rkuchinsky's Profile

Display Name:	rkuchinsky
Personal URL:	http://www.directivecollective.com
Member Since:	8/4/09

Latest Comments...

Nice loft. Fellow TOist here. You've done a great job with the loft and the renoed kitchen goes a long way. I've seen a lot of units in the Merchandise lofts and the original kitchen cabinets and appliances installed in most of them (circa 90's were terrible). What a difference you've made! Two questions - where is the wall mounted ladder/towel rack in the bathroom from? Also, where'd you score the letterpress from? Great tour, thanks. R PS. saw on your website you did the Lakeview menu. Good job on that too! One of my fave places in my hood and I immediately kept a sample of the menu when I first visited because of the design. Too bad now they got rid of the newprint paper one and have a laminated in plastic version :( Doesn't do your design justice. Mel Dave's Industrial Chic Loft House Tour \| Apartment Therapy Chicago Flag this comment	4/5/10 12:40 AM
Orange chairs are Steelcase. Can't recall the designer. I also have one with rollers and previously had quite a large set of them... again, all from the Bata building here in Toronto. I can't read the model number on mine so hard to find more info, but I know I once came upon the designer and more info online. sure with a bit of googling you might be able to come up with something. R Richard Takes Downtown House Tour \| Apartment Therapy Chicago Flag this comment	1/1/10 8:30 PM
nice space. Argyle lofts, right? On Dovercourt.... ( a few blocks from where I'm at) love the collections and use of the space though more pics of the space and layout would be helpful in seeing the full feeling of the space. R PS. Always loved those Tabacci signs in Italy an in places like Terroni here in TO. Apartment Therapy Chicago \| House Tour: Melissa Henry's Small Live/Work Home Flag this comment	9/9/09 7:38 PM
The shovel thing is indeed a boblbee backpack http://www.boblbee.com/ The map came like that. Another score from the Bata Building auction. The wood mobile is something made (crafted you could say) from a local Toronto designer, Dennis Lin, http://www.umomo.com/ I picked it up a craft fair for a very reasonable amount, but more recently have also seen it at a high end design shop selling for 3x more than I paid for it! Blandwagon, no I do not have a 1970s 1:100 scale model Boeing 747 hanging over his desk.. though I would like one. There is actually a travel agents office near me that has something like that in the window and every time I drive by I hope the place is going out of business and I could score the model! R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| Richard Takes Downtown House Tour Flag this comment	9/3/09 3:41 PM
Brock Lofts, you got it! R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| Richard Takes Downtown House Tour Flag this comment	9/3/09 2:10 PM
Yup its the Citterio Diesis sofa. It is super comfy (can't even count the number of times I've fallen asleep on it watching TV. Maybe minimalist at heart would be a better way to put it? Or that the place would be minimalist if I had all of the same stuff but had a 3000 sq. ft. dream loft.. ? If it makes any difference, here's a pic of what it looked like right after I moved in and before I got lots of the things- http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3883181476_0cdfb3bc88_o.jpg (though to be fair some of the other things were in storage at the time). It's funny how just having a space seems to fuel the need to fill it, perhaps. R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| Richard Takes Downtown House Tour Flag this comment	9/2/09 9:28 PM
Hi, this is my place. Thanks for all the positive comments! No the sofa hasn't yet been recovered or restuffed, but I am actually planning on doing that soon. Just need to find a good upholsterer here in Toronto. If anyone knows one, let me know. The company that makes the sofa wanted more money to replace just the seat cushions that I bought the entire thing for! Yup, you can all gumballs. I normally keep a dish of dimes beside it, but you can get one if you just jiggle the handle... If you have any more questions, I'd be happy to try to answer them here. R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| Richard Takes Downtown House Tour Flag this comment	9/2/09 5:55 PM
chalkboard walls can be both tacky and very awesome depending on the application, IMHO. I recently did the sliding barn door in my hard loft in chalkboard paint as it sits beside my home office in my hard loft and wanted to add some more visual texture to the otherwise all white walls and vintage furniture. not only visually interesting but actually very useful (has all my work to dos and weekly calendar updated every two weeks). I went one step farther though than normal chalkboard paint and wet sanded the wall about 6 times so the actual surface is super smooth like a real slate chalkboard. next addition I'm planning on the same lines is a cork tile wall. I'm into the 60's office space type feeling as you can see in the pics :) pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/25843617@N00/sets/72157621940502383/ R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| Communicative Decor for Busy Households Flag this comment	8/17/09 11:59 AM
Ikea or otherwise, you can't get any more in time-consumption and frustration that with the Norman Copenhagen 69 lamp. http://www.connox-shop.com/categories/lamps/suspensions/normann-copenhagen-norm-69.html Depending on the size, it comes with no less than about 65 pieces of flat plastic that you need to bend and clot into place. It's a pretty simple instruction manual and well laid out, but the actual manual work involved is very time consuming and at time, extremely frustrating. As you near the final assembly (it's done from top to bottom) you practically need children's hand's to fit inside it and make the connections. I bought my first lamp as the the first lighting to have in a new apartment I moved into in Denmaark (apartments sold there have no light fixtures included. I started around 4pm after unpacking and was well into darkness (lit only by a candle) almost 3 hours into it by the time it was complete and ready to wire. R PS. if the assembly of this lamp is tough, even more difficult is replacing a bulb. You need to guide your hand inside the lobster-trap like plastic spikes while somehow holding the lamp base to unscrew the bulb through the narrow slits in the plastic panels. I dread replacing bulbs... don't get me wrong. it's a great lamp and they have good service (replaced a few parts that had broken or melted immediately after sending them an email), it's just a biatch to assemble. R Apartment Therapy Chicago \| What's Your Worst Furniture Assembly Story? Flag this comment	8/4/09 8:22 PM