The first time I climbed the stairs in a house I rented in North Little Rock and walked straight into a wall of heat while the kitchen below me was genuinely cold, I blamed the thermostat. It was not the thermostat. I moved that dial up and down for a week like an idiot, and the second floor stayed stubborn all summer, because a warm upstairs is almost never a thermostat problem.
Heat rising is only half the story, and honestly it is the smaller half. The bigger culprits are how your house moves air, where your ducts run, and how much sun your roof takes between noon and five. Rooms upstairs also sit farther from the blower, which means they get whatever cooling is left over after the first floor takes its share. Once I understood that, the upstairs finally started acting like a bedroom instead of a sauna. Getting a technician to look at it during a heat wave and scheduling proper air conditioning repair little rock ar turned the whole thing around faster than any DIY fix I tried. Continue reading Why Your Home Feels Warmer Upstairs Than Downstairs→
Ah, weekend Brunch in NYC. It’s a continuously evolving hot topic that keeps all of the Yelp reviewers on their toes! We love the funky East Village brunch scene, but sometimes we like to put on our fancy shoes and check out what’s going on a little further uptown. This past summer, we enjoyed a magical rooftop evening of unique and hearty appetizers, tall cool cocktails and stunning city views at the Penthouse level restaurant, Upstairs at the top of the Kimberly Hotel. As luck would have it, we heard that they also host a killer Brunch. Continue reading Brunch Hot Spot: Upstairs at the Kimberly!→
When you get right down to it, there are woefully too few days in a New York City summer where the planets align to create weather that’s both seductively warm and miraculously free from precipitation, making for the perfect scenario for a rooftop dining experience. We enjoyed just such a cosmic occurrence one evening last week, when we were fortunate enough to snag a prime table at Upstairs, the luxurious rooftop restaurant and bar located on the Penthouse level of the Kimberly Suites Hotel.
Unlike similar venues that may flaunt coveted Rooftop views of our fair Metropolis while phoning it in when it comes to service and consumables, Upstairs backs up its bragging rights with an impressive menu of gourmet eats and signature summer cocktails that will add significant value to your evening of memorable views. Continue reading Upstairs at the Kimberly Hotel: Much More than Just Rooftop Cocktails→
