Tag Archives: kitchen

Hamptons Reno: Beach Kitchen#2

Posted on November 11, 2014 by cara

DEMOLITION has begun — and it ended, four hours later — at my East Hampton beach house, above. That’s how long it took to disappear two closets and a storage area in a corner of what’s eventually to become a ‘winter … Continue reading →

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The Insider: Kitchen Extension in Brooklyn Heights

Posted on December 28, 2011 by cara

MY COLUMN TODAY on Brownstoner.com is all about a new two-story extension on the back of a c.1820 Dutch Revival row house in Brooklyn Heights. Robinson + Grisaru Architecture, a local husband-and-wife team, conceived the design using a steel window … Continue reading →

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The Insider: Shipshape Kitchen in Brooklyn Heights

Posted on November 17, 2011 by cara

THE LATEST IN MY WEEKLY INTERIORS SERIES for Brownstoner.com is this warmly appealing, functional kitchen by North Fork, L.I.-based designer Kate Altman. Not long ago, it was an “impossibly bad” ’70s galley kitchen. Now it has floor-to-ceiling storage and two … Continue reading →

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Max and Lexy’s Kitchen

Posted on September 12, 2011 by cara

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT to report down in Philadelphia: my son Max and his girlfriend Alexis, who bought an 1870s house in Fishtown in June of last year, now have a beautiful, functioning kitchen. They’ve been working on it all spring and … Continue reading →

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Before & After: Prospect Lefferts Kitchen

Posted on February 4, 2011 by cara

JANE ROSENBAUM, a Boerum Hill-based interior designer, sent me these before-and-after shots of a kitchen she masterminded in a Prospect Lefferts Gardens limestone. She described the ‘before,’ below, as “icky ’70s.” I couldn’t have put it better myself. The ‘after’ … Continue reading →

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