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June 01, 2004

Crosseyed and Pane Mess.

As I've been organizing our stuff, hanging blinds, shades and pictures, it's starting to look like the previous tenant was crosseyed, had one leg longer than the other, or simply walked around with only one platform shoe.

You see, nearly every "right angle" in our apartment isn't even close to being square. The windows, the closets, the bathroom, the kitchen...everything is slightly off. So what do you do?

If you start to make everything square then the apartment looks more off than it really is. So I've gone with the old high school math test results rule:

If you start out with a incorrect given, but follow through your math with the right methodology, the result is kinda right. So minus 6 instead of 10 points.

Everything in the apartment will be a bit off, but if you take of one shoe, it looks totally awesome.

*Bonus points if you know the title reference without looking it up.


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Oye. That's super annoying. But in the spirit of making lemonade out of lemons, try working with it to create a hip, post-modern interior design that bucks the oppresive design-fascist dictums of right angles.

Or you could try tearing the whole place down and rebuilding it. This has the added benefit of being insane.

Posted by: alex at June 2, 2004 11:54 AM

if i were you, i'd pop a pill or grab some herb from m'man down the street, and than chill out, looking at the non-right angles and talk to the walls, who must have a whole lot to tell, given their leanings.

Posted by: ken at June 2, 2004 12:58 PM

I noticed that crooked closet thing (for hanging things - does it have a name?) when we were moving you in. But I didn't say anything because you had enough stress.

Posted by: robin at June 7, 2004 05:19 PM

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