There are drawings, and there are DRAWINGS....
It seems that putting pencil to paper (with extensive use of rulers, tape measures, protractors , and other tools) doesn't result in a drawing usable for little things like getting a renovation underway. You can't submit detailed sketches of what the space will look like. You have to submit (to whom? who knows?) fully annotated, detailed, official looking drawings done by a draftsperson and signed off by a licensed architect.
Jay was working diligently in the 18 seconds a day he has between being too tired to keep working at his job and falling into bed. He came up with gorgeous ideas about a kitchen that two people can stand in simultaneously and even pass each other (wow!), ways to configure the open space so there's a little room for both of us to use our computers, shelving that doesn't narrow the space but still gives us places for books/objects/stuff, and take our tiny bathrooms and turn them into tiny works of art.
All of this conceptual work doesn't a started renovation make, however, as we still need to hire an architect who has the time (the only thing Jay doesn't have) to turn these sketches into finished drawings suitable for the co-op board and architect, and the Building Department in NYC, and the contractor-to-be-named-later who will have to do the work using these drawings. And do it perfectly, I might add.
We're now in a big rush to get The Renovation underway, because the apartment won't be liveable during the construction - which will take about six months - and we want this whole thing completed before I sell my house and need the apartment to live in.
The hunt for an architect got a bit more interesting than we'd hoped....
Jay was working diligently in the 18 seconds a day he has between being too tired to keep working at his job and falling into bed. He came up with gorgeous ideas about a kitchen that two people can stand in simultaneously and even pass each other (wow!), ways to configure the open space so there's a little room for both of us to use our computers, shelving that doesn't narrow the space but still gives us places for books/objects/stuff, and take our tiny bathrooms and turn them into tiny works of art.
All of this conceptual work doesn't a started renovation make, however, as we still need to hire an architect who has the time (the only thing Jay doesn't have) to turn these sketches into finished drawings suitable for the co-op board and architect, and the Building Department in NYC, and the contractor-to-be-named-later who will have to do the work using these drawings. And do it perfectly, I might add.
We're now in a big rush to get The Renovation underway, because the apartment won't be liveable during the construction - which will take about six months - and we want this whole thing completed before I sell my house and need the apartment to live in.
The hunt for an architect got a bit more interesting than we'd hoped....
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