Originally Posted by
Jim Koepke
Sadly one thing architects seldom know is how to move furniture or appliances. My family was in furniture and appliance retail. We often felt homes and apartments would be designed very differently if every architect was required to move furniture and appliances for a couple of years.
My favorite was a friend's two-bedroom apartment: living room, kitchen, and half-bath downstairs, bedrooms upstairs.
With a small wrought iron spiral staircase connecting the two. Most of the bedroom furniture had to be hoisted up to the balcony, and of course that meant everything had to be humped the long way around the building from the parking lot. When he moved out, he also had to pay to have the two trees outside trimmed to make room for the extraction.
Yoga class makes me feel like a total stud, mostly because I'm about as flexible as a 2x4.
"Design"? Possibly. "Intelligent"? Sure doesn't look like it from this angle.
We used to be hunter gatherers. Now we're shopper borrowers.
The three most important words in the English language: "Front Towards Enemy".
The world makes a lot more sense when you remember that Butthead was the smart one.
You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much ammo.
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