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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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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