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Temptation Row
Aug. 27th, 2005 11:53 pmWhen we were still planning to move up here, and were targeting Catonsville as where we hoped to settle, we talked to people who had already lived up here. Among them, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
the_curmudgn's spousal unit. She mentioned a strip of stores that they refer to as Temptation Row, which included a yarn shop. Well, we ran across that today. Yarn shop, quilt shop, needlework shop, and what's more, stuff that curmudgn and L wouldn't necessarily have noticed: Baltimore Brass, a band instrument store run by the tuba player for the Baltimore Symphony, for example. And next to that, a furniture store specializing in 50's retro. Since the house we are buying is a 1958 ranch house, it needs a bit of retro. While some stuff from the 50's is hideous (and we both grew up in households that owned some of the hideous stuff; my dad had a turquoise vinyl textured armless fake Danish Modern sofa that I still shudder thinking about) some of it is nice, and there's a couple pieces in there we will go back and try to get if they're still there in a month, when we have the house and know how much space we have.
One piece I really liked is an enormous desk/work table. It's a large desk with drawers and a small hutch with pigeonholes and doors and shelves, but the hutch is on hinges, and flips over to the back to form part of the surface, making it a very large table. I have no idea where we'd put such a thing, unless we replaced the dining table entirely. However, there's another piece, a "Desk in a box" that is similarly clever, folding and hinges and stuff, that we could definitely find room for. There's also a nice streamlined "Modern" china cabinet, which we could use to replace the cheapo mass-produced white country-style absolutely generic china cabinet we've had for years. It's worked for years, but it is such a, a, a stereotyped cutesy cabinet! A used 50's original in medium cherry with chrome fittings, now, that would be something.
Dreams. Still quite a bit of work to do before then.
Hair is cut. That helps. I was beginning to look like some of the more peculiar avatars people have with hair going in all directions.
I do believe ragweed is coming. Achoo and all that.
Incidentally, the high here today was 75.
the_curmudgn's spousal unit. She mentioned a strip of stores that they refer to as Temptation Row, which included a yarn shop. Well, we ran across that today. Yarn shop, quilt shop, needlework shop, and what's more, stuff that curmudgn and L wouldn't necessarily have noticed: Baltimore Brass, a band instrument store run by the tuba player for the Baltimore Symphony, for example. And next to that, a furniture store specializing in 50's retro. Since the house we are buying is a 1958 ranch house, it needs a bit of retro. While some stuff from the 50's is hideous (and we both grew up in households that owned some of the hideous stuff; my dad had a turquoise vinyl textured armless fake Danish Modern sofa that I still shudder thinking about) some of it is nice, and there's a couple pieces in there we will go back and try to get if they're still there in a month, when we have the house and know how much space we have.One piece I really liked is an enormous desk/work table. It's a large desk with drawers and a small hutch with pigeonholes and doors and shelves, but the hutch is on hinges, and flips over to the back to form part of the surface, making it a very large table. I have no idea where we'd put such a thing, unless we replaced the dining table entirely. However, there's another piece, a "Desk in a box" that is similarly clever, folding and hinges and stuff, that we could definitely find room for. There's also a nice streamlined "Modern" china cabinet, which we could use to replace the cheapo mass-produced white country-style absolutely generic china cabinet we've had for years. It's worked for years, but it is such a, a, a stereotyped cutesy cabinet! A used 50's original in medium cherry with chrome fittings, now, that would be something.
Dreams. Still quite a bit of work to do before then.
Hair is cut. That helps. I was beginning to look like some of the more peculiar avatars people have with hair going in all directions.
I do believe ragweed is coming. Achoo and all that.
Incidentally, the high here today was 75.
