Meet Mallory Fletchall, the woman behind Reserve Home, a home decor and lifestyle blog. She spends her days sharing snaps of her home on her social channels, styling product shoots for brands, and of course, playing with her two cats, Michael, and Kiki.
When Mallory saw the listing for this dreamy Brooklyn duplex within a historic brownstone, she couldn’t resist. Featuring the original tin ceiling, original window trim, slate fireplaces, and restored hardwood floors – it was a space that typically wouldn’t last long in the New York market. So, she asked herself, "what is the catch?" “The kitchen was upstairs, very narrow, and hardly functioning. The range and refrigerator were broken in one way or another, there wasn’t a cabinet or any kind of enclosed storage to be found, and it was FILTHY. Grease and grime covering every inch, filthy,” said Mallory. The landlord agreed to changes being made in the kitchen, and fast forward to moving day, Mallory was standing in an empty kitchen that had been gutted with only a sink and broken refrigerator left behind.