When the boom started a few years ago, a nicely finished kitchen or a landscaped courtyard made a project stand out.
Throgs Neck........... $424,875 269 Graff Avenue, Bronx r 3 f 1 h 1 o 26 weeks 45-year-old 2-story brick town house; renovated eat-in kitchen, finished basement w/summer kitchen, h/w floors, driveway, 18-by-100-ft.
Flushing.............. $850,000 140-22 33rd Avenue, Queens r 4 f 2 h 0 o 8 weeks 79-year-old colonial; vinyl siding, dining room, eat-in kitchen, finished basement, 2nd kitchen, h/w floors, 30-by-100-ft.
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.
Last year, she moved from Mill Valley, Calif., to Brooklyn Heights, and she has nearly finished a kitchen renovation in her brownstone parlor floor apartment there.
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.
Heller's advice: "Once dinner is finished, the kitchen should be closed.
Once you have finished a kitchen roll, one of the long tissues, grab the grey tube that is inside it for your rainshaker.
