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Hiding the wires from a HDTV that is hanging above the fireplace can be a challenge. I think this is a good solution. We used wiremold painted the same color as the wall to hide the HDMI and power cables for the HDTV. So if you are looking for HDTV installers in Manhattan or Brooklyn, please consider HandymanEric.com

This is also an apartment where we painted the 2 bedroom coop, installed new lighting fixutures, and also hung the HDTV hiding the wires and most of the components in the cabinet to the side of the fireplace.

We are HDTV installers in Manhattan and Brookyn

If you are looking for a Brooklyn Ikea Kitchen Installer, here we are. Here we tore out the old metal cabinet and sink, installed a new set of cabinets and more. Opposite this cabinet is an Ikea Kitchen island with a butcher block top.

The new Ikea cabinet is installed, and we're ready for the sink

We also do the plumbing when doing an Ikea install

We cut the back of the cabinet to receive the plumbing lines

Here is the Ikea cabinet and sink installation with butcher block top

Let's Eat!

I get this call a lot.

Here’s a kitchen cabinet repair we did in Cobble Hill. You can see here in the close up, that the side of this cabinet is torn off from the back wall of the kitchen cabinet.

This cabinet was leaning out about an inch, and making the homeowners nervous. Not an unusual feeling when your kitchen cabinets need repair.

Here is the damage

When removing the broken kitchen cabinet, I discovered that when the cabinet was installed, the screws holding up the cabinet did not screw into the wall studs. So this cabinet was supported by the adjoining cabinet. It eventually tore away from the back wall because of the weight of the items in the cabinet.

The support screws had missed the wall studs, so nothing was really holding this cabinet up

I took the kitchen cabinet back to the shop to repair it.

Small blocks were screwed and glued into several discreet places and the cabinet squared back up again.

Small blocks of wood to strengthen the cabinet

Here I am with the kitchen cabinet repair back in place

Here’s an apartment in a coop we painted. The kid’s room was painted really bright deep colors - kid colors - and whenever we paint a room like this we always apply a tinted primer as a base coat. This tinted primer coat keeps the bright colors from bleeding thru the topcoats we will apply later.

Now, if I had a brain, I would have remembered to take the “After” photos of this job, but you know….

I did want to show you all what is involved in doing a good paint job, it takes time ( read: money ) . If you were to just roll some paint on top of these deep and bright colors, you’d be there all day and use a ton of paint, and it wouldn’t look good. Call us, you’ll see the difference.

Bright colors need to be primed to keep from bleeding thru

We cut in the corners and spot paint any repairs

HandymanEric crew, the park slope painters, then roll the walls with the tinted primer

practical Ikea Shelving installed by HandymanEric.com

A found objects artist moved into a new studio and we were hired to install new Ikea shelving, the omnipresent Expedit bookcase and a few Billy bookcases.

I like the shelving we installed, its practical and works well. It is similar to Elfa shelving, just as strong, but not as elegant, but then, you don’t need elegant in an art studio. You just need shelves.

This ikea shelving hangs from a top bar that we screwed into the stud in the wall

Expedit assembled and used for a work bench

I recently decided that we’re only going to use low-VOC or no-VOC paints. We’ve been using the Benjamin Moore Natura and Allura lines of paint almost exclusively, and we don’t have headaches anymore.

Previous to using the Ben Moore paints, we would wear masks all day, and now we don’t have to. Nice.

In a recent NY Times article, Stephen Treffinger reviewed low and no VOC paints, and had this to say about Benjamin Moore:

Benjamin Moore’s Natura zero-V.O.C. paint can be tinted more than 3,000 shades — the most of any paint here — and it went on the smoothest. Its smell was mild and a bit fruity, the most paint-like of any here, and it had a soft sheen, slightly less matte than the two above. It cleaned up better than the more expensive brands (although the fingerprints never completely disappeared), and it easily covered the ink marks.

If you are looking for enviromentally friendly green painters in Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Lefferts Garden, or nearby Brooklyn, please consider HandymanEric.com

Here’s a room we painted for a long time customer. This is in a pre-war on Ocean Parkway, and for a quick lunch we went to a good Indian restaurant . I wrote a review here.

If you are looking for painters in Kensington, please consider calling Handyman Eric, apartment painting and hanyman services in Kensington, Prospect Heights, Park Slope.

After repairing the walls, we spot paint them and cut the edges

Here is the room before the walls are painted

After we move the furniture back in

we painted the interior of this closet, but you can't see that from here...

Here again we are Green Painters, and I doubt we will go back to regular paint. The Benjamin Moore Natura line goes on well, and no one has any headaches.

I got a call from a client who had just bought a new HDTV and wanted to use a TV mount to hang it on an outer wall of his apartment ( the common wall is the wall that two adjoining buidlings share ). He asked me if it was easy enough for him to just go buy a stud finder and hang the HDTV mount himself.

I said no.

Why?  The common walls of Brownstone, Limestone, Queen Ann, Brick Tenements usually don’t have studs. Most of these walls are comprised of an outer wall of brick, then cement, then plaster. There might be wood lath in there, but that’s not enough to hang a HDTV on.

I do a lot of HDTV installations where the homeowner has already tried to hang the TV, and the wall has some big holes in it. Or the wall mount has fallen off the wall. Not good.

I use Hilti sleeved 4 inch masonry bolts, a hammer drill and percussive masonry drill bits to mount an HDTV. So give me a call, and I’ll come over and mount your TV, OK?

HDTV mount installation in Brooklyn

Here’s a brownstone painting job where we did something different, we painted the floors. I don’t run across this often, but apartment painting in Brooklyn has many styles. We used a high gloss white epoxy paint to paint this wood floor, and it worked out really well. Two coats are required, and it has quite an odor, as it is oil based. Plan on being away for the weekend after we paint your floor.

I also really liked the warm orange accent color the client used for this wall in the kitchen.

The new owners of this Park Slope Co-op wanted the room divider between the living room and kitchen removed.  The kitchen was pretty dark, and why not allow some of that great sunlight from the Living Room to light it up?

And who better to do the carpentry removal than HandymanEric?

My big concern here, well two concerns were: 1. had the wood flooring beneath the shelf-cabinet thing been damaged or removed?   2. what was done to the archway when the shelves were nailed in. Was the top board still there?

We were lucky this time, the floor was in good shape, save for some paint that we removed, and the top board was intact, though it had some nail holes in it.  ( we’ll be painting this apartment next week, we will take care of the plaster repair and drywall repair then. )

As were removing the debris, I walked back into the apartment, and could really see the difference taking the shelves out does. Lots of nice light, and a better feeling of space. The owner loves it as now she can have more than 4 people over for dinner in her kitchen.

We will be doing more work in the Park Slope apartment, running cable TV wire, installing a HDTV mount, and removing more shelving below the bay windows. Stay tuned for more pictures.