Arlette's Profile

... Not to mention warehouses and live/work places are often in run-down or industrial 'hoods, so everything has fences and gates and you feel like you're living in a compound.

I really dug my year in a former furniture factory in Oakland, but whenever I start to miss all that space, I sweep the hardwood floor in my room in a 1913 Craftsman, listen to the finches in the honeysuckle outside and remember how the freight trains ran just a couple hundred feet behind my old building.

I like it! Looks soothing.

(Also -- are the people whining about the lack of photos missing the " short, quick tours of readers' homes" part?)

I mount mine on adhesive-backed magnetic sheets and use them as fridge magnets. They look neat, since they're all about the same size and color and have that nice, regular shape.