Before & After: A Brooklyn Kitchen Opens Up -- Sweeten

Dating in New York is notoriously brutal, and so is buying real estate, which lends itself to a robust market for fixer-uppers. After living for six years in a rented apartment in Brooklyn's Prospect Heights neighborhood, Jill and Aaron were ready to buy -- but everything they could find in their desired neighborhoods, within their price range, was less than appealing. Finally they found a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment, with a space that they could convert into a den, in a building three b...