Archive of posts tagged Kitchen

The Kitchen – Finishing What I Started

We have been in our new place for a month now and we are still very much in the process of setting up everything. The living room, after much debate (and thanks for all your votes!) is painted a solid gray BUT will have molding added in the next few weeks. I’ll be sure to [...]



After picking up the pieces (literally), I have a new beginning. The kitchen catastrophe follow-up!

By now, you probably have heard about the heart-wrenching incident that took place in my kitchen late last week. A wall-mounted shelf broke and I lost all but three of my plates in the crash. True to my word, I spent the weekend fixing up the kitchen and thanks to IKEA, I was able to [...]



Is my kitchen catastrophe a blessing in disguise?

Last night something crazy happened. I had just finished washing all of my dishes (including some new ones I just bought last week) and about 5 minutes after putting them away the shelf they sit on collapsed! I’ve been keeping my plates on a wall mounted shelf and it totally went kaput. Bottom line, it [...]



Pegboard: From Julia Child’s kitchen to yours…and beyond!

“It did my heart good to see rows of . . . copper pots at the ready. I could hardly wait to get behind the stove.” – Julia Child, My Life In France Recently, I was over at my friends Matt and Shana’s apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and I found myself admiring this inexpensive storage [...]