We wash the exhaust hood filters, stove top parts and the on/off dials etc. Toaster oven tray. All the things that get splattered by grease. Some of the things listed here are overkill. BTW - you c...
Ladies, remember to wear your panties!
The last comment that I wrote was about dropping names and pedegries of furnishings. And about dogmas and creating political statements instead of livin...
Renegades!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How will people ask you to drop the names and pedegrees of your furnishings?
Errr. Your kitchen is a bit too dogmatic. Unless you never prepare food...
Fireplaces! Yeah, let's pretend that we are 16th century English gentleman, and fill our lungs with good old fashioned soot!
In Montreal, burning wood was recently banned in some areas becaus...
When I look at the details of that house, and imagine that there is a sidewalk out in front, and where to walk, and that kids in Brookline are allowed to walk to school, and there are trolleys and ...
A sink is a sink - except for one like this one. When does one put the tootpaste, after you put it on the brush? Oh, I forgot, the bathroom is really a shrine to the Goddess of Poop and My Success....
Less is more.
What I love about these Danish homes, is the lightness and enjoyment of simplicity, without turning it into a dogma.
Everything is livable. No pretentious nonsence. No col...
Wood trim and details once always carpenters' logic to them. The design of door panels and window mullions grew out of how wood was milled and assembled. They had a practical purpose as well. When ...
Everybody is commenting on "what to do" and nobody is commenting on what there is:
Victorian architecture was fussy, and often a smorgasbord of historican styles. New technologies made adding...
There comes a time, when even those paintings and prints that are worthwhile looking at, just become space fillers on the wall.
Closets then become a blessing. Rotating artwork restores their...
Pretension comes in all shapes and sizes.
Marie Antoinette built a little make believe farm village in the corner of the Versailles gardens, so she could make believe that she was a mi...
It's only hard for you short armed mamas.
Baby strollers made to be pushed by midgets (in my pushing days, that's all that there were) were the curse of my life and downfall of my back.
California? Outdoor Living?
On my first trip to LA, I saw a pedestrian.
Last year I was in San Diego. Saturday morning, amazing weather, hour long walk thru older, prewar neighborhoods....
That Danish Modern stuff was everywhere when I ws a kid. It was beautiful then. It was beautiful when it went out of fashion. and it remains just as beautiful today.
On rare occassions, desig...
Especially Obama's.
And Kim Jong-il's. Peronality cults are mind erasing. Even when they are PC.
About that painting that matches the upholstery: My theory is that the sofa came first....
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90% of the heat goes up the chimney. Fire places are a most rediculous way to heat, unless you really enjoy breathing smoke.
We wash the exhaust hood filters, stove top parts and the on/off dials etc. Toaster oven tray. All the things that get splattered by grease. Some of the things listed here are overkill. BTW - you c...
Ladies, remember to wear your panties! The last comment that I wrote was about dropping names and pedegries of furnishings. And about dogmas and creating political statements instead of livin...
Renegades!!!!!!!!!!!!! How will people ask you to drop the names and pedegrees of your furnishings? Errr. Your kitchen is a bit too dogmatic. Unless you never prepare food...
Fireplaces! Yeah, let's pretend that we are 16th century English gentleman, and fill our lungs with good old fashioned soot! In Montreal, burning wood was recently banned in some areas becaus...
When I look at the details of that house, and imagine that there is a sidewalk out in front, and where to walk, and that kids in Brookline are allowed to walk to school, and there are trolleys and ...
A sink is a sink - except for one like this one. When does one put the tootpaste, after you put it on the brush? Oh, I forgot, the bathroom is really a shrine to the Goddess of Poop and My Success....
Less is more. What I love about these Danish homes, is the lightness and enjoyment of simplicity, without turning it into a dogma. Everything is livable. No pretentious nonsence. No col...
Modest, unaffected and charming. I love your combination of honesty, practicality and great taste.
Wood trim and details once always carpenters' logic to them. The design of door panels and window mullions grew out of how wood was milled and assembled. They had a practical purpose as well. When ...
Everybody is commenting on "what to do" and nobody is commenting on what there is: Victorian architecture was fussy, and often a smorgasbord of historican styles. New technologies made adding...
Other than the formica, the table has a lovely sculptural quality. I wish you many pleasurable meals with famly and friends,
Mirrored backsplash? OK if you don't use your kitchen for preparing food.
Poor sheep.
There comes a time, when even those paintings and prints that are worthwhile looking at, just become space fillers on the wall. Closets then become a blessing. Rotating artwork restores their...
Pretension comes in all shapes and sizes. Marie Antoinette built a little make believe farm village in the corner of the Versailles gardens, so she could make believe that she was a mi...
It's only hard for you short armed mamas. Baby strollers made to be pushed by midgets (in my pushing days, that's all that there were) were the curse of my life and downfall of my back.
California? Outdoor Living? On my first trip to LA, I saw a pedestrian. Last year I was in San Diego. Saturday morning, amazing weather, hour long walk thru older, prewar neighborhoods....
That Danish Modern stuff was everywhere when I ws a kid. It was beautiful then. It was beautiful when it went out of fashion. and it remains just as beautiful today. On rare occassions, desig...
Especially Obama's. And Kim Jong-il's. Peronality cults are mind erasing. Even when they are PC. About that painting that matches the upholstery: My theory is that the sofa came first....