. His quest to restore this dwelling to
pristine perfection has given him rewarding opportunities to practice
carpentry, painting, framing, tiling, plastering, and siding, to be exposed to
toxic quantities of lead dust, asbestos particles, and paint fumes, and to take
many trips to the Home Depot.
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Alexandra Bandon, This Old House Multimedia Editor
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Alex lives in a rented one-bedroom garden apartment in New York’s historic
Greenwich Village, though she dreams of someday fixing up a whole house on one
of the Village’s beautiful tree-lined streets. In the meantime, she practices
her building skills by spending her own money and time to renovate her
rental—making her every landlord’s dream tenant—and by participating in the
occasional Habitat for Humanity blitz build.
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Kelly Beamon, This Old House Senior Editor
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This Old House magazine senior editor Kelly Beamon's passion for historic
homes and design was sparked at a young age while browsing tag sales, flea
markets and antique shops, and nurtured in her previous editing jobs for
design magazines. She has amassed a knowledge of American furniture styles
while growing her own collection of late-19th century and post-war modern
furniture for 12 years. That nerd knowledge gets channeled into a TOH column on
period furnishings and various house features.
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Jennifer Brite, This Old House Associate Online Editor
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Jennifer grew up in Indiana in an 1860's farmhouse built by her great-great
grandfather, who unfortunately was a better farmer than home builder. After
living with uneven floors and drafty rooms, she knows first hand the value
of proper home repair and construction. She now lives in Rego Park, Queens,
and has written about home design for Architecture, Architect, Architectural
Lighting, Kitchen and Bath Business, and Luxury SpaFinder.
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Meghan Dockendorf, This Old House Assistant Editor
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Meghan joined the TOH ranks in June 2008. Her writing and editing background
runs the gamut from Hollywood scripts, fashion, to West Coast architecture and
interiors. Though her Manhattan apartment is dressed with contemporary
furnishings, Meghan appreciates smart design of all styles and eras. The
self-proclaimed furniture and home accessory shopaholic, brings her passion for
scouting high-style items at affordable prices, space saving solutions, and
creative transformations to TOH's By Design and product related columns, and
Hardware Aisle blog.
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Amy R. Hughes, This Old House Features Editor
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Amy, who writes the magazine's Salvage column and this blog's Creative Recycler posts, is always pleading with her husband, Jon, for help bringing junk (what
he calls it) found on the street into their apartment in the Washington Heights
section of New York City. “We already have a sink,” Jon will say. “True, but
someday we’ll need another,” she will reply. Often, unable to pick up too-heavy
items, and Jon refusing to budge, Amy will leave it behind. She hopes that will
change. Amy’s been lifting weights.
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Jefferson Kolle, Contributor
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Through a process of elimination, Jefferson Kolle is trying to figure out what
he wants to be when he grows up. At different times in his life he has worked
as a pearl diver, an oil-field rough neck, a bailbondsman, a carpenter and
contractor, a university instructor, an editor, and a writer. He is quite
certain that he loves being a husband and friend to his wife, Jennifer, and a
father to his four amazing children, Tyler, Annie, Sam, and Mae. He writes from
a dark basement office in his 1924 house in Bethel, CT.
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Keith Pandolfi, This Old House Associate Editor
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Keith Pandolfi has written about green building and historic preservation for This Old House since 2005. But his appreciation for old houses began in a turn-of-the century double shotgun-style house in New Orleans, where he lived for five years while covering architecture and historic preservation for a local business weekly. His current residence is a garden apartment in an 1880s brownstone located in a Brooklyn, NY, landmarked district.
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Mark Powers, This Old House Senior Technical Editor
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Mark was raised by serial renovators and grew up in eight different houses
before he reached high school. He followed in his parents’ footsteps, but has
only subjected his 5-year-old daughter, Sophia, to a couple of moves so far. He
now lives with his wife and two children in a Brooklyn 4-story brownstone that
he purchased and shares with his brother's family. He's guestimating 25 years
of DIY renovations before the next move.
