Recently, $25 diner stools from "The Knights of Prosperity," a short-lived ABC show, were for sale alongside $40 doors from "The Sopranos" and a set of cherry-finish kitchen cabinets removed from an Upper East Side apartment.
Why bother putting in finished kitchens and bathrooms when the buyers and their decorators were just going to tear them up anyway?
Manufactured houses have improved over the years and in some cases they even lose the look and feel of being a mobile home, offering spacious rooms, finished kitchens, and even outside decks.
If absinthe were a finish on kitchen and bath fixtures, it would be brushed nickel.
The rescue workers remarked later that there was not a single fraternity brother in sight, just the cleaners, who told the police what they knew, then went downstairs to finish the kitchen.
2230: Rumsfeld No. 4. Finish mopping kitchen, while reciting the Gettysburg Address -- Four square and seven beers ago... 2315: Retire after making sure Taser and night-vision goggles are in reach.
By the time I've finished the kitchen looks like an abattoir.
By the time the men came in at eight, Shelley and Pam had finished the kitchen and Shelley had just got going on the toilets.
In three months, between late September and Christmas, he built all the bookcases, the medicine cabinets, the mantle; installed the sidelights by the front door; hung drywall and finished the kitchen.
Then he split the house into three apartments, spending an additional $500,000 to $600,000 in finishing the kitchen with white-oak plank flooring, granite countertops and a six-burner Wolf Range stove and in installing new bathrooms.
"When they finished the kitchen and I started cooking they were like, 'No!' and I was like, 'That's why they're thick, because they're going to get worn down!' " Mr. Oliver lashed his arm through the air, catching a fly in his hand.
