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You can buy a condo with sweeping panoramic views over the water in Battery Park for $22 million. A smaller space can run a whisker under $900,000.
There are those who like their dishes on open shelves. Others who do not. And even some who like it for a while, then think: Let’s get the dishes behind nice cabinet doors. Let’s put some of nature’s green in the kitchen and add a classy black marble backsplash. This is the point when the Paintworks team enters.
The heart of the home has always been the kitchen, much like the heart of New York City has been Central Park. Not always like the kitchen, but since the first section of the 843-acre park opened in 1858.
Old oak cabinets with outdated hardware in a kitchen with wood, louvered, bi-fold doors concealing the laundry space can drag down the most optimistic of homeowners after a while.
While Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia presents the largest living history museum portraying 18th century American life, the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn embraces everything of 21st century life for shopping, entertainment, dining and living in the Big Apple.
Leave it to the Romans, again, to invent something useful like cobblestone streets.
The kitchen really is the heart of the home, not only for food and beverages, but also for info exchange, notes, reminders, kid’s drawings and all kinds of communication.
If small spaces could talk, they might just ask for light and bright colors every time.
According to nextdoor.com: “Research shows that connecting with just six neighbors reduces loneliness and social anxiety.”
Updating a kitchen ranges from the price of a new car, albeit a small model, to simple dollar store décor items.