Thoughts on homes and minimalism
Reading February’s edition of English Homes, I found a wonderful quote by an interior designer called Mark Wilkinson, which articulately encapsulates many of my feelings about the way I choose to decorate and organise my home: “Minimalism is a kind of emotional bankruptcy … a refuge for those who do not understand the grammar of [...]
Filling the Void…
Since my hands are a little tied with the actual decoration of the house (on account of small things like building and demolition) I have been fiddling with small, pretty things… My kitchen table and chairs arrived the other week. That is to say, being strictly accurate, that my table arrived, along with some sticks [...]
Bathroom: Installation in progress….
The chap from building control arrived this morning, to get to grips with the drainage situation for the new bathroom. It got a little complicated when we discovered a second drain hidden under the flagstones (bad, bad previous owners!) and this is the current state of my rear courtyard. Touch wood, it will be all [...]
Bathroom: Days 2,3 and 4
It is, of course, utterly impossible that anything can go smoothly. In my life, things just don’t. They bump along, getting caught in jams and pickles, scraping their knees and courting disaster at every turn. This is nothing new, but simply one more thing to accept with a hidden grimace, whilst fervently praying under your [...]
Bathroom: Day 1
Well the builders are here, they are lifting carpets, and hammering the hell out of various stud walls, to work out where various pipes go and whether they’re needed … so I’m letting them get on with it. The good news is that we’ve discovered original floorboards under the (soon to be) bathroom, so the [...]
Love and Freedom in a Little City
I’ve been trying to find a coherent way of writing this blog for a while. I have been thinking swirling abstract thoughts about it for a while, in an effort to explain what made me up sticks and move to a place where I don’t have a job, I don’t know anyone and I don’t [...]
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