Erin Mills, Mississauga

Every other kitchen on this site went white, off-white or grey. This one went green.

• Espresso sprayed a light green, doors in the shop and frames in the home
• New handles on every door and drawer
• Counters and backsplash on no line of this estimate

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   The panels came back from the booth before anything else in the room had changed, so for one afternoon the kitchen held both colours at once. You cannot judge a green like this on a chip. It is a colour that behaves differently across four square feet than it does across forty, which is the reason this photograph exists at all.

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   A kitchen this size is never one run of cabinets. The desk at the end of it is a second kitchen in miniature — glass-fronted uppers, a bar sink, drawers either side of the knee-hole — and every piece of it came off, went to the booth and came back with the rest. Count the doors, not the rooms.

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   03

   The tile that was here came off and did not come back. That wall is somebody else's next job, and it is worth photographing rather than hiding — the cabinets are the whole of this estimate. Where the green stops is where our work stopped, and a finished photograph that pretends otherwise is selling someone else's trade as ours.