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Ok, so here’s the tile selection so far:

So, now the drama is the floor tiles. Grey? (to match the vanity?) or black? (too dark) – white – too bright! What? ideas? Help! The other issue is what’s available. Everything is these earthy (NON-50’s) tones that are NOT us. Frankly anything esle is really hard to [...]

Ok, so I may take flack, but yes, we’re taking down the pink plastic tiles in the bathroom, too many are missing or broken and so we’re replacing it all with square black tile. Here’s what we’re planning for a vanity (to the right).
Then we’re going to inset some glass tiles in a stripe around [...]

Got this little tidbit from Project Rungay. Apparently Sal isn’t coming back. According to Matthew Weiner,
“We don’t murder people on our show, but for there to be any stakes, there have to be consequences …  But I felt it was an expression of the times that he couldn’t work there anymore. It’s the ultimate case [...]

We’re in the throws of planning a trip to New Mexico over spring break – mainly to see the Trinity Site (which is only open 2x a year). So, we’ll be staying in Socorro and Santa Fe. I already have a cool Mid Century Motel booked in Alamogordo – anyone have suggestions for Socorro and/or [...]

January 15, 2010, NEW YORK, NY. FIGMENT, one of Governors Island’s key cultural partners, has joined forces with The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter and the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) to sponsor a competition to design and construct an architectural pavilion for [...]

Well it seems life has dealt us a card and we’re going to remodel our PINK bathroom in the next month. We know the tile has been falling off the shower wall for a while, but finally our plumber has determined that the plumbing for the whole shower has to go. So, it’s a rip [...]

For those of you who don’t read my other blog, my “word of the year” this year is “Focus”. One of the things I want to focus on is fixing the things we have. So, I got the great idea to make a list here and see how many we accomplish:

Fix the plumbing in both [...]

I hope all of you have a wonderful Holiday! We’re looking forward to a fabulous 2010!

Oooo, aren’t these yummy? However, I really need to pass along to the Rejuvenation folks that I need 50’s vinage OUTDOOR lighting and not just the jelly glass kind!
Help!
Are you all getting ready for a fabulous vintage Holiday? We have a lovely snow falling here and I can’t wait!

Another year is almost over. How did we, architects, do in the last decade? Did we accomplish our objectives? Did we give anything back to the society? Or did we all get sucked up in the “system”? Here is a link from Los Angeles Times written by architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne. I found it quite [...]