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munchkin corner
With every good intention imaginable, we've had some flavor of table and chairs in this corner of the family room since we moved into this house. Though instead of a consistent place to either eat dinner or sit and make fun of drug-addled celebrities when we have company over, ninety-five percent of the time our table and chairs functioned as a mail bin or coat rack. So, our Saarinen repros got thrown on craigslist (reaping an assload of money), and Munchkin Corner breathed its waking breath. At least now I don't have to cringe every time one of our friends called our table and chairs "Jetsons furniture"....
Jul 22, 2010
sanding in small spaces
In starting work on our office, I replaced a medium sized portion of sheetrock, and put up new door casings. After letting the plaster set, I needed to sand everything down....
Jul 19, 2010
and so it begins
In an effort to get rid of a lot of what hasn't worked, we began trolling craigslist and eBay for things that would. E made some incredible finds. We paid obscenely low prices for our favorite 1950s and 1960s dressers and credenzas (or as our friend Wes refers to them, "that boring Mad Men shit")....
Jul 17, 2010
christmas tree redux
It took us all of four seconds after the artificial tree debacle to pendulum swing all the way back to wanting a real tree. E said she knew of a tree lot near our house, so last night we packed up the car and headed over there....
Dec 14, 2009
wackest christmas tree ever
Last weekend began our quest for a Christmas tree. E and I have both used real trees for quite some time now, including the last few years while we've been together. This year, for the sake of everyone's allergies, we decided to purchase the first fake (excuse me, "artificial") tree either of us have had since the 1980s....
Dec 13, 2009