I’m a 5’1” petite girl and we did bungee cords yesterday with bent knees and my foot still touched this column… I think this is unacceptable placement of the reformer…?
They countertop sits flush in against the wall in this peninsula but up against the fridge panel the angle is off so doesn’t sit flush. Is this bad or something I should just let slide? They’re saying that I just need to caulk it.
Just got this email… So is the take home message that the cancellation policy is becoming even more strict?
They said the 54” bottom section fits 3-4 shelves and the 34” top section fits 2 shelves. We wanted at least 1 pull out at the bottom. How many should we do?
Just closed on this apt and demo started but still in the process of buying materials. How’s this idea? Any suggestions?
Gut renovating this place and it seems like we need to reduce the depth of the closet and width of the closet door to fit molding. Just want advice on how to go about choosing trims and doors for such a tight space.
Left is the master bedroom door, straight on is bathroom, and right is linen closet.
As you can see we’re demoing the wall to open up the kitchen. We’re trying to move the fridge location to the empty wall perpendicular to the current location to fit a bigger fridge and add a peninsula where the demoed wall was. In the old fridge space we’ll put a landing space or a pantry. However it’s impossible to color match the original cabinets so we’ll just get a whole different color flat panel for the new cabinets.
While we’re talking about this, the kitchen cabinet guy said we can do the whole entire kitchen in white shaker cabinets for the same price or cheaper as just doing the additional new flat panel pieces. I like the thought of doing all white cohesive cabinets and the ability to change out the kitchen floors to a brighter color but now that I know the flat panels are more expensive than shakers, is it stupid to toss away perfectly good cabinets? Should we just add the different color flat panels at the same price of doing the whole kitchen in white shakers?
EDIT: AI rendering in the comments for reference
The shaker door style in white is the most affordable model at the store I went to and the style of the grey one behind that is 5% more expensive. We’ll be doing all white probably. Small U shaped NYC apartment kitchen. Is it worth the additional 5% in price to do the style that’s in gray or is the style that’s in white one fine?
EDIT: I mean the style of the doors. I’ll be getting them in white either way!
First time homeowner in a coop apt and my first time renovating the kitchen. Major things we want to change:
- There’s no window or AC in the kitchen so we’re breaking down the wall and putting a peninsula in its place
- the fridge is too small so we want to move it to the empty wall perpendicular to the current location (drawn out in the mockup)
- we want to keep the original kitchen as much as possible to save on costs as they cabinets look almost new
- we’re considering changing the countertop depending on how costly it is to find a matching one as I feel a white quartz would be better than this dark gray one.
- replace the backsplash with light colored tiles
- replace the ceiling light
Now here’s the problems:
- The previous owner passed and their next of kin sold the place so they weren’t sure who did the kitchen renovation. There aren’t any labels in the cabinets so we can’t tell the manufacturer. This is making it very difficult for us to match the color of the new cabinets with the old.
- we’re leaning towards doing a different color for the new cabinets. However if we renovate as it was suggested to us, then the new cabinets next to the stove where the fridge was will be in the new cabinet color and I think it’ll look weird.
- so another idea we have is to keep the cabinetry that surrounds the old fridge and turn it into a pantry/coffee nook/appliance storage. But it’ll have to just be shelves built in bc again it’ll be difficult to match the colors with the original cabinets.
Could you share some ideas of what you’d do in this situation?
Hello! My bridal shop is charging $850 for alterations and the seamstress is quoting me $150 on top of that to make off the shoulder straps with material from the hem of my dress. Is this a fair price?
My fiancé and I are getting married this July and we’re having a 150 people wedding that we’re paying for 100%. Our parents have helped with a down payment to a co-op apartment that we still have a mortgage for and need to renovate significantly. We’re grateful to have closed on the apt recently and so we celebrated by buying our parents dinner at a nice restaurant on 2 separate occasions bc they have beef with each other (but that’s a whole other story).
We have 4 bridesmaids and 4 groomsmen. They haven’t contributed anything to the wedding planning for the past 8 months of planning bc we have wedding planners and we’re not big party people and we’re very busy with work and house stuff so we won’t be having any bachelor/bachelorette parties. I’m the first child to get married in an immigrant family so bc my family isn’t familiar with bridal showers, I won’t be having one either. We’re paying for the bridesmaids’ dresses and we’re asking groomsmen to wear their own suits and we’re gifting them a dress shirt and a bow tie to wear at the wedding.
Now here comes the question. We’re having a rehearsal dinner with our parents and the bridal party (and their spouses). As I was looking up what we need to plan for the rehearsal dinner, I came across how the couple gives gifts to the parents and bridal party during the rehearsal dinner. While I’m grateful to have them with us at our wedding, it’s a bit burdening to yet again spend money on gifts for a total of 12 people. Should we still be getting them gifts?