Archive for January, 2010

Project the Kitchen (part 1)

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Sometimes you fall in love with a house.

Hard.

Maybe it’s the thought of the living history. Maybe it’s the fireplace in every room. Maybe it’s the 200-year-old wide-plank pine floors (*swoon*). In any case, sometimes you fall so completely and wholly in love with a house, that maybe, just maybe, you agree to buy said house without realizing that it has no refrigerator.

Once you’ve promised to buy said house sans refrigeration, you start to wonder maybe why the house lacks a refrigerator. Perhaps because the kitchen is, shall we say, a bit small. Perhaps because the kitchen has approximately just barely enough square footage to accommodate, say, an ADA-compliant bathroom. Perhaps a refrigerator prevents entry or exit from the kitchen.

la petite cuisine

la petite cuisine

vraiment, c'est une cuisinette....

vraiment, c'est une cuisinette....



One can only wonder at these things.

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Project the Second

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

After a bad moth experience in the old condo, Lucky and Corypheus blithely threw themselves into lining the main bedroom closets with cedar. Lucky had to pry out the cemented-in shelves with a crowbar, resulting in unsightly and unstable holes down to the brick, which he decided to plaster over.

hmm....

hmm....

unsightly & unstable

unsightly & unstable













At this juncture, I’m going to point out that he has never plastered anything before.

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