Borage's Profile

I loved the video - but what is his solution (and so on)?

I'm wondering if it was *really* solid wood. Seems like there's a veneer or two lurking there.

Successful people. Creative? Yeah, ok. But I thought you were going to point out great artists, writers and scientists, not the people from Rich and Famous!

The key question is will you be using this long-term.

I too would LOVE to know where that light next to the bed came from, the one attached to the wall.

Please - an assist AT!

AT's categorization of the apartments makes me lose faith that they really live in apartments. 324 SF is tiny. 440 SF is small. 550 SF is not tiny! 700 SF is not small either! 1000SF is PALATIAL.

Can't you re-do the categorization? To reflect the actual 'feel' of an apartment.

Perhaps one of the best things about Jack Lemmon movies is to catch some great decor from the 50s and early 60s and from time to time some FANTABULOUS interior shots of great NYC architecture the way it used to be and the way it should always be. (Seriously, people in pre war buildings there now should not be allowed to remove ANY of the fixtures. Major sin. It kills me to see some of them advertised on Craigslist. The horror.) Anyway, the films JL appears in have those wonderful mid century modern furnishings, and they look SOOOOOOOO different than the photographed set ups of people's interiors now, going for the retro look, and I include in that the sets of Mad Men. Back in the real mid century, there were a lot of empty spaces that they did not feel self-conscious about. But today, I guess people feel they have to fill fill fill those spaces. So there's just this difference that I notice, and I wonder if those today going for the retro look realize the difference. I like the retro look too, but my point is, it is far from the way it really looked back in the mid century.

Excellent. The furniture has such .... integrity. Good "bones," as I've heard others say, but I'll say it about the furniture. No cheap Ikea cr*$. Or so it all seems to me.

I guess - no sleeping in for you? But hey, lots of great light.

In a small place, the furniture is used all. the. time. I'm not sure I would ever buy white furniture in my place. Now, if you have a separate room where you receive clean guests, that is another matter entirely. Seems to me that white upholstery is for the living room and maybe a den.

Here in the city I live in, there's a big so-called "smart" movement. Let me just say I've lived in this city nearly all my life and I love it. But I do have some problems with "Smart Growth." Many of its advocates, first of all, are house-owning, car-owning people who preach the carless and micro-living gospel. The hypocrisy can be sooo tiresome. (And yeah? obvious)

The particular space I happen to live in is pretty small, and while I like not having a lot of .... stuff and space to maintain, I want a larger space to be able to ENTERtain better. No doubt about that.

There was an interesting editorial in our local examiner today about how our city really is into sending kids to school at a super early age, like 3! I laughed and thought, yeah, because many kids live in such tiny spaces. Might as well get out of the house. Kind of a joke, but kind of true.

This article raises lots of interesting questions about living and space. The huge majority of Americans have zero idea how to live like this. There's no doubt it can be done, and to some extent it should be done. But there's no modulation in the thinking about it, or I should say there's not much. We do NOT and should not have to go micro. That's for England and Japan, I'm sorry to say. And not even England lives like that. In fact, they can tell us how to use space so much better than we are now. There's even a development in the works (and yeah, developers RULE here) of micro apartments with NO WINDOWS. Why oh why do we want to encourage this barbarism?

The mistake the "Smart Growth" (trademark sign) movement makes is in NOT planning for families but going density full bore and without really thinking. Cities that do not plan for growth by families are cities that will die a consumerist death.