IT WAS A SIMPLER TIME, FOUR MONTHS AGO, WHEN I WAS ONLY TALKING about renovating my kitchen. What better way, I thought, to get to know this process—the questions, the stress—before we published HB’s first-ever Kitchen Issue? Well, I’m in it—and I’ve got the most incredible designer, Jean Stoffer, and the most knowledgeable partners (Caesarstone, Elkay, Emtek, GE Monogram, Pella). But it’s a LOT. And it’s definitely not what you see on TV: A cool computer rendering, phony budgets and deadlines, and a glossy reveal. It’s complicated, expensive, and overwhelming. Over the next few months, you’ll see the entire process (and the pain points) come to life, both here and on HouseBeautiful.com. In the meantime, we channeled all of my angst into this package (and this entire issue, frankly) so that…
