Good Art vs. Bad Art

In case you are wondering, life is still on hold because of JAN from the permits office. Last Wednesday, we were told that we were 7th on her list. If she does not process our permits by Friday, she will be working at an average cadence of less than 1 a day. I would be embarrassed if I only produced one task a day. Come on JAN!

Monday started with this posted to our door:

Bad Art

It was a STOP WORK order from an inspector driving by the house.  Michael and I spent all of Monday night cursing this guy before we could call the inspection office and get it figured out Tuesday morning. Turns out, he misunderstood our address and so when he typed it in and did not see anything (including demo permits) he assumed that we were doing non-permitted work because there is a dumpster and storage unit in the driveway. Once we cleared up that he had the address wrong (we are on a corner), he lifted the Stop order. Now if JAN would get her tush in gear, this would all be moot.

Since we can't do much until final permit approval, I have turned my attention to other decorating to-dos. I picked up my house blueprint that I had framed. It looks amazing. I am not sure where it is going to hang once the house is done, but I am sure we will find the right place. I like how the neon watermelon matte peeks out just enough to add some punch.



Good Art- Straight from the year 1964

Last week, we had the rest of the apartment kitchen counters installed. It looks amazing. I was also able to track down the company that made the flooring in the apartment and order a bit more for the kitchen. Good by yellow dirty linoleum! Having the same floors running all the way to the end of the kitchen wall makes the space feel so much larger.



New floors, new counters, new art

We are still waiting for the electrician to come out and install new can lights in the kitchen (good-bye florescent!). We are also still waiting for all the kitchen hardware which is on back order. Hopefully we will have it by next week?!?!?! I was anxious to add art to the kitchen. I had the idea of botanicals on jet black backgrounds. I have seen this before, but it is always really expensive. The apartment is getting the budget renovation so I had to think out side the box. I ended up finding a book on Amazon called "The Art of Instruction: European Educational Posters from the 19th and 20th Century". It included the exact type of images I wanted so I ordered it hoping there would be a few full page images that could be framed.

Turns out, almost every page was frame worthy. I narrowed it down to the two I wanted and used a sharp knife to remove the pages. I did it so carefully that one can barely tell there are pages missing. Now I have two new pieces of art and a cool coffee table book. Despite JAN's efforts to slow me down, I would call this some progress! What do you think?