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Home & Garden > Apartment Renovations
 

Apartment Renovations



(New blinds and hurricane windows)

There have been a lot of changes to the Gateway Terrace apartments, where I live, since Hurricane Irma hit and since a new company bought the property.

On the negative side is that fact that hundreds of trees, flowering bushes and fruit trees are gone along with many gardens that residents grew using their own money, spending a lot of time, energy and enjoyable hours maintaining them.

On the positive we finally got a new roof on our building—the only one blown off—after 10 months.

In the apartments we have gotten new cabinets in the kitchen, bathroom along with new hardware, water saving toilets, a ceiling fan, a new air conditioner that doesn’t seem to be working (at least in my apartment!), new hurricane windows, new blinds and, soon, new entrance/exit apartment doors.

The last thing that is supposed to be done are all the outside of the buildings to be repainted in new colors.

Before—I thought I had a video of the whole apartment but this is just the living/dining room area!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6oNx3LN6o



After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqlFcJfKZE&feature=youtu.be

posted on Oct 15, 2018 8:52 PM ()

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My in-laws live in a town home community in Denver and the HOA told them they had to take out their flowerbeds and little custom touches. But I see most of it is still there, so there must be a moratorium on the enforcement.
comment by traveltales on Oct 16, 2018 8:16 PM ()
I guess people don't like beauty!!! ARGH!
reply by greatmartin on Oct 16, 2018 9:10 PM ()
The new things sound good, except for the loss of trees and gardens. Maybe Florida needs a moat dug around it for protection. Or a series of sea walls, like the Netherlands.
comment by drmaus on Oct 16, 2018 10:28 AM ()
But....but.....but.....there isn't any global warming or weather change so why should anyone do anything?
reply by greatmartin on Oct 16, 2018 3:08 PM ()

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