Apr
09
it’s hard to do much of anything when you’re disorganized & in a compact space. but putting together our library is a project we want to put lots of love (and, incidentally, money) into. we want it to be the most pleasant environment either of us can imagine working in. that means a walnut worktop along the full length of the wall beneath the big window. among many other things. too expensive for right away. so, either we go without storage until we can afford it, or we put up temporary shelving. we’ve decided to go with temporary shelving, which will be solid wood with slatted shelves. the lower portion will look like panels, but function as cabinet doors to lots of invisible storage. ideally we will install doors over the upper part of the bookcases to keep the dust off of the books. we plan to stain the wood a dark color after putting wood putty into all the pre-drilled holes that won’t be utilized. with books on them, the slatted shelves won’t be very noticeable. and then we can put the library out of our minds for however long we like and we won’t be doing it at the expense of organization.
elevation of each wall
pricing the components
components w/ prices
Posted in furniture, hardware, objects diagram interior layout library office organization plan shelving solutions storage
Nov
13
this is a space-planning sketch for our kitchen. it’s not only quite small, but (and this is our favorite thing) two of the walls are completely covered with windows. that makes minimal room for tall kitchenstuffs, like the fridge or upper cabinets. we also need more counter space than we’ve got now. currently there’s a wall between the kitchen & living room, but in this plan i’ve omitted the wall, since we intend to tear it down. might seem funny that we’re trying to incorporate a washer & dryer into our teeny kitchen, but i enjoy the challenge of fitting our lives into 850 square feet. and if we had to walk outside to do laundry, i’m certain we’d be lazier about doing it.
our 11' x 12' kitchen
Posted in home & garden floor plan kitchen sketch space planning
Sep
07
ottoman/coffee table sketch w/ comments
Posted in home & garden diagram plush sketch storage textiles
May
04
this is a quick sketch of a microwave. i have never owned one i enjoyed looking at, nor seen one i coveted but could not afford. i’ve seen plenty of products with a simplified, round-edged, retro feel, or a stream-lined modern feel, that are nice, but exceptionally expensive. like smeg refrigerators, for instance. adorably vintage, but would consume a disproportionate share of the allotment for a kitchen remodel. so we’re content to conceal the fridge doors of a larger, more practical variety, by adding panels to the front and cabinetry above. microwaves, on the other hand, have controls on the front, and no one seems to be designing them for obscurity. and i don’t like the designs i’ve seen out there. so this sketch is one rendition of the microwave i thought would be more pleasing than the options currently out there.
microwave sketch + colored version
Posted in furniture, hardware, objects diagram kitchen lighting
Jun
19
before we made an offer on the house, we visited a second time and took tons of photos & measurements. this was the first time i drew up the house’s floor plan w/ the measurements on it. i basically made each square = 1 foot. but it was a quick & imprecise drawing, so i ended up with a gap in the drawing that doesn’t exist in the actual floor plan. it wasn’t until later that i drew up the floor plans w/ an architectural scale. but, since this was drawn in the excitement of buying our home, i’m keeping it around for sentimental value more than anything else. :)
house measurements
Posted in home & garden floor plan interior
Aug
11
when we moved out of the loft and into the apartment where we resided for about a year before we bought our house, we hosted a “housewarming” despite it being our apartment. that’s because we put a lot of work into painting, reducing, and organizing our things into an attractive setting, since we were losing ~200 sq. ft moving out of the loft. these were thrown together rather quickly, but both from my own photos. one is a translucent red plastic robot, the other a close shot of wood grain. they combined quite nicely, so that was that and i added text.
4322 party invites
Posted in crafting layout objet d'art typography
Nov
02
these skelly sketches were drawn as part of a practice exercise for a life drawing class. conveniently, around halloween time!
Posted in living forms life living sketch
Oct
29
so here’s a scan of one of the finished products. this is cardstock which underwent 3 printing processes: b/w laser printer, and one stamp each for the two colors, which we applied by hand using a simple cardboard jig for alignment:
we made about 100 of these invitations. there was a wide variety in the accuracy and evenness of application, but we actually liked them imperfect, b/c it left no doubt that they were hand-crafted!
Posted in crafting layout sketch typography
Jan
25
i would sometimes, especially when i was feeling a bit lethargic, uninspired, or outright discouraged, treat myself to a coffee at lost souls cafe, which was downstairs, 6 or 7 floors, from the loft, but connected exclusively through the interior. *read: i could wear my pajamas in there and quickly drift back up to my loft* … so, it’s good coffee, good architecture, and good people (i love those kiddos at lost souls cafe), and i had a drawing assignment. i was able to kill two birds with one stone, by sketching the scene while i fetched myself a coffee for my calculus studies. not the best sketch ever (charcoal is so often very sloppy, crude, bold, lacking nuance—at least when i use it—and this was a quick attempt). but i love that i have an image of this place during that period in my life, interpreted through my eyes and sketching habits of the time.
charcoal, graphite, & chalk; sketch from my end-of-bar seat
Posted in home & garden interior sketch
