Search Results for: label/book%20reviews/2010/06/the-urban-homestead/2011/04/making-it

1100 results

Why Architectural Graphics Standards Should Be On Your Bookshelf

Avatar photo
Design
9 Comments
...ng tome called Architectural Graphics Standards should be on every DIYer’s bookshelf. It’s remarkable how much just a half inch can make a seat or table uncomfortable. That we’re a freakishly tall household contributes to the problem. Thumbing through Architectural Graphics Standards, I was able to diagnose the issues in our breakfast nook. The bench is too narrow and the cushions too high. I’m going to spend today correcting those problems. There...

Read…

In Praise of Backward Compatibility

Avatar photo
Appropriate Technology
9 Comments
The garden of nerdiness has many flowers: comic book nerds, computer nerds, fantasy nerds, sci-fi nerds–too many to list. After fifty years I’ve finally recognized my own personal nerd category. I’m an electromechanical nerd. This tendency manifests in an obsession with old telephones, the ability to thread a 16mm projector, fantasizing about the mimeographed version of Root Simple and spending evenings watching films about old office equipment....

Read…

Coffee and Tahini Date Balls

Avatar photo
Recipes
4 Comments
...a well as a sugar buzz! The recipe: This recipe is adapted from the great book, Pomegranates and Pine Nuts. Makes about 12, depending on the size of the dates, and the size of the balls Ingredients: 12 pitted dates 2 Tablespoons of tahini paste Toppings for coating the balls, which may include: fresh ground espresso, ground cacao nibs, ground chocolate, cocoa powder, toasted sesame seeds, poppy seeds, ground nuts of all sorts, coconut flakes…and...

Read…

Our Week in Pictures

Avatar photo
Design, Thoughtstylings
27 Comments
...ahs and a reclined posture on a couch, I instead find myself at the Glendale Home Depot which features this statue of a hot dog applying ketchup and mustard to itself: If we were still in the 1990s I’d be tempted to write a whole book written in obtuse, post modern theory-speak on the recursive nightmare that is this hot dog statute but I’ve got contractors to juggle and more unfashionable furniture to build. What projects are you tackling this sp...

Read…