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Natalie Rodriguez, This Old House Assistant Editor
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Natalie Rodriguez, who began her career with TOH as an intern in 2005, is a born-and-bred apartment dweller whose knowledge of home repair has grown beyond tracking down the super (a skill in itself) to include architectural history and renovation techniques. But having grown up in a pre-war building, she has a deep appreciation of historic structures and the details that make home special-such as art tile or exterior shutters-which she covers in the magazine's Luxuries column.
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Nathaniel Garber Schoen, Contributor
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Opened in 1884, Garber Hardware has served Greenwich Village, in New York City,
for almost a century and a quarter. And throughout its history, the same family
has run the business. Nathaniel Garber Schoen is the great great grandson of
the store's founder, so you can say he bleeds nuts and bolts. He grew up
working alongside his family, so he's a font of knowledge who fields questions
from tool-challenged New Yorkers on a daily basis and somehow manages to keep
his sense of humor.
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Deborah Snoonian, This Old House Senior Editor
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Deborah Snoonian joined TOH in 2007 to oversee the magazine’s “Around the
House” department. She and her husband recently bought their first apartment in
Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, so she’s constantly on the lookout for
home products and DIY projects that will help make the space their own. Next on
her list: building an island to create more storage for their open-plan kitchen
and living room.
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Jennifer Stimpson, This Old House Editorial Assistant
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Long before making the leap from the Midwest to the East Coast, Jennifer
Stimpson spent her childhood weekends working alongside her sister and parents
on their home-based jobsites. Her love of carpentry and tools has been passed
down from a long line of Michigan craftsmen—one of her grandfathers was a
finishing carpenter, another a master plumber—and landed her TOH’s Step-by-Step
column where she carefully guides homeowners through their own weekend
projects.
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Tabitha Sukhai, This Old House Online Editorial Assistant
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Having dual residences—one of which is a 100-year-old, 6-family rental
property in Brooklyn—makes for a tight budget and lots of DIY. It wasn’t
until the family joined in purchasing a 1960s split-level Upstate NY
property that Tabitha got to know her inner gardener. Most of each home’s
improvements are family efforts, with how-to information garnered from books
and the Web. Tabitha covers yard & garden for the site, and wacky DIY, As
Seen on TV home products, books & software, and yard & garden for The
Hardware Aisle. She also serves as Board Manager for the TOH online
community.
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Joseph Truini, Contributor
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Joe Truini is a home-improvement writer living in rural Litchfield County,
Connecticut. He has written articles for a number of national publications,
including This Old House, Fine Homebuilding, Popular Mechanics, Outdoor Life,
and Country Living. His worked has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, Newsday and Hartford Courant newspapers.
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Sal Vaglica, This Old House Editorial Assistant
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After growing up in a family of contractors and masons, then working as a hardwood flooring contractor, Sal Vaglica says joining TOH in 2006 felt like coming home. He's constantly mining knowledgeable sources for insight he can use on his own 1950s split-level house, where he has ample opportunity to test tools or products and let readers know what is new, and-most importantly-what works.
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Linda Gallant, This Old House Assistant to the Editor
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Linda grew up on the Jersey Shore watching her dad build and restore homes along the coast. She remembers paging through his sacred collection of TOH back issues (kept on the only sawdust-free shelf in his workshop), which instilled a deep appreciation for home design and craftsmanship at an early age. Linda started working as the Assistant to the Editor at This Old House in 2007 and now lives in historic Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where she spends lots of time gratefully strolling past some of the finest examples of brownstone architecture anywhere. She hopes to live in one someday, but realizes that’s a long shot (even in this market).
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Deborah Baldwin, This Old House Articles Editor
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Deborah Baldwin and her husband, Irwin, have been renovating ever since they were newlyweds and wondered out loud what would happen if they demolished a wall in their first apartment. (A bigger kitchen and many months of work, as it turned out.) They went on to renovate a 1920s row house in Washington and, after a five-year interlude in Paris, now live in Manhattan, where they wrestle with their 80-year-old co-op apartment using tips Debby gleans at work. After two years as a contributor to This Old House magazine, Debby joined the staff full time as Articles Editor in August, 2009.
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