It doesn’t help that a) we have lots of CDs and I mean LOTS of ‘em and b) there’s a major trade-off between being able to store a lot in a small space versus being able to use them efficiently. Sure, if you only want to store something then you can get more creative on design because you’re mostly storing the item(s) in the most efficient way and the only external design element is how neatly you camouflage it… but if you want to also use the item? Cripes. Plus, how to store something with an eye towards accessible, efficient use without turning the item into this massive eye-pain of “wow, you’ve got a lot of X.”
Categories: organization
Tagged: media, renovation, storage
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- 21 . October . 2008 – 1:08 pm
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- By k2
Because MY PLUMBAGO PLANT IS GONE.
GONE.
As in, NOT THERE ANYMORE.
THE ENTIRE THING.
I kept that plant alive all summer when everything else had died, and I kept staving it back up when Balto seemed to think it was fun to dig around the roots — remulched, put down heavier rocks around the base, etc. And the [...]
Categories: horde of hyenas
Tagged: yard
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- 7 . October . 2008 – 2:25 pm
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- By k2
The floor had been about 90% done except for the last four feet stretch to the wall where the CDs were shelved, because we have too many goddamn CDs and moving them is always a hassle at least and a nightmare at worst. But if I was starting to get antsy about the incompleteness — [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation
Tagged: design, electrical, flooring, storage
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- 7 . October . 2008 – 12:54 pm
- Author:
- By k2
If the font looks too large or small on your screen, it may be my coding and it may be your browser. I’ve noticed Safari is making the general text (in posts) look half the size I’d intended, while Firefox seems to be the right size, and who knows what IE is doing (will check [...]
Categories: look & feel
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- 24 . August . 2008 – 1:52 pm
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- By k2
Somewhere there’s a closing div that FFX wants and IE7 doesn’t, so if you’re looking at this in IE6/IE7 then you’re probably seeing the sidebar menu… somewhere down at the bottom, below all entries. I’ll fix it as soon as I can get the Mac set up side-by-side with a IE machine, and then start [...]
Categories: interfaces
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- 18 . August . 2008 – 3:23 pm
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- By k2
No one can manage it half as well as the real thing.
Categories: horde of hyenas
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- 18 . August . 2008 – 6:04 am
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- By k2
While researching the question of what to use in the kitchen — cork, sealed concrete, vinyl, tile, etc — I kept coming back to cork as a warm comfortable standing surface. (With the added benefit, unlike concrete or tile, that things falling on it wouldn’t chip the floor nor automatically break the object, err, depending [...]
Categories: interior style
Tagged: conservation, kitchen, materials, research
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- 14 . August . 2008 – 4:04 pm
- Author:
- By k2
please to not be flash-flooding me until AFTER I have completed all perimeter retaining walls, kthxbai.
Categories: landscaping
Tagged: future plans
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- 25 . April . 2008 – 11:46 pm
- Author:
- By k2