{"id":10903,"date":"2019-01-03T22:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2019-01-09T22:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:55:55","slug":"daily_1469_-_kitchen_shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2019\/01\/03\/daily_1469_-_kitchen_shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1469 &#8211; kitchen shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1469_cabinet_door.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nShopping for kitchen cabinets.<\/p>\n<p>I had a go almost exactly a year ago but didn&#8217;t get too far. How can you possibly compare two cabinets when you can&#8217;t even see them side by side because every brand insists on having their own, separate showroom? It was all too much work.<\/p>\n<p>This time I found a shop that sells several unrelated brands of kitchen cabinets, all at roughly the kind of level (in terms of price and quality) that I&#8217;m interested in &#8211; including two brands that I went and poked at last year, so now I could actually compare them side by side. Plus there was a salesperson\/kitchen designer there who I really &#8220;clicked&#8221; with. She had just the right amount of salesiness, letting me browse without being pushy, and then showing me alternatives that I hadn&#8217;t noticed but that I quite liked, and before I knew it we were talking measurements and booking a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>This is looking quite promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping for kitchen cabinets. I had a go almost exactly a year ago but didn&#8217;t get too far. How can you possibly compare two cabinets when you can&#8217;t even see them side by side because every brand insists on having their own, separate showroom? It was all too much work. This time I found a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10906,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions\/10906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}