The wish-list for what will never be. Different doors: Change the bathroom door into a pocket door. Fellow Vancouverite, Karen, promises it’s money well-spent – but it’s a job saved for next time – Tiny Ugly Bathroom II More plants: Install an actual green wall (because there would magically be enough light & I’d magically have [...]
Isn’t it priceless when old people fight in public? We’ll get to that. First – evolution. The apartment laundry room didn’t just magically improve itself – it took exactly 50 bad ideas before someone else gave us the answer. The closet with which we started. (Which led to the pipe dream. As illogical as always). [...]
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Ask me where my keys are. Go on. I know the answer. I know the answer every single second of every single day. THEY’RE IN THE DRAWER!!!! A year’s derailment through chaos and disorder - not always the fault of the apartment renovation. Apartments don’t have obvious foyers or dumping grounds and, previously, all these keep-on-your-person-things would [...]
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We know, we know, we know. We’re extremely lucky to have what almost constitutes a laundry room. It’s apartment gold. (Previously: hopes & dreams for our apartment laundry room, a stupid flooring choice and a Canadian saves the day). The laundry room had come with this thing: shoddy plywood and an inconvenient closet rail. (Its placement [...]
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Amongst my life goals – best friendship with Kate Middleton. We’ll play Monopoly, and I’ll ensure she slums it. While renovating, board games were a distant ideal – things for people with excesses of wine and perfectly patched walls and ceilings. Having the time – and the table – to play them would certify all [...]
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This was our apartment laundry room on Day 1. A boring, ugly little corner we knew we were lucky to have. Many apartments – if they have in-suite laundry – have it tucked in a tiny closet. At 25 square feet this one almost had room to wander. Storage space, with laundry, right next to [...]
Continuing from “What I’d tell myself a year ago” – the most crucial thing I’d change next time… get rid of more stuff before moving – and better organize what’s left. Putting stuff in storage - a master stroke; utter genius. Last summer, after a major stuff-cull, Paolo & I were shoving things into whatever vessel [...]
We’ve had various plagues around here. The first was popcorn, the second – silverfish. The most lasting of all was Paolo’s box spring. Recall last year when we tried (and failed X50) to buy a stupid bed? Yea. That’s how long the old box spring has been living in our living room. Challenge: Get rid of 2 double mattresses [...]
You know you read too much Apartment Therapy when you can walk into any room, anywhere, and name by type each and every piece of Ikea within. Some Ikea I completely adore: I kiss our Ikea butcher block counters thrice daily. Our Ikea Bekvam kitchen cart and Ingo dining table are looking pretty snappy these [...]
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(9 days to possession) We’ve been packing for some time now. Just a little every day… 20 minutes after dinner to avoid doing the dishes. A little more on a weekend morning – coffee in one hand, tape gun in the other. It’s amazing how much our wall of boxed “stuff” is growing, while we continue [...]
