This is me pretending to be a designer after one of those gazillion trips to the tile store mentioned below. I needed to have everything figured out in advance before I said yes to one thing, so that when it was time to choose tile for the showers- for ex, I also needed paint color, flooring material, & sinks and faucets at least somewhat pulled together within my imagination. For a while, the surfaces of the tables in my apartment were covered with paint chips, tile, wallpaper samples, and bamboo. I loved this game of pretend...
After six-plus months of looking for a house that I could make a home, I found this one posted on Craigslist. The house needed love. I needed a project. A relationship was born. Here, I document the material, creative, and psychological progress- or lack thereof, as well as the metaphorical journey of trying to create some sense of "home,"-- a word which I have yet to fully understand. The story begins with the background posts, published in May 2010.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Pretending
This is me pretending to be a designer after one of those gazillion trips to the tile store mentioned below. I needed to have everything figured out in advance before I said yes to one thing, so that when it was time to choose tile for the showers- for ex, I also needed paint color, flooring material, & sinks and faucets at least somewhat pulled together within my imagination. For a while, the surfaces of the tables in my apartment were covered with paint chips, tile, wallpaper samples, and bamboo. I loved this game of pretend...
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