Editor’s note: Welcome to the 17th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Plaster lasted a century. We traded it for something that dents in a decade.

Today, evidence of Poree’s ongoing elaborate work can be found in the center of his shop, where one table displays a 12-foot-wide design for an intricate wreath of Louisiana vegetables and crops that ...

Sometimes, on a nice afternoon, Jeff Poree drives by the Peristyle in City Park, where he and his workers spent three months in 2012, resurfacing every bit of the century-old ceiling and ionic columns ...