Author: Tongue and Groove Properties, LLC

Tongue and Groove Properties, LLC is owned by Bennie Flores Ansell, an artist & Art Professor at The Houston Community College Central Campus and David Ansell, a Psychiatrist who enjoys renovating old buildings. 2020 Hardy is not their first renovation. In 2011, The Ansells received a Houston Preservation Good Brick Award for renovation and additional work on their 1880's home in The Old Sixth Ward. The architects for their home project are Marisa Janusz and Joe Meppelink of Janusz Design. Gary Inman of Mainland Construction was their contractor. Their home was on the Rice Design Alliance Home Tour "Additionally" in the spring of 2014.

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020

Second Coat of Polyurethane …

First Coat of Polyurethane on Hardwood Floors…

March 14, 2020March 14, 2020

Upstairs Wood Floors in Progress

Before and After!

February 29, 2020

Tile in Upstairs Bathroom

November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

Studio A – Available

Studio A, approximately 20′ x 46′, on the north side of the building, two entrances, one off of Hardy and one to the back of the building.

Studio A Studio A.1

July 2019 Downstairs Studios – Brick Reveal as Plaster Comes Down

The plaster removal also revealed that that there were 2 more sets of double doors than we originally thought.

July 2019 Upstairs Studios- Sheetrock and Filled in Wood Walls

June 2019 -Tape and Float

May 2019- Upstairs Studio Doors and Bathroom

The Downstairs Studios get Doors April 2019