New house in an old neighbourhood of Wroclaw, Poland, in the NYT today. Spruce on the outside, particle board on the inside, and the whole thing cost US$80,000 to build.
More Polish Modern
November 11, 2009
DIY
Now that it’s November this is known as a “fall pumpkin carving.”
November 4, 2009
Hallowe’en is over but this fantastic Japanese raccoon figure survives. I wish it could stay there all winter. It was seen at this cool little bungalow – brick, which is unusual for Vancouver – a block away from the studio.
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Bungalow
carving
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Downtown Eastside
East Van
Hallowe'en
house
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Keefer Street
Miyazaki
Pumpkin
raccoon
Scott Plumbe
Strathcona
tanuki
Vancouver
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The generic little house known as the Vancouver Special: Before
October 3, 2009
This house, as any Vancouverite knows, is what is known as a Vancouver Special. It’s a type of generic builder’s house, built mostly between about 1965 and 1985, that is entirely specific to this city.
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design,
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One of these things is not like the other.
May 30, 2009
This is the best costume for today
May 6, 2009
“This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don’t like women in skirts, and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt – I think – then you have the pants under the skirt, and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt, and you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape.
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2 the Walls
2thewalls
avant-garde
Big Edie
cats
conceptual
conceptual design
creativity
dilapidated
DIY
fashion
Grey Gardens
Hamptons
house
Little Edie
madness
Marc Jacobs
raccoons
repair
rundown
The Beales
The Maysles
this is the best costume for today
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How Greeks hang things on walls
March 15, 2009
There is something so beautiful about the way photographs and other objects are hung on the walls in traditional rooms in Greece. The objects are prized yet there’s also something casual and unprecious about the way they accumulate.
Man discovers darning by accident.
February 28, 2009
This blog post by Mr. Skona wins this week’s prize for ingenuity and charm.
My lovely wool socks (please excuse the pills) were starting to get a little threadbare around the heels and the ball of the foot.
DIY Martin Margiela waistcoat
February 8, 2009
Martin Margiela is never entirely serious nor entirely flippant, which is part of what makes him an interesting artist. For example his site. This waistcoat how-to was produced by Maison Margiela and is courtesy The Guardian, where you can find many other odd DIY tutorials, like Jade Jagger’s punk bracelet.
DIY: paint your linoleum floor white
February 3, 2009
When I moved into this typical 1930s apartment in Vancouver’s east side in 1999, the first thing I did was paint over the kitchen’s dingy gold linoleum flooring. The linoleum was the worst thing about that apartment.
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1930s
all-white
apartment
Apartment Therapy
baltic birch
birch
Canada
Charles Street
Commercial Drive
DIY
floor paint
folding screen
installation art
kitchen
painted floor
plywood
room divider
Vancouver
white floor
white room
whiteness
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Egle Amaldi’s bookshelf & modernist Cado shelving
January 17, 2009
These staggered, airy midcentury modern arrangements are so much less chichi than the many fancified contemporary bookshelves you see around.
I love this simple, balanced living room belonging to Italian architect Egle Amaldi in the 1960s.
