The idea of a firewood log wall that is whole in the spring and summer and gradually decomposes through the fall and winter is pretty cool, if you can get logs as clean and neatly cut as the ones i...
I'm making a coffee table version of this out of a heap of old lath. The smaller scale version is even easier to make: about 6 hours from selecting the boards to applying the polyurethane.
There's a high level of design thinking in the Constitution. 200 years later and it's still the ultimate in adaptive design. Its language was kept deliberately vague to allow it adapt to wishes an...
Hey all, thanks for the kind words. To answer a few questions:
@ncnovice: The rocker and ottoman were on clearance when we bought them last winter, so Babies R Us may not be carrying t...
A few years ago we had a B&W subway poster of Miles Davis hanging on a crimson red wall. T'was a showstopper. I hear red walls are passe now, but B&W looked great on it. How about a deep red-orange?
We've done it a couple of times, so I know we could do it, but we just recently got to a point where we really like 95% of what we have. We took our time finding things we really like on CL or eBay...
Switching the LR and DR isn't a bad idea because it solves the problem of where to locate the flatscreen TV. There really isn't a good location for it in the current LR, unless you put it above the...
"But wait a second, design in The New York Times is so much more than the Home section."
You're right about that! They're also aggressively unfriendly to design bloggers who want to li...
The things I love about my neighborhood are precisely the things HOAs like to outlaw. Stamping out originality in order to preserve the neighborhood "vibe" strikes me as antithetical. Or maybe th...
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Ditto on the orbital sander. I can't do without my Leatherman tool.
The idea of a firewood log wall that is whole in the spring and summer and gradually decomposes through the fall and winter is pretty cool, if you can get logs as clean and neatly cut as the ones i...
Bully rocks. the Pale Ale my favorite beer, anywhere, anytime.
I'm making a coffee table version of this out of a heap of old lath. The smaller scale version is even easier to make: about 6 hours from selecting the boards to applying the polyurethane.
There's a high level of design thinking in the Constitution. 200 years later and it's still the ultimate in adaptive design. Its language was kept deliberately vague to allow it adapt to wishes an...
someone finally found a use for out of season asparagus... awesome.
so THAT'S where the bad ideas come from...
I'd like to think that you could pick up one of Ringo's old bass drums in any vintage store in London. But that's probably not the case.
This is a really cool discussion - I've been "coloring" objects for years and had no idea there was a name for it.
LOVE IT... the couch, I mean.
Hey all, thanks for the kind words. To answer a few questions: @ncnovice: The rocker and ottoman were on clearance when we bought them last winter, so Babies R Us may not be carrying t...
forget the irrigation system, it sounds like the building is suffering from faulty or improperly working architects.
I guess the recession is over, huh?
A few years ago we had a B&W subway poster of Miles Davis hanging on a crimson red wall. T'was a showstopper. I hear red walls are passe now, but B&W looked great on it. How about a deep red-orange?
How about a stairway as a gallery?
We bought a fixture at Lowe's that very, very similar to the Artesia, for much less. Just a heads-up. AT blogged about it a year or so ago.
We've done it a couple of times, so I know we could do it, but we just recently got to a point where we really like 95% of what we have. We took our time finding things we really like on CL or eBay...
Switching the LR and DR isn't a bad idea because it solves the problem of where to locate the flatscreen TV. There really isn't a good location for it in the current LR, unless you put it above the...
"But wait a second, design in The New York Times is so much more than the Home section." You're right about that! They're also aggressively unfriendly to design bloggers who want to li...
The things I love about my neighborhood are precisely the things HOAs like to outlaw. Stamping out originality in order to preserve the neighborhood "vibe" strikes me as antithetical. Or maybe th...