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Greg Pendelton and Amanda Grace proudly show off their South End abode with their bichon-poodle mix, Casey.
Was it love at first sight when Channel 7’s Amanda Grace and her husband, Greg Pendleton, toured the 1,028-square-foot South End penthouse condo they now call home?
“No way,” Grace says, laughing.
The outdated space featured overgrown houseplants, peach tile in the bathroom, and windows held together with packing tape. But Pendleton had a vision. The newlyweds enlisted a contractor to take down the beams separating the kitchen and living room. They also requested that he erect two interior walls, creating a second bedroom and bathroom.
Grace and Pendleton joke that renovating the condo with limited funds was a test of their marriage, but one walk through their light-filled unit — which houses many of Grace’s rehabbed antiques and thrift-store finds — and it’s clear that both enjoy decorating on a dime. “It’s a way to spend time together — we find old, junky things and give them facelifts,” Pendleton says.
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CURIO CORNER
Horns from a shop in Birmingham, Alabama, share tablespace with small glass cloches that shelter shells and coral from Hawaii and British Columbia’s Savary Island (the latter is a special spot for the Vancouver natives).
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WOOD IS GOOD
Old parts from a machine shop form the base of this farm table, built by David Ellison of Pawtucket, Rhode Island’s Lorimer Workshop. Ellison also crafted the benches. “Too many chairs would have cluttered the space,” Grace says.
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STRIPPED DOWN
Pendleton used a belt sander to remove at least five layers of paint from this thrift-shop coffee table. Now it’s the resting place of a stone bust plucked from an antiques store in Provincetown.
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TASTEFUL TOUCHES
Forget cereal boxes and coffee—the cabinet above the kitchen sink instead holds a glass vessel filled with antique doorknobs and rocks. “Everything is within walking distance, so we don’t have to stock up on things, and we don’t need a big pantry,” Pendleton says.
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DRINK UP
A table extension, also built by Ellison, serves as the couple’s bar (note the funky cups, which are from a store in Columbia County, New York). “God forbid we ever have 12 people over,” Pendleton jokes.
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ALMOST ADLER
After buying these Chinese Chippendale chairs from a junk shop near Hudson, New York, Grace and Pendleton painted the frames turquoise and had them reupholstered. The brass whales displayed on the table were purchased on eBay.
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ANIMAL INSTINCT
While Grace loves antlers as décor, Pendleton isn’t so sure. “That one came with some of the deer still attached to it,” he says, referring to lingering fur on an animal skull in the bedroom. The loud chevron-print chair was an Etsy find.
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TRUE REFLECTIONS
This mirrored Horchow nightstand came with plastic pulls, but Grace switched them out to get the look she wanted: “We were on a tight budget, so I made it work.”
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BEYOND THE ABSTRACT
A bold painting by local artist Mary Hughes adds character to the master bedroom, while the nearby jewelry tree keeps Grace’s baubles organized.
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FEATHERED FIND
Shelves in the loft hold magazines, books, and oddities like this ball of peacock feathers, which Grace calls another “wackadoo Brimfield find.”