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Sunday, March 08, 2009

Nothing but the kitchen sink

Posted by Jenny

This sink has been sitting under all of the dirt and demolition for 10 months, progressively looking worse and worse.

It was finally time to hook up the plumbing fixtures, so I spent a day cleaning, scrubbing off rust, and re-enameling it. The new faucet helps too ...

Before:
kitchen sink before

During:
painting the sink

painting the sink

After:
kitchen

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Braddock, PA

Braddock is an urban 'burb of Pittsburgh that has been drawing in DIY types willing to put their time and energy into making this a better place for everyone here. We heard about it in January 2008 from a friend of a friend whose brother had moved to Braddock in December. We made it here for a visit in February and were back for good in March. It's an almost empty town somehow full of energy.

This site is a story of our journey to and within Braddock ... "what follows is a story; one version only of the many possible narratives that could be told of these events." (Kolko & Reid, 1998)