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It started with the chairs. In early July, the AIDSWalk committee convinced a few furniture dealers to donate four chairs for a fundraising raffle. Mind you, I work at a major international interiors and architecture firm, so we’re not talking a nice armchair for the den–we’re talking two tricked-out office chairs and a set of supercool lounge . . . → Read More: Drastic times, drastic measures: Converting a one-bedroom to a two-bedroom  Sometime in 2004ish, I visited RocketMan in his apartment to find a giant plank of wood: about 2 inches thick, 6 feet long, sturdy but scratched. “What’s that?” “I found it in the garbage room.” “Oh. What’s it for?” “I don’t know. It’s a good piece of wood, though.” “OK.” At that point, he had two chairs that he’d picked up off . . . → Read More: DIY Coffee Table: The beater edition  Now, you may have noticed over the last year or so that while we’re by no means Apartment Therapy-ready, we try to inject a certain aesthetic into our apartment enhancements. The vacuum cleaner lamp sheds a nice light, but we like the way it looks. The bar is cobbled together from a lot of stuff around . . . → Read More: The Rocket Guide to Cheap, Fast, Unattractive Babyproofing  If you’ve been following this blog awhile—we’re talking a year here—you might remember The Deceptachair. It’s a high chair. It’s a chair. It’s a walker. It’s a potty seat. It’s from a company called Storchenmuehle (inventors of the carseat) and we’re pegging it for early-to-mid-70s. The Deceptachair has held up well over time, but 30 years’ . . . → Read More: Deceptachair gets a makeover!  Now that the Agent of Chaos is almost seven months old, we’ve moved into a new phase of baby gear: the not-quite-mobile baby stage. She’s sitting up, she likes assisted standing and bouncing, and she’s able to roll off of parental beds in a single nod of her melon-sized head. She’s outgrown her bouncer (which she . . . → Read More: Product Review: The Pop-a-Tot!  The underside of the bed, plus Dave’s feet. I’d planned on blogging this earlier, but life (specifically, new life) interfered. For going on six months or so, RocketMan had been saying he wanted to build a bed—something with storage underneath. Weeks passed, months passed, and as I neared my due date and mentioned we’d better get . . . → Read More: Just in time for no sleeping, a new bed! 
Before: The Beast We’ve been saying for months that we’d like to get a new television. The idea was purely for upgrade’s sake–our four-year-old JVC 27″ worked just fine. But it weighed in at 40 pounds and measured two feet deep, so abandoning it in favor of a sleeker, thinner model was just too tempting (even . . . → Read More: From CRT to LCD, at last! 
Wine Rack I My second blog, way back, was about our custom-built combo bar, cookbook shelf, and wine rack. (Cocktail Hour, January 15, 2009) The wine rack itself was made of stacked cardboard tubing; it worked well, but didn’t fit bigger Pinot Noir and champagne bottles. An unpredicted drawback was that the space for it was . . . → Read More: DIY Wine Rack II: Taller, Thinner, Less Cardboard  Once again, the Alameda Flea Market came through for us. We headed out yesterday with one goal: find a rocking chair built to the specifications listed in my last rocking chair blog. I sat in about a dozen rocking chairs yesterday (poor me!), and as with any piece of furniture, our primary goal was to strike . . . → Read More: What’s almost as good as midcentury modern? Arts and crafts!  If you remember from way back in January, I started this blog by giving Le Tour Grande of our kitchen—all 7′ by 6′ of it. While everything above the counter was in reasonably good condition (everything organized and more or less reachable), I didn’t get into the details of the below-the-waist goings-on. One particular corner of . . . → Read More: Our $70 Kitchen Renovation |
 
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