The New York Times has finally recognized our plight.
A surprising number of people shared similar tales of sitting down with an architect and planning a project over months, then finding out, once the drawings were done, that the bids were way out of whack with what they could afford.
Oh really? You think we’re part of […]
You might wonder, are we the kind of people who are impossible to deal with in restaurants or other retail situations. After all, we’ve fired two architects already and we haven’t even broke ground.
But we really aren’t. We’re nice people. Honestly.
Our first try at the architectural profession was Robb. We refer to him as Robubub. […]
From my days as a high school and college music geek / d-j / pack rat, I’ve managed to accumulate a few hundred (probably closer to thousand) record albums. Sue also came with her share of prime 80s new wave LPs and along the way we’ve some how managed to accumulate even more.
For the exact […]
We’ve been shopping… dragging the poor children from one appliance store to another… answering questions like “How to you prepare your food now?” (Open pit) and “Would you like to try out the cooktop?” (No, but can I test out the shower? Here, hold my pants.).
We kept hearing about induction cooktops. The kind that you […]
Part of the joy of renovating a kitchen is getting a free pass to spend tens of thousands of dollars on things your parents never imagined they needed.
Like a warming drawer.
Somehow we wall grew up fine, our parents were fine and our grandparents made it through the Depression without warming drawers. The pioneers made it […]
