click on images for larger view My kitchen makeover was completed just about a year ago and I’ve been loving it ever since. It is my favorite room in my house. I’ve been very lucky that it also appealed to several media outlets including The Boston Globe, Shelterpop, Apartment Therapy and now Country Woman magazine. … Read more
The Boston Globe featured my kitchen renovation in today’s issue! You can click on the image above to read it as it appears in the paper, or easier yet, click here for the online version. Thanks to Jaci Conry for writing such an excellent account of the project! I’ve probably bored all my regular readers … Read more
I lived with this kitchen for nine years. I look back and wonder what I was thinking. Really, I wasn’t. I was switching careers, building a business, dealing with aging parents, and basically trying to have a life. So, my kitchen kind of languished. And I was embarrassed about it. Decorator’s are expected to live … Read more
Yesterday was an exciting day here in my kitchen in that I did the final photo shoot with Michael J Lee. It’s going to take a few days before I get all the final photos back, but wanted to share a sneak peak of the photo shoot, a little of the set up and one … Read more
For my fourth birthday, my best friend and next door neighbor Patty Zimmerman (who was three) gave me this very cute Humpty Dumpty cookie jar. This became our family cookie jar, gracing our kitchen through many moves and houses. Although it was technically mine, I didn’t have free reign of the cookies inside, sadly. However, … Read more
Well, I did have a crazy notion of getting the whole kitchen finished over the holidays. Didn’t happen, but I’m close. My dear friend Rob spent New Year’s eve and New Year’s Day working with me to get the final big projects finished and we did just that, I’m very happy to report. Here’s a … Read more
Once upon a time, my kitchen was a dated, tiny space with nasty knotty pine cabinets and twenty-five year old appliances. As a featured piece of my blogging relationship with New England Home magazine, my planned kitchen facelift took on a larger scale. Instead of just painting the cabinets and walls, the popcorn ceiling was … Read more
And so, the kitchen makeover is slowly heading towards the final stages. The big work this weekend was to put up the bead board backsplash and on the soffit above the cabinets. The nasty part of the job was that we pulled out the 25 year old exhaust hood over the stove and pulled out … Read more
And so, my kitchen cabinets are finally painted (woot!) and I’m no longer picking through grocery bags for food and measuring cups. The joys of clean, organized and freshly painted kitchen cabinets cannot be overstated, let me tell you! A little recap. My kitchen makeover has been basically a Sunday afternoon project. So, I’ve we’ve … Read more
I had a great meeting with the nice folks at Ferguson’s on Friday. I’ve never shopped for kitchen appliances for myself before and it’s fun! Paul Gillis was my sales guy and we spent quite a while looking at various products and their features. My kitchen is tiny, so my appliances also need to be … Read more
One of the benefits of a kitchen makeover (aside from how it will look when it’s all finished!) is that it forces you to totally clean out the cabinets. I actually found a can of refried beans that had a sell-by date of 1999. Gross, I know. The really weird thing is that I moved … Read more
Another Sunday and some more progress on my kitchen makeover! My volunteer staff (a.k.a. close pal Rob) was all rested from his weekend away in NYC last weekend where he took in The Marriage of Figaro at the Met and Jude Law in Hamlet. He said Figaro was excellent and Jude Law was amazing as … Read more
I gave my volunteer staff the weekend off so there was not a huge amount of work accomplished on the kitchen makeover. I did install all the bead board where I could (still need to do behind appliances and am going to be installing as back splash). You can click here to view the updated … Read more
Okay, so the big kitchen remodel (and by big, I mean, lots of work, very DIY weekend warrior) began in earnest this weekend with the removal of the dreaded popcorn ceiling. So, we started where we all must, with clearing out the kitchen. As you can see, small, oddly shaped and not gorgeous. Here is … Read more
I’ve been dying to share this news for some while and the time is now! I have forged a new relationship with the fabulous New England shelter magazine New England Home. NEH was founded only a few short years ago by Dan Kaplan, who has since moved on. But his indelible stamp of quality, elegance … Read more
Linda’s nasty knotty kitchen As I’ve previously mentioned, I live in townhouse/condo here in Duxbury, MA. This is a town with precious few condos and I was lucky to get into one. My building was built in the 1980’s and I had to do a lot of work when I moved in bringing the place … Read more