Comments on: Kitchen progress is slow but sure

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:18:44 +0000

It is jury-rigged — there was a sidebar in Blueprint about that this month. Jerry-rigged is when something is shoddy, jury-rigged is when the best is made of what you have.

I know it’s insane, but I’m planning on staying up all night to read HP…thus the life of a new parent…priorities. It was sleep, now it’s Harry Potter? When did this happen?

By: otter

otter — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:01:47 +0000

Hey, we’re redoing our kitchen too! Except the term “shoestring” is a bit too robust to describe our budget. (Bologna string?)

I’ve also started sewing another #@$% dress and I’m already stuck. Post forthcoming on both topics sometime in the next fortnight or so :~)

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:40:44 +0000

So, I don’t know… On the one hand I’m excited for you and on the other I’m like: they just had a baby and now they’re creating this fabulous kitchen and I’m, uh… Yep- Still doing absolutely nothing interesting or productive. The comparison is freaking me out.

Really though I’m totally impressed!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:17:35 +0000

Nice fridge! Jealous? Me? I just keep clinking my glass into the blank door of our fridge, hoping that the icemaker will hear my call and migrate upward.

By: your neighborhood librarian

your neighborhood librarian — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:33:41 +0000

Oh my god mb how come he’s so good at this? You guys blithely decide ‘hey let’s reno the kitchen’ and like a minute later you have new counters and a sink! Christ it takes us 7 contractor visits and a bank loan and a year (so far) and I still have the same kitchen.

Does Iain do this for a living and if so can we hire him? I will snag you special library-only Harry Potter merch if it helps my case.