Budget Minded Modernist
Things are really moving along….The metal sheets are due to arrive today and beacuse of the prepping done during these past 2 weeks, the transformation will be instantaneous. I hope by this time next week I’ll have photos of a metal house to show you!
I MUST share this post which can only be described as bizarre, hilarious, and in my particular case…..a wee bit thrilling. If you don’t know why, and are concerned for my sanity…go here. Those Badder Homes and Gardens gals have me on the floor laughing again.
I have to add a new category to accompany my Avian Obsession…Fawn Love. Our first spring in the new house has brought us a special friend….a fawn. We are captivated and thrilled every time we see it….the first day it crossed through the yard it looked like it could barely walk!
Coming from the postage stamp sized yard in the city to the wildlife magnet has been a big shift with a few challenges….but the good outweighs the bad by miles. Seeing this fawn every few days makes me forget all about tree rats eating my house and the foundation destabilizing rodent problems.
While perusing this post at Design Milk, (via this post at Inhabitots), I started to realize how incredibly unfair it was to parents that modern dollhouses are so ridiculously expensive. The Modularean House featured on these posts isn’t even available to the public…so even if you’ve got the dough…no go. The closest thing I found to the “not available” dollhouse was the “Villa Sibi“…for a mere $850. Puh-leeze!
I’m obviously a design for the masses kinda gal, and this is a perfect example of modern design elitism that drives me nuts….and makes me determined to search for something similar for budding modernists without the Gucci pricetag.
Sadly, I came up with only a few well priced ones….at the bottom of the page…but I came to the conclusion that some of these designs are simple in form and would make an unbelievable DIY. I’d like to make my own Farnsworth inspired house…just for me! If this lady on AT can do it…why can’t we? SHE has mini Jean Prouve chairs….wow.
Plan Toys and HaPe have come through the most. They have some cute and creative options..(love the solar panels on the green house). The Small Paul Julius is great simply because it’s not a unitasker…it’s also a stool! I think the idea is catching on…but, as you can see from the pricing of the top ones…we’re not quite there yet.
I just happened to see the Costco, yes, Costco, bath series they’ve been touting and while I love the double vanity..the price is on par with any other big box with weeks to wait for delivery. Their version of the Decolav wall cabinet however seems worth a second look. I’ve seen the Decolav range in price from $580-$805. The Costco version is $280. So who knew you could buy a gallon of pancake syrup and and your bathroom cabinet in one place? Craaaazy…
Since we’ll be waiting another 2 weeks for the correct siding to arrive, we figured we now had the time to address that which lives under the deck. I’m talking about Phil, (or Phillipa), the groundhog who has burrowed under the foundation of our house. See, it wouldn’t be enough to have JUST a squirrel problem. This house had been hosting a woodland menagerie of critters before we arrived to take it back. Chipmunks and Rat Snakes are also part of what we lovingly call home. Call me Snow freaking White.
Back to Phil/lipa…the main entry and exit seems to be from under the deck and there was no way of filling up the lair without pulling off the whole deck. The decks have to come off when the siding goes on anyway, sooooo….now’s the time. Rather than wait for the crew to do it, we decided to get started to get a better look….strangely the hole seems undisturbed, but it’s been spotted looking leaner than in the fall, so definitely still in residence. Our fear is sealing it in…so we’ll fill this hole with concrete and then wait a few days before we fill the other one at the front of the house. We tried trapping it in vain this fall… completely ignored all lures and temptations. Taking away the burrow seems to be the only way. Sorry Phil/lipa, you’ll have to build new crib somewhere else.
