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January 9, 2008
Help! Need Kitchen & Bath Designer NOW!
We're in the middle of a floor-through ground-floor brownstone apt renovation, with most of the walls down to the studs. We're using an architect for permits, etc., but were atempting the designing, purchasing, etc., ourselves. I'm ready to tear my hair out over the mistakes we've been making, trying to do things on the cheap. Can anyone recommend a bath designer-with experience in plumbing decisions, and brownstones, who is reasonable, and can work with what we have, i.e, some of the same cabs and appliances? Especially someone who is willing to work with Ikea cabs?
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You can go into Home Depot and speak with a bathroom/kitchen designer for free. They have a nice computer program you can work with, and it is not tied to the purchase of anything. If you go, I recommend doing it during a weekday, since the place is a madhouse on the weekends.
To whatever extent you can, I recommend slowing things down and thinking through them completely, hopefully with the help of a professional designer/architect. Since you already have an architect you are working with, would he/she be amenable to doing some extras for you for an additional fee? Believe me, its so worth it to pay now rather than fix a mistake later. I've been fixing mistakes (or oversights, or just plain bad luck) for 6 years now at my place - it ain't cheap. You're spending enough to do this in the first place: do it right.
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 1:23 PM
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Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 1:30 PM
Your architect can do it for you.
Just ask.
Try to negotiate an additional fee with him to complete the work.
Posted by: Ysabelle at January 9, 2008 2:39 PM
isn't that what your architect is for?
Posted by: guest at January 9, 2008 3:08 PM
Thank you everybody. You're all absolutely right, we can pay extra for some additional work, but the info I left out was that while this architect is great for helping us change the C of O, and building codes, her advice on interior design just . . . hasn't been working for us. We did have her over on a site visit for some design advice, and all that did was convince us that we needed ask other Brownstoners for help.
Posted by: pollywognyc at January 9, 2008 3:47 PM
Not to take away from Brownstoner, but have you visited ths.gardenweb.com/forums/bath
Lots of eager people willing to look at pics and offer some really great ideas.
Posted by: guest at January 10, 2008 10:49 PM
Try Caroline Beaupere. She is a young designer based in Brooklyn. She's our neighbor and has great taste and best of all, a lovely personality. A total pleasure, works well with people, which sounds like what you need with what you are saying about your architect. I've seen her work in her house and a few others and it's stunning.
www.carolinebeaupere.com
She was voted one of the top ten new interior designers by a major trade magazine recently.
Posted by: guest at January 11, 2008 11:41 AM
Maybe your architect was offended that you didn't want her design expertise in the first place and that you were cheap.
Posted by: guest at January 13, 2008 11:50 PM
About me:
We own a Brownstone with all the problems that come with it.
I am designing kitchens and baths.
a.m@verizon.net
Posted by: guest at January 15, 2008 10:36 PM
Go to cekint.com all contact info. is there
Call me or E-mail we can talk on what needs to be done. Soundns like you can use all the help you can get at this point. If I can't help I will try to get you some.
Posted by: cekint at January 19, 2008 5:14 PM
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