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The Bushwick house of Gian Carlo Feleppa, and his partner Jennifer “Frosty” Hoopes, is amazingly and wonderfully in the latter category: it’s a four-story brick mansion chockablock with mouldings, stained glass, and fantastic woodwork (and other people: the band Shellshag are roommates, and brother Tim Feleppa lives on the top floor. “He’s the bat in our belfry,” says Gian Carlo). But it hasn’t been renovated to within an inch of its life. Except for the addition of an amazing outdoor shower, it’s hardly been renovated at all.