Yes, Vitanola, exactly. I like the idea and I like the components, but together they add up to less than the sum of the parts. I've had them wired up for a week and I'm still cool to them. They make the living room seem smaller and they impede the flow (optical, only) from one room to the...
As life pulls inexorably in one direction, I struggle in the opposite direction to get back here.
Last Sunday, for the first time in a year and a half, I was able to visit some of my favorite friends and was rewarded with a pair of room portiers. I was grateful to get them and they looked...
+1 here, too.
Daan is a great guy who put up with many questions from me and, most importantly, he put me in berets I love to wear. How many of us have made rookie purchases that ended with unsatisfactory costume pieces we won't be seen in? Daan's merchandise was top notch and they are a...
Life has been a whirlwind for the past months and I have been so disconnected from on-line haunts, I've lost the thread of most of them. If I'm repeating myself, I beg for indulgence.
The back yard was, as prior photos attest, a bombed-out disaster zone. During a conversation with the...
More often than not, after seeing the swell digs so many of you guys have, I am embarrassed by the squalor in which we live.
We had our first "Harvest Party" Saturday night in the garden. Attending were all those who helped, as well as those who helped by watching.
Wow, Fading! I am green with envy over those stacking BOOKCASES!
Great looking place! As much as I like your green window shades (because they match my complexion), but they block that great view!
Sheeplady -
My solution to your dilemma was more prosaic; I put the paper roll on the toilet tank and unscrewed the toilet paper holder from the wall and threw it away.
Edward –
Far be it from me to tell another man his business but, as it happens, I can tell you MY business…
I think somewhere else here I described the house in some detail, but I don’t remember if I admitted to filling it to the ceilings with stuff. Several rooms in the house were so full...
Hi, Kahuna -
I need to tell the story of that vase.
You are correct, it is Japanese, but it imitates Chinese art. About 10 or 15 years ago, Antiques Roadshow came to a nearby city and that vase is what I took. The appraiser who examined it was Lark or Larkin, but that's all I remember of his...
New Shades from The Handwerk Shop arrived.
They keep so much sun out of the rooms they were worth it on that count alone, but they actually add to the look I want the house to have - as near-authentic as I can get it without losing my marbles.
Back on about page 185 I posted some photos of the house as it is coming back from its burial as a cache house. I’m reluctant to use “hoard” because it was more a victim of over-zealous collecting than anything else.
The kitchen had been a great space to store acquisitions, including purchase...
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