Now We’re Cooking With Gas

If you’ve been following our blog you are well aware of the many problems we’ve encountered renovating our kitchen. First, the kitchen cabinet company shipped the wrong sink base cabinet, which delayed the installation of all our kitchen cabinets for three weeks (see Delivery Day). Then the company we hired to install our countertop and [...]

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Two Rooms Down…

After five months of working on our apartment, we’ve finished the main living areas–the living room and dining room. Actually the work in these rooms was completed a month or so ago. It’s taken me that long to find a new place to store the work tools and materials that had been housed in these [...]

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The Power Suit

Since we closed on our apartment on August 2007, we’ve had myriad problems with contractors—Bestwall Plastering’s shoddy plastering work (If These Walls Could Talk), Park Slope Kitchen Gallery’s cabinet order error (Delivery Day), a major mishap with the floor refinishing company (fodder for a future blog entry) and a failed kitchen countertop fabrication by Lifestyle [...]

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