I was sitting on my kids’ swing set in the backyard and couldn’t resist capturing this stereotypical suburban scene.
We just back from Home Depot, Target and Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Our Subaru wagon was half unloaded.
The snow blower was running (to empty the fuel tank for storage).
My five-year-old son Julian did this driveway chalk drawing in about five minutes.
I took the picture from our deck for a perpendicular, top-down view.
In case you can’t tell, it’s a house with a steeple, sun shining, a pink “box tree”, an underground house and a water pipe traveling through the tree to the main house.… Read the rest
The “Man Cave”.Marketers objectify it endlessly.
Has the man cave jumped the shark?
Adam Tschorn thinks so and explains in the LA Times:
… Read the restThe spirit of the man cave has been co-opted by so many marketers hawking grill tools, barware and even neon lights in the shape of the words “man cave” (in case it needs to be spelled out for the fairer sex, one presumes) that if we don’t roll a boulder to block the mouth of the cave now, the strip-mining will continue unabated until Hallmark rolls out a line of man cave cards (“Greetings from the grotto!”)
“In all phases of my work I was conscious of the need for balance, and I did my best to find balance in both the long and the short view. Broadly I think I can say that I applied the principles of balance in design, in business and in the pleasures I enjoyed.”
Those were the words of legendary yacht designer Olin Stephens, from the final paragraph of his autobiography.… Read the rest
Since we moved five years ago into our 1920s Dutch-colonial house, we’d been dining on the same small cherry-wood pedestal table from our Brooklyn brownstone. It enabled great meals and remains an awesome table (and it’s for sale if you’d like to buy it).… Read the rest
