Misadventures in Upcycling and Repurposing Furniture
My Misadventures in Upcycling and Repurposing
The idea of a personal legacy is a fascinating notion. As a consolation for our mortality, legacy provides a mollifying effect; lessening the fear of that inevitable moment when we cease to have direct impact on the world we seek so desperately to shape. It exists as an extension of the ego, driving our actions to leave behind … Continue reading The Over/Under, Part 1
I am a collector, you see. In the post-WebMD/Dr. Oz/Dr. Phil world we inhabit, it has become all too common for the lay person to scour the internet, frenetically hunting down tenuous threads of commonality in symptoms or behaviors and performing often erroneous feats of self-diagnosis. Armed with a bare minimum of information, we bandy about … Continue reading Atlantic Media Rack
Clifford D. Simak once opined “Time is the simplest thing”. In the context of human experience, he may be correct. All things that fall within our understanding are subject to the passage of time. It haunts us in its relentless and unstoppable nature. We wax poetic about this when we coin phrases such as the “mercies … Continue reading End Table Behind the Dumpster
As the unrelenting march of time turns day into night and back again into day, weeks slip by never to be recovered and what seemed like a period of time unfathomable suddenly becomes a period of time past. We are faced with an act of renewal–either a renewal of the known, to accept the status … Continue reading Smoker’s Rescue Bookcase
Dear Reader, Now that I have posted a few entries I feel that it is time to recap some of the more important aspects of this catharsis. First, I am an unrelenting cheapskate. Okay. That’s not entirely fair. I am peculiarly frugal. Peculiar in that I will buy things with wanton abandon, but only if … Continue reading IKEA Hyllis Shelves
I don’t believe anyone who truly knows me would be surprised to hear me say that my grandmother may be my favorite human being in the world. That being said, we have surprisingly little in common. She prays for my immortal soul; I spent years trying to subtly encourage her to listen to punk rock. … Continue reading Trash Pile Bookcase
There once was a man whose need for furniture far outweighed his means to procure such commodities. Not one to be easily daunted by these circumstances, he turned to a questionable, yet occasionally lucrative source: the Free Stuff ads on Craigslist. Having become thoroughly engrossed, enthralled and enraptured with the cornucopia of discarded miscellany at … Continue reading Mid Century Stereo Console
Several apartments ago, we (like many modern families) outfitted the kids’ room on the cheap with some shelves from IKEA. Nothing fancy or original, we went with the ubiquitous cube shelves that you find in frugal homes around the world. Standing vertically, astride a beat-up bookshelf-turned-television-stand, these bastions of cost efficiency became home to all … Continue reading IKEA Bitrade 2×4
