Our Draper and Kramer managers hire consultants for thousands of dollars. Hiring an "experienced" professional consultant is important, but should not replace common sense. Our Voting Bloc board members relish their total control, but lack oversight competence. Our "closed committee" structure bears some responsibility also. We learn slowly that expermenting is expensive to all owners, both rich, and those with less assets to spend carelessly.
Now we will have to refinish many of the oak stained service area doors, or paint all of them.
We could have ordered horizontal signs to cover the old varnished area.
It also appears that signage on the storage room doors on the upper floors were forgotten. Hopefully Draper & Kramer will learn from our experience, and order signs that anticipate the possibly damaged surface below the existing signs.
During the hallway decorating, the surfaces were not anticipated on the cement floor, the wallpaper on the inner hallway wall, or the patching on the end walls. We learn slowly...
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On February 6, 2006, the day after this webpage was made available to the 155harbor.org email list, work had begun on either refinishing or repainting the service area doors.