Last you saw this wall-mounted bottle opener (see here), I had not yet hung a cap receptacle. I fixed that this afternoon after picking up an ASKER container at IKEA. The ASKAR is flat-backed, so it hugs the wall nice and close. The bottle opener, by the way, is the Classic Zinc Starr X from Amazon. [...]
Before: After: Done and done. I'll hang something below the bottle opener eventually, but for now the caps fall into a small pail. After hanging items on our cardboard & playdough lathe & plaster walls, drilling straight into solid wood felt goddamn luxurious. Cheers!
When Jarrod and I order sushi the quantity is such that no one can imagine we're feeding any fewer than five people, so there are a lot of extra chopsticks in this house. Which is fine by me because they're great for all sorts of alternative purposes, like shims and paint stirrers. (Although, let me [...]
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 [...]
For the record, my blog's namesake is not Project Runway. My blog is named in honor of the 1995 hit Clueless, which had a major impact on my susceptible teenage brain. I remember poring over the JC Penney catalog for plaid pleated skirts and sweater twinsets. GoFugYourself.com hit the nail on the head in this Wallace Shawn post: "It’s [...]
Project Palermo 