As seen in the previous post, nearly all of the kitchen stuff is located along one wall, making the room sort of anchorless and not very user-friendly. I was won over by the STENSTORP island at IKEA: huge real wood top, stainless steel shelves, space for bar stools. I thought it would be awesome in our [...]
Our new kitchen is large and, let's face it, pretty ugly. Or maybe not ugly, but definitely not my style. Oak kitchen cabinets with scalloped fronts and faux-wood-panelling wainscoting. There's nothing I could do about the former, so the latter had to go. Before: original off-white walls, original wainscoting: In progress: original walls, white primer [...]
One of the most frustrating things about moving into a new apartment is the time it takes to fix all of the mistakes made by all of the fools who came before you. “Mistakes” probably isn’t the right word because it isn’t deliberate enough: these fools chose to paint over the outlets and wall plates [...]
(Whoa, I remembered this being a Madonna song. That's not right at all.) Just so you know, I'm not the only one hard at work in Maplewood 2. The way I see it: I do the projects; Jarrod does the necessary. He moves the dishes from one side of the sink to the other and, [...]
Fixing up the bathroom was at the top of my to-do list when we moved in. It’s small and, as I mentioned previously, it’s made even more cramped by the crazy angle of the door. Here's what it looked like with the previous tenants' stuff. There was a medicine cabinet above the sink, which I [...]
Project Palermo 