http://www.karinoyo.com deconstruction. education. unstill life with hounds. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:01:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/579 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/579#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:08:04 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=579
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." ]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/579/feed 1 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/280 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/280#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:41:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2008/03/when-you-own-a-thousand-books/
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/280/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/276 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/276#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:31:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2008/02/shakes-fist-i-am-not-an-aries-damn-it/
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/276/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/240 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/240#comments Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:49:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/11/ewwwwww-stupid/
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/240/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/238 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/238#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:41:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/11/ducked/
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/238/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/236 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/236#comments Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:54:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/09/hell-yeah-quote-of-the-day/
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, [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/236/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/230 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/230#comments Fri, 11 May 2007 19:46:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/2007/05/yes-it-was-carpal-tunnel-pix/
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/230/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:20:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=100
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 [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/100/feed 2 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99#comments Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:19:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=99
After the last week or so of nonstop go-go-go (with the final note of it all being the news a friend is shipping off to Iraq for a month, sigh), I realized the best sanity saver is to avoid deep thoughts and chase the shiny, which for me will always be How To Occupy Space. [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/99/feed 0 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/80 http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/80#comments Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:39:00 +0000 k2 http://www.karinoyo.com/?p=80
My grandmother used to call it “getting or-gin-ized,” where /gin/ is the same as the alcoholic beverage. Right on the tails of the Amazing Wardrobe Reconstruction, I seem to be feeling this sudden flare-up of Virgoan Organization Syndrome, which is quite peculiar. It only happens about every two or three years, and it’s quite terrifying; there [...]]]> http://www.karinoyo.com/archives/80/feed 0