The Fruits of Our Labor

After nearly a year of renovation work, our apartment finally looks like a home. We completed everything we wanted to complete as “Phase One” of our renovations. An additional project of getting storage units installed in the basement of our building allowed us to have a place to store the work materials we wanted to [...]

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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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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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Our New Home

It’s been nearly four months since my husband and I have had a home-cooked meal. It all started when we decided the purchase a co-op apartment on Brooklyn’s beautiful Eastern Parkway. It’s a great pre-war apartment with a lot of character. It’s also an apartment in need of a lot of TLC–more than we ever [...]

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