Nora Rocket's Profile

DonaldN has the right of it: get rid of it and replace with a nice inflatable. Much more store-able, portable, and easier to set up than hauling a mattress out from wherever you've stashed it to clean and dress it for company.

33, married, NYC dweller, no kids yet, originally from the country (like, from the *county*. From outside a small town). I've learned a never-say-never approach, but I suspect that it's finances that will exert the most sway over where "we" "millennials" and Genwhatevers settle. If we work three jobs per household with hundreds of thou in student loads and have marginal-to-no insurance and little job security in fields that don't have geographic flexibility, hustling up a downpayment will prove the greatest barrier to any kind of choice about where we live. It won't much matter what we "would" do. We'll do what we must based on what we can afford.

ohmigosh! When I was a kid Itotally dreamed about designing and living in my own A-frame! I even drew up a rudimentary floor plan and some highly unscientific designs... I love your work here - superjoyful!

@ Paley - WIN. Indeed, and if I might coin a phrase for our old-new No Future movement: "They tread lightest who tread not at all" aaaahahahahahaha

I have, and I vow, NEVER AGAIN. It was a disaster from start to finish - beginning with slimey real estate agents and an unreliable report from the person we sent to view it (carpet /=/ hwfl, electric stove /=/ gas - and those are just my two prime dealbreakers!) and ending with a chilly winter in which we couldn't afford the oil to heat our unit (first floor of a three floor owner occupied) above 50 degrees. It was, happily, month to month, and though they stuck us with a rent-sized damage charge (on TOP OF the deposit) when we moved out, I was happy just to be gone.

NEVER AGAIN. Too many unknowns, not even related to layout, amenities, etc.

This comes the closest to "my ideal kitchen" that I've seen here - and from such familiar NYC-apt-standard roots! Definitely stirs my soup as we look to buy and renovate in Queens. Great inspiration, and nice work, all!

Suddenly I feel the need to have a STATEMENT PIECE! I love the spirit of this!

*gasp* LOVE IT

I like it - and I think I'd like it most in a bathroom (small mismatched shelving) or in a main room (low mismatched cabinets for books/media maybe?) rather than in a kitchen. Though I like it in the photo despite being given the howling fantods by the prospect of dust, street-grime (through windows), and grease particles that coat my (pre war NYC rental) kitchen cabinets...

This winter a herniated disk made bathrooming pretty, pretty hard for me for more than two weeks. I would not discount the utility of a grab bar even if you consider yourself able bodied at the moment. Perhaps treat the far-from-potty half like a large diameter towel rod, for a hand towel; and the near-potty half as a viable grab/assist spot? Injury happens. I'm 33 and did not anticipate the mobility issues I dealt with this past month.