Counterop Catastrophe

The kitchen cabinet installation was pretty uneventful, outside of the workers showing up late both days and the company trying to charge us $200 more than the original quote. (Luckily, I saved the email with the original estimate.)
After finally getting our cabinets installed, the next step was the countertop. From the first day we visited [...]

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Delivery Day

We waited patiently for five weeks for our new kitchen cabinets to arrive. When the delivery day came, we were very excited. To recount the events of the day, I’m turning the keyboard over to my husband who was home to accept the delivery.

Thanks to my beloved wife for letting me handle this one.
I [...]

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Cooking Up A New Kitchen

The kitchen has been the most stressful and challenging part of making our new co-op apartment a home. When we purchased the apartment, the kitchen looked like this:

Not the worse looking kitchen on the block, but the stove didn’t work, there weren’t enough cabinets (those that were there had a grimy film on them) and [...]

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A Dash of Color

Once the plastering was finished, it was on to painting. After years of living in rental apartments with sterile white walls, we were determined to fill our surroundings with rich color. So what if the dark tones would make our rooms seem smaller? Better cozy and colorful than big and bland.

Again we were under a [...]

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The Long Haul

Our challenge with fixing the walls was compounded by the fact that we had to be out of our rental apartment by the end of August and the plaster work wouldn’t be finished until the second week of September. Fortunately, we had friends who were able to sublet their studio apartment in Manhattan to us [...]

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