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JenTrip The Journeys of a Brooklyn Designer |
....who is Jen anyway? |
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 I love to organize. I hate to clean. Thursday, April 03, 2003 In times like these I leave the house so rarely. I am working five days a week now, which in this business is a-plenty. In our house the time I spend here is focused on America’s Funniest Home Videos and home improvement plans. I would like to note that the Home Depot floor paint that we carefully chose a custom color for (lovely plum) has worn almost completely off in high traffic areas in our home. Granted, we have concrete floors but the guy said this was the paint for it. There was a stronger paint, but we couldn’t customize the colors for it. It is basically garage paint. We only painted two summers ago. It looked so beautiful, really. Now it looks so crappy. We found two really cool rattan 50’s barstools at the crummiest of thrift stores around the corner from our house. They had the nerve to act annoyed when we tried to haggle a little on the price. My folks after thirty years of dealing in antiques and collectibles – think someone is stupid if the don’t try to haggle. They are so nice, though that we bought them even with the slim $5 discount. I have come to the design conclusion though (these barstools excluded) that I do not like barstools without backs. Unfortunately backless ones seem easier to design – but as a bar owner you are not encouraging anyone to stay a while with no backs to lean on. Think about it. It’s pretty dumb, really. The only time you want to use backless ones is in a coffee house where you want people to make their purchase and get the hell out so that someone else can sit there and make another purchase. Finally, after several weeks of searching “eames credenza” in the New York area we found a Danish modern credenza in someone’s garbage in Ft Greene. After living loft life for so much of my adult life now I have become just a little obsessed with hiding all my crap. We don’t have any closets, so drawers and cupboards are a pretty hot commodity; especially if you are a pac-rat like me. In fact, I am so much of a pac-rat that I have been thinking of opening a little vintage/design store as a stepping-stone to opening a bar. That is, if I could find a cheap little spot. There is a new scheme every week. It’s quite simply the how-to-make-money-without-working-for-anyone-else-scheme. I’ll let ya know if I come up with anything good. For now I’m off to rip some mp3’s for d.jane.run tonight… |
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