There’s a lot of very talented people in our community here in various design areas: interior, photography, print, carpentry, web, and probably more that I’m not thinking of. Jaclyn is thinking of trying to pool the resources of all of these people together to start a design group that will serve the design needs of … Read more →
To start with, I’m uber-frutrated because I lost the last 500 words I’d written when OpenOffice crashed on me. Bollocks. Luckily, some quick thinking prevented the entire thing from being lost, otherwise I’d be starting from scratch. That aside, I’ve been listening to a lot of more rock-ish music lately, as I’ve been ready to … Read more →
Well, we’ve finished our peninsula project, finally. It took 5 days, and we are now the proud owners of a functional kitchen. Let’s let the pictures do the talking: Here’s what things looked like before. We’d picked up a rickety little table just to be able to put some things on, but it was far … Read more →
My last week has been spent constructing an addition to our kitchen. We have precious little counter space, making cooking difficult, yet a fair bit of dead space in our kitchen. Solution? Build a peninsula counter/bar to serve as a counter with additional bar-style seating to serve as a breakfast nook/work area. The initiative on … Read more →
There’s very few of these “amusing” little personality tests that I actually enjoy, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to figure out what kind of beer I was. You Are Guinness You know beer well, and you’ll only drink the best beers in the world. Watered down beers disgust you, as do the people … Read more →
Well then, I’m writing this as I take a break from the head-bashing-inducing fun of writing a 2500 word philosophy essay in 24 hours that I should have spent the past week working on, but didn’t. I’m comparing the philosophical views of Albert Camus’ The Plague, Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, Douglas Coupland’s Shampoo Planet and … Read more →