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Progress!
Upstairs is completely done! Totally hands off of it now!
Now to tackle the Closet Where Things Go to Die...
Now to tackle the Closet Where Things Go to Die...
2009-06-17
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hearse
You can't see it from the crappy cell phone pic, but inside this hearse are three Irish Wolfhounds and two Salukis, whom their owners were just walking around moments before. It was quite the sight!
Awesome.
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Done! Sort of.
The entire interior of the house is now done and hands off, as is the back yard.
There's still some stuff (tools, trash, misc bits) in the garage, and we should do a few more exterior touchups here and there, but it's at least in a condition in which the stagers and photog can do their thing tomorrow. Final garage clearing tomorrow night and that's it!
I do feel kind of disappointed that we weren't able to get to a few of the things I wanted to do, like fixing up a few small bits of damage inside cupboards and such, but it's good enough for the short term, and we may still get to that stuff before the open house next weekend.
I'll post a link to the listing as soon as it goes live Friday. :)
After the open house, it's really just going to be a waiting game, which is fine, because it'll give me a chance to catch up with some of the housekeeping at the villa, and a few more projects I've had simmering. I also haven't played Sims 3 more than a few times since I got it and I neeeeeeeed to!
There's still some stuff (tools, trash, misc bits) in the garage, and we should do a few more exterior touchups here and there, but it's at least in a condition in which the stagers and photog can do their thing tomorrow. Final garage clearing tomorrow night and that's it!
I do feel kind of disappointed that we weren't able to get to a few of the things I wanted to do, like fixing up a few small bits of damage inside cupboards and such, but it's good enough for the short term, and we may still get to that stuff before the open house next weekend.
I'll post a link to the listing as soon as it goes live Friday. :)
After the open house, it's really just going to be a waiting game, which is fine, because it'll give me a chance to catch up with some of the housekeeping at the villa, and a few more projects I've had simmering. I also haven't played Sims 3 more than a few times since I got it and I neeeeeeeed to!
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No, I really don't care if you went to art school in New York
Perhaps the only more group of douchebags more annoying than Mac evangelists are evangelists for modern and minimalist design.
Every last one of them is an insufferable prig who doesn't want to admit to the existence of their naked emperor, which is the fact that modern design is utterly useless for the messy and chaotic realities of day-to-day living, and is thus pointless in domestic architecture and housewares.
The only thing I can think is that the people who can have a life in these sterile, cold surroundings have no children and no pets and subsist on a diet of Pelligrino and smugness.
Fortunately, I live in the Northwest, where we generally point and laugh at people who insist on trying to educate us unsophisticated hippies about the supposed superiority of spending $3.5 million for a structure that looks more or less like the cardboard box that a real house is supposed to come in. Nothing wrong with having a nice, big house if you have the cash and want it, but if you're trying to impress people around here with your glass-and-steel "distillation of form," you're not going to get very far.
Seriously--I think the whole modernist movement is really just one colossal practical joke, set up by its progenitors to see how far they can pull the wool over the eyes of the desperately pretentious and wealthy clueless. It's like the design version of Scientology or something.
Also, someone's trying to convince me that Craftsman is going to go out of style here. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Yes, darling, that would be why you just NEVER see Spanish Colonial in the Southwest or Cape Cod in New England, or neo-Victorian in Northern California anymore... *koff*
Every last one of them is an insufferable prig who doesn't want to admit to the existence of their naked emperor, which is the fact that modern design is utterly useless for the messy and chaotic realities of day-to-day living, and is thus pointless in domestic architecture and housewares.
The only thing I can think is that the people who can have a life in these sterile, cold surroundings have no children and no pets and subsist on a diet of Pelligrino and smugness.
Fortunately, I live in the Northwest, where we generally point and laugh at people who insist on trying to educate us unsophisticated hippies about the supposed superiority of spending $3.5 million for a structure that looks more or less like the cardboard box that a real house is supposed to come in. Nothing wrong with having a nice, big house if you have the cash and want it, but if you're trying to impress people around here with your glass-and-steel "distillation of form," you're not going to get very far.
Seriously--I think the whole modernist movement is really just one colossal practical joke, set up by its progenitors to see how far they can pull the wool over the eyes of the desperately pretentious and wealthy clueless. It's like the design version of Scientology or something.
Also, someone's trying to convince me that Craftsman is going to go out of style here. AHAHAHAHAHAHAH. Yes, darling, that would be why you just NEVER see Spanish Colonial in the Southwest or Cape Cod in New England, or neo-Victorian in Northern California anymore... *koff*