Post-Move More

AAaaaannnddD: here are the final pictures of the apartment you will see.
This is the upstairs.

There's one corner where I will do art--the orange cabinets are pretty stuffed with materials already. Can't. Find. Anything.

We've put the extra books on the beams, which are charming until you've bonked your head on them four five times--but there's a reasonably quick learning curve with that.



To the left is the wall that once had the Island Scene on it, remarkable for its inability to make us feel transported to the Caribbean. Stuart wanted to keep it. I remember having a similar affection for photo-wallpaper when I was a child in the seventies. I wallpapered it red, instead.
You can see the living room now at the bottom of this blog.

Under the camel painting are the stairs that lead up here.

So, that's our new place. Any questions?

Bedrooms in the New Apartment

Here is my much smaller bedroom. It is damson plum-colored, with curtains that combine English Arts and Crafts with Carnaby Street. I love these curtains. They shield my view to the parking lot below.

Interesting fact: there are Digimon stickers half-scraped off on the back of the door.

What you can barely see is a collection of chip-carved wooden objects from Friesland. The images are amazing on these pieces and go way back: basically they are sacred geometry in wood. Still done up to the mid-20th Century in northwestern Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, and undergoing a comeback among carving-hobbyists.

I'm sorry to have exposed the Girl for the creature she truly is, but at least she is in good company. I mean: the mess. Actually, the photo is so dark that The Mess cannot really be discerned. The romantic disarray of the bed could have actually been planned. The window wall is painted 'Moroccan Mint.'

What appears to be a random grouping of papers, garbage, school bags, rumpled beds and abandoned clothing is actually a complicated code that is understood only by groups of related boys who attempt to territorialize their surroundings. Scientists are only now piecing together the subtleties of this little-understood method of mark-making...