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
For those folks asking about shelves, I managed to find the online version of step-by-step guide to making floating shelves from hollow-core folding doors. It’s a simple process, and the results are stunning, but warning: this may not be the best option if you’re renting. Even if you alter Step #7 from “glue and then [...]
Categories: organization, place and space, storage
Tagged: carpentry, construction, shelves, storage
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- 23 . March . 2008 – 3:41 pm
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- By k2
The eternal project is DONE.
(No, I don’t mean the kitchen. That’s only been like two years.)
This project has waited its turn for, uh, wow. Over ten years. Cripes.
No, to make clear: this isn’t really my personal style, not anymore. But years ago — let’s just say it was awhile and leave it [...]
Categories: furniture, woodworking
Tagged: construction, style, upholstery
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- 27 . February . 2008 – 1:31 am
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- By k2
Okay. I’m sure I can think of grosser stupider moments, but not at this exact second.
Two, three weeks ago, I had to refresh our stock o’ virgin olive oil. Turns out the bottle had a crack, so by the time I got home, the plastic bag had a thin ooze of oil. Great. I [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation, things and more things, totally random
Tagged: electrical
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- 11 . November . 2007 – 3:49 am
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- By k2
I’ve been meaning to post these, but kept forgetting. Finally found the time to get the shots, clean them up (small room + bright flash = bad pictures, IMO), and post to galleries. But now you can see the results of my sister’s infamous near-disastrous lovely visit while she cared for our animals while we [...]
Categories: things and more things
Tagged: bath, style
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- 1 . November . 2007 – 11:41 am
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- By k2
From Stephen Fry’s blog, fryblog:
“But who can deny that design really matters? Or that good design need not be more expensive? We spend our lives inside the virtual environment of digital platforms – why should a faceless, graceless, styleless nerd or a greedy hog of a corporate twat deny us simplicity, beauty, grace, fun, sexiness, [...]
Categories: things and more things
Tagged: technology
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- 20 . September . 2007 – 6:54 pm
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- By k2
Turns out you can get it from a lot of things, and, if you’re me, you can get compound carpal tunnel — throughout wrists, fingers, up the arm and the elbow and some in the shoulders. Cripes. But I explained everything I’d managed to do in the course of screwing up muscles/joints so thoroughly, and [...]
Categories: sledgehammer renovation, things and more things
Tagged: carpentry, wild kingdom, workshop
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- 11 . May . 2007 – 3:46 pm
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- By k2
If you ask me (and you’re reading, so that counts as asking), it’s important to be aware of the importance of home as sacred space, as a place that’s both protective and inviolate and removed from what’s-out-there. And, as long as we feel like intruders or permanent guests or not-really-here in undecorated/uncommanded homes/spaces, we never [...]
Categories: furniture, organization, storage, things and more things
Tagged: living room, occupying space, office, organization, storage
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- 17 . February . 2007 – 1:20 am
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- By k2