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Cheap & Green Kitchen Renovation
The New York Times 4.10.08

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No stranger to extravagant taste, The New York Times helps keep it real this week with a story on the low-budget kitchen renovation of Brooklyn Heights resident Katherine Belsey Davis. Spending just over $10,000 on the new kitchen, Davis shares some of her sources for appliances, cabinets, countertops and floor...

In addition to Craigslist savvy, Davis bought some items new from Build It Green and Home Depot. Read all about it: Leftovers, Yes, but Perfectly Crisp.

Comments (4)

Those cabinets...not good.

posted by trygve on 2008-04-10 12:23:19
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There's nothing good happening here.

posted by petro on 2008-04-10 23:46:40
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I actually really like the vintage cabinets. With the metal cabinets and red linoleum, she was clearly going for a retro look.

posted by Joy R. on 2008-04-11 08:30:19
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we just ripped those cabinets out of our 55-year old home and relegated them to the basement. *shudder*

posted by erin patton on 2008-04-11 19:43:41
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