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we went to Marfa at the start of the month and had an amazing time. We were insanely lucky and arrived there on Community Day, which meant the Judd Foundation and Chinati were all open and completely free. We ended … Continue reading →
latest unhealthy design fixation: house numbers
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Whilst street-gawking at R.M. Schindler's Buck House last week, we admired the abstractified house numbers he (presumably) made for the garage apartment:Note how he "found" the circle motif in each of the numbers (5 9 5 8) and kept the circle the same for [...]
infinite space
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Walked over to the Arthouse to see "Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner" (on the rooftop: sweet!). The documentary is fair to midland but worth a view. [...]
the Cool House Tour is coming!
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I'm clearly not on the email invite list since I just learned of this, the coolest of the house tours... The 2012 Cool House Tour is June 3rd, 10am to 6pm, $20 a head. We've really enjoyed the tour in the past and hope to see the sites again this year. In [...]
cubist poopers
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I've been trying to convince the bride that we need a cubist toilet in the powder room.me: Wouldn't it be awesome for someone to go use the pooper and be, like, WTF?!?!?!?!she: No.One concern of hers is the actual use of a cubist pooper. I've been [...]
basement progress: prepping for the slab pour
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Sure enough, after the last marathon weekend of working in the basement Kyle caught some type of flu-like funk and was out of commission for a week. But by last Monday he rallied enough to pour the concrete footings and finish prepping for our plumbing inspection. On Friday, the inspector came out to sign off on our [...]
sound advice
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We do love us some tunes. At our previous house, I wired the office up to the living room and then back to the kitchen to have ”partial house audio”. It was nice, and we’d like to do this at our new house as well. Ideally, we’d like:- surround [...]
zerbebe nursery: odds and ends
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We’ve been in a bit of a lull with the nursery progress. With the main pieces complete (or yet to be built), I’ve been focusing on textiles and other odds and ends instead. Lots of decisions to make, but no real progress yet. So, a status update of sorts: 1. Curtains - I still like [...]
housework: bidset, interior design
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Been a busy week for my working and non-working lives, so very little time to blog (I still haven't finished with L.A.!). But we've reached a milestone: (near) completion of the bid set, the set of the construction documents that are hard biddable! To [...]
LEGOhaus: Take 2
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Been getting lots of peer pressure to build the LEGO house despite the challenges. Even received some LEGO donations (thank you!). Concerned about cost, I decided to revisit the design and build on a 1x1x1 brick equal 2 feet by 2 feet by feet scale [...]
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