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Phren-Shui
Ghosts in the furniture
Same way Theo says there can be ghosts in your vintage sweater, there can be ghosts in that vintage chair too. Thankfully, my grandmother used plastic slipcovers. All those hysterical family gatherings, the sturm und drang and spilled tomato juice never made it into the jade-green colored silk. So whomever got that amazing sofa at the Goodwill is probably blissfully ignorant of how crazy things got in North Bergen, NJ.
A video by the Adventuress, who writes for Domino (the shelter mag for the homey hip), talks about how she feng shui'd her house with the help of an expert. She calls it "the new couples therapy," but as she talked about the left corner, the right corner, and the money parts and the love parts, I realized that feng shui may be more of our own generation's version of the Victorian notion of phrenology. It may also be something people swear by, but those Victorians had their own tried and trues.
The weeks leading into a home renovation, if you're part of the population lucky enough to be able to undergo one, are like a honeymoon with you and your domestic dreams. Then, reality sets in like drywall dust. No links here, kids. Just promises of dust to come from the home office.
Speaking of the home office, Videojug is getting good, though it looks like its skewing younger and younger (with videos on masturbation, catching your boyfriend cheating using CSI techniques, and conspiracy theories along with "how to make garlic mashed potatoes," "how to tie a full windsor knot," and "how to make a summer garden"). But there's a great video on how to take old CD's and turn them into a disco ball. Very very terrific. Catch it before it disappears into the video cybermiasma and we forget about it.
Jana Martin is the MOLI View's Design Contributor. Her blog, Making Room, will run every Wednesday.
A video by the Adventuress, who writes for Domino (the shelter mag for the homey hip), talks about how she feng shui'd her house with the help of an expert. She calls it "the new couples therapy," but as she talked about the left corner, the right corner, and the money parts and the love parts, I realized that feng shui may be more of our own generation's version of the Victorian notion of phrenology. It may also be something people swear by, but those Victorians had their own tried and trues.
The weeks leading into a home renovation, if you're part of the population lucky enough to be able to undergo one, are like a honeymoon with you and your domestic dreams. Then, reality sets in like drywall dust. No links here, kids. Just promises of dust to come from the home office.
Speaking of the home office, Videojug is getting good, though it looks like its skewing younger and younger (with videos on masturbation, catching your boyfriend cheating using CSI techniques, and conspiracy theories along with "how to make garlic mashed potatoes," "how to tie a full windsor knot," and "how to make a summer garden"). But there's a great video on how to take old CD's and turn them into a disco ball. Very very terrific. Catch it before it disappears into the video cybermiasma and we forget about it.
Jana Martin is the MOLI View's Design Contributor. Her blog, Making Room, will run every Wednesday.
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