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California Cottages
Jason and Jenny are in town! On Sunday we gave them a representative tour of the neighborhood that began with Timeless (coffee, pierced hipsters) and ended at an estate sale in Piedmont (voyeurism, dying artists). We arrived within the last two hours of the last day, so it was mostly slim pickings of nondescript enamelware, crumpled dinner jackets, doodads without charm. :(
LUCKILY though (and there is always unexpected luck at estate sales), there were piles of architecture and design reference books in a back room. The manager had the gall to try to charge me $5 each for nine hardcovers. In my head I was like -- bitch are you nuts it’s the end of the day and these wouldn’t sell for more than a dollar elsewhere! I reduced my haul to six and told her all we had was $6.55 in cash.
"That's all you can come up with across the four of you?" she scolded.
"We're crappy millennials who don't carry cash.” I replied, not lying.
“Really,” she muttered. And then after a beat, “Ok, give me what you got.”
California Cottages was one of the books. It was published in 1996, when decadent French Country formed a base for everything (much like Midcentury Modern does today). But many examples were actually more free and natural, which I liked:
The book’s introduction offered some nice words about how people could achieve such loveliness:
“One note design, or decor that looks as if it all arrived on a truck on the same day, are not concepts I admire or encourage, and they are not found in these pages. It takes confidence to make a personal room for day to day events and reject design by rote.”
“The approaches to renovation that worked best were referential — and somewhat reverential. If a house was changed drastically, it was to take it back to when it had been its best. The plan was to give it integrity, structure, and form, never to ‘modernize.’”
...and how those people might justify such a navel-gazing hobby:
“I grew up in New Zealand and have roamed the world ever since, so I hold great affection for those who make building and designing a house a kind of exploration — of the world and of themselves.”
“The most individual and memorable houses are produced by people with singular tastes and unerring devotion to their own truth.”
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Not surprisingly
The realtor whose tagline was “Because people live in houses” was useless...
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The Chickens
Despite our best efforts to make the nesting boxes hospitable, the chickens are laying their eggs on the floor of the coop. They line up in the morning like a family of five waiting for a single toilet. First Harriet, then Paloma, then Domino, then Bertha-the-Terror, then Little Red, all in one corner within a shallow depression in the rye straw. Liza is not laying yet, but she spends her afternoons flapping around in fear of her own shadow so I wonder if she is a dud.
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Visual thoughts for 2015
Stuff from my Instagram, September 2014-present:
Stuff from my Pinterest, September 2014-present:
I'll have thoughts on this later.
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