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The Midtown East neighborhood in Manhattan is a bustling place with legendary skyscrapers, top drawer shopping on 5th Avenue, the United Nations headquarters and Grand Central Terminal. It’s trendy, lively, and hugs the East River on one side.
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.
Red Hook might be called Brooklyn’s hidden gem from the land side. But, from the East River, it’s right out there, not at all hidden and serviced by the New York Waterway ferries and New York City Ferry Service.
Our interior décor and surroundings can have a big impact on our mood, quality of life, productivity and happiness. For one client, sleeping by night and working by day in this Upper West Side multi-use bedroom space, meant restyling the walls in the sharpest of contrasts – black and white.
After painting the kitchen cabinets for one of our clients in Manhasset, they asked us to paint the natural wood bar-height chairs to match.
“Crimson and Clover” is an interesting song to get stuck in your head. The 1969 hit from Tommy James and the Shondells spent 16 weeks on the U.S. charts, hitting number one in February.
It’s time for action when the living room walls are cracking, paint is peeling and the aesthetics of the space is simply no longer bearable.
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.
It’s hard to imagine Long Island City’s humble beginnings as a Dutch farming settlement or even its next life as an industrial center.
On the ground level of a 3-story brick building in the Greenpoint neighborhood in Brooklyn, School of Thought offers incredibly thoughtful, handmade, every day clothing items.