It's been almost a decade since we moved into our mid-century home in a historic neighborhood of New York City. Before we moved in, I had the floors refinished, walls skim-coated and painted, light fixtures updated, and the bathroom gut-renovated. But I didn't renovate the kitchen. I was grappling with a decision whether to leave the galley-kitchen footprint intact or to bring down some of the walls for an open concept kitchen and I wanted to live with it for a while.
