Problem Solved: Sometimes what’s in fashion just doesn’t always work
The Color-Block Botch By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem The owner of this East Greenbush home hired the wrong interior designer who didn’t do work the owner liked. The failed attempt at color...
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Up & Down By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home PROBLEM This Tannersville house had been used as a summer retreat until Paula McCormick of PMI Interiors in Loudonville was hired to update its decor to suit...
View ArticleProblem Solved: How to redo a foyer without tearing it apart
Looking Up By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem A foyer’s ceiling tiles and the pink wallpaper in this 1920s Albany home were dingy and dated. Solved Mary Korzinski of Custom Design Associates in...
View ArticleThink replacing your kitchen cabinets is your only update solution? Think again.
Reface It By Lee Nelson/Life@Home It didn’t make sense for Donna and Richard Pavlovic to gut their entire kitchen and start investing big bucks to modernize it. “We are retired and live in a townhouse...
View ArticleProblem Solved: Making old chairs new
Piecing it Back Together By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem When Karyl-Lynn Desrosiers, owner of Playing on the Furniture in Troy, found these old chairs, they were “in multiple pieces,” she says....
View ArticleProblem Solved: A neat solution to a cluttered fridge
The Art of Displaying Art By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem This Saratoga kitchen was looking cluttered with the kids’ artwork and miscellaneous invitations and cards stuck to...
View ArticleProblem Solved: Modernizing a modest kitchen
Back Country By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem When Leanne Goldberg first moved into her house in Alpaus nine years ago, her kitchen had “white vinyl floors, which were all dirty, blue laminate...
View ArticleProblem Solved: Making a grownup room
Balancing Act By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem When you’re the parents of two young children, the house gets messy and cluttered with toys quickly. So these Saratoga homeowners and parents decided...
View ArticleProblem Solved: This kitchen gets new cabinets, quick and easy
Facelift By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem This home’s original cabinets were around 15 years old. “The cabinets were still mostly functional, maybe a loose handle, a couple hinges that didn’t work...
View ArticleProblem Solved: You don’t have to empty your wallet to semi-finish the basement
Pole Problems By Brianna Snyder/Life@Home Problem Those ugly support poles are usually just an unfortunate feature of an un- or semi-finished basement. But Denise Maurer, of Denise Maurer...
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