Stocking her cabinet: Shelley Spector shows off her cabinet-turned-sink. Photo By: Michael T. Regan
February 24-March 2, 2005
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Stocking her cabinet: Shelley Spector shows off her cabinet-turned-sink. Photo By: Michael T. Regan |
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Shelley Spector's Sink In A Cabinet
When Shelley Spector first bought her South Philadelphia house, the interior was hideous. It had been occupied, she recalls, by an "old Italian woman" who liked her space dark and her air stuffy. The third-floor bathroom was particularly gruesome: It featured a rusty sink top with a cotton-candy pink cabinet underneath. But Spector, who runs Spector Gallery on Bainbridge Street, wouldn't stand for an ugly bathroom. Using an old cabinet she found in her home and some basic tools, she replaced the pink monster with the structure you see at left.
Sinks are very utilitarian items, so sink-makers don't always invest a lot of energy into their products' appearance. But you're not stuck with the monstrosity in your bathroom. All you need to spruce things up is a bureau or chest of drawers, a "vanity top" (the sink bowl and surrounding flat surface) and the sink fixture itself (the spigot and the knobs). That, plus some energy. "When I bought the house, I was all about [making improvements] Every Tuesday night, I had home improvement night," she says. "Now that I'm living here, changing a light bulb is more than I can handle."
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