Regular readers of this blog (thanks for that, by the way!) are pretty familiar with our apartment's rather minimal aesthetic. It's now time to head downstairs and reveal what lurks below, in our enormous basement. Whoa. This is what happens you have virtually unlimited storage space. It's an embarrassment of riches. From the few episodes [...]
We have the luxury of two small extra bedrooms in our apartment: one is used for the guest room, the other is used as my project room. It swings wildly from tidy to chaotic. It exploded into a mess recently, as you can see, but after a new year's organizing frenzy, I think I have [...]
Three quick items to share: 1) Meat! I picked up our fourth meatload from Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm (see #1 and #2 - I didn't get a picture of #3 because it occurred on moving day). We receive a share every other month and it's plenty for our meat-cooking needs. Look at that giant rack of ribs! [...]
The pictures I included in the last post had me thinking that two big flat-weave rugs looked too, well, flat and what I needed instead was a low pile rug for under the dining table and a plush rug for under the coffee table. I picked up the VITTEN at IKEA this past weekend. The [...]
As seen in the previous post, nearly all of the kitchen stuff is located along one wall, making the room sort of anchorless and not very user-friendly. I was won over by the STENSTORP island at IKEA: huge real wood top, stainless steel shelves, space for bar stools. I thought it would be awesome in our [...]
Project Palermo 