A Terrible Tile Tale with a Happy Ending

If you’ve been a regular reader of The Eastern Parkway Project, you know that we had a terrible time getting the countertop and tile floor and backsplash installed in our kitchen. We hired Lifestyle Marble and Granite to handle all three tasks. However, after botching the countertop fabrication, Dave, the owner, decided to give us [...]

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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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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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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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If These Walls Could Talk

So you may be wondering what our “new” apartment looks like. If I showed you pictures of what the place looked like when we bought it, you might question our judgement. The apartment had not been updated in decades and had been empty for several months. These photos will make great befores for “Before and [...]

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