- New releases: Smart Bitches (romance), Book Riot (YA nonfiction/comics, YA, best out this week)
- Linkity from Smart Bitches.
- “Books as a ballast against brainrot“.
- “A guide to caring for each other while changing the world“.
- So many times.
- Free exercise library with a geeky slant.
- 48 zucchini recipes.
- Lovely woodwork.
- Nicely done manor house with a library in the tower.
- Two-house property in Taos.
- Decent condo in a converted cotton mill/factory.
- I’ve walked past this one before.
- Inspired by Japanese teahouses.
- Little Red Caboose – definitely not for the serious chef.
- Pueblo style house with a mystery in the shower.
- Very colorful.
- Unusual layout, plus lots of color and lots of stuff.
- Carpeted basement detracts from its castle-esque vibe.
- If renting’s your thing, how about a land-bound boat?
- Over-the-top Las Vegas home. Figures may or may not be included.
- Overdesigned.
- Why would you turn a pole barn into a house?
- Ridiculous.
- Why.
- Seriously, why.
Harry, looking thoughtful.
Polly, looking like she’s pretending to listen.
I prefer Mexican Grey squash to zucchini. They used to be about $1 cheaper per pound, but the gap is closing.
Lovely Woodwork deserves to be mine. The model who posed for the fireplace embellishment also deserves to be mine. Keene NY, sadly, does not deserve me.
I kept waiting for the the WTFery to start. Aha, says I, surely this caboose will be the end of the good stuff (caboose … end – see what I did there? I crack me up) but it wasn’t that bad.
Most of these are pretty nice, and the ones that fail, usually do so more from the decoration than the buildings, or boats, or cabooses themselves. Usually.
As for the multilevel room, I think it was meant to be a kind of architectural conversation piece. For example:
Person A: Did you see that hideous “multilevel” room in Jerry’s
house?
Person B: Yeah. It looks like he’s been mixing his bathtub gin with thrift shop acid again.
Person C: It’s so stupid, and ugly, and useless, and such a total waste of space, that if it were a person instead of a room, it would be DJT.