Archive for 2009

Priming

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

We spent the weekend trying to finish up the exterior priming of the house. Its like entering the fifth level of hell getting the primer in all the cement nooks and crannies. At least the house will finally be sealed! No more water weeping in and screwing up the interior plaster.

We still have this side of the house to do (first the weeds need to be cut down) and parts of the garage. Then we can get to the actual painting of a color besides blinding white primer. Hooray…I guess…

I’m very tired of painting at this point.

Light it up

Monday, June 1st, 2009


I found this 70’s brass ball light at a junkyard by my house for $7. I’ve tried cleaning it up, but it had been sitting outside for awhile and suffered a bit of wear and tear to the brassy finish. it works great though.

Its sort of floated around the house not really feeling “right” anywhere and I didn’t really think of putting it in the master bedroom since it wasn’t part of a pair. I slammed it on the nightstand since I desperately needed a reading light and ended up really liking it with the crazy glam chandelier. A pair may be overkill though and I’m not sure if I need another bedside light…

I do need a headboard. I’m thinking a long and lean finished plywood panel…hmmmm.

So the other thought is having a totally different type of light. Is it really fussy to have two totally different lights next to a bed? I was thinking of doing some sort of wall mounted black Bauhaus style industrial light on the other side.


Like this.

Or this

But you know “inspired” by. There is no way I’m buying a lamp for like thousands of dollars. I’m looking for something in the price range of 10’s of dollars.

Ebay

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

I got my candle holder from Ebay!

Its so BIG. Now I just need some actual candles.

It must have come from a smokers house. When I opened the box it smelled like a dead Las Vegas cocktail waitress’s mouth. There was just this wave of stale cigarette stench. It has totally taken a few days for the candle holder to off-gas. GROSS.

The perils of Ebay I guess…