What is the Perfect House?

perfect house?

by admin on March 30, 2009

A guy up the street from me painted his brick house…robin-egg blue. Lovely. To him, though, it was a crowning aesthetic achievement, and I can appreciate his desire to bring beauty into his life (if not our neighborhood).
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Quelle heure est-il? (and other ways to tell time)

by adminMarch 30, 2009
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That’s French for “What time is it?” With the product that just came across my desk though, my answer is, “Who cares?” Or even better, “I have no clue.” It’s a day clock. (See picture)

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The Spirit in the Sky

by adminMarch 30, 2009
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Since it’s almost been exactly two months since my last blog post, I guess it’s time to make good on my promise about my follow up to sense of place…and that would be SPIRIT OF PLACE, which might be more relevant to log home lovers because it tends to relate more to rural, unspoiled land. [...]

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Sense of Place

by adminMarch 30, 2009
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I love this idea. Sense of place. It’s about how we relate to the space around us…our emotional ties to the land or a community or a childhood home or even a hill we sledded down every winter. According to all-knowing wikipedia, sense of place is “those characteristics that make a place special or unique, [...]

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