Nice Things

Once I Own My Own Home and Have Tons of Money to Spend on Upgrading it, I Plan to Use Some of the Following Services and / or Buy Some of the Following Items:

http://www.ironagegrates.com/ - custom metalwork made in the U.S.A.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672086/how-your-chair-changes-your-mindset - a fancy new chair

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/zaha-hadid-shop-in-shop-concept-for-neil-barrett/ - some awesome clothes hangers

http://www.designboom.com/architecture/guzman-de-yarza-blache-elevated-sports-court-in-zaragoza/ - a basketball court with some serious style

http://www.woohome.com/technology/building-a-inflatable-concrete-tent - a concrete tent to go on my grounds

http://www.designboom.com/readers/boo-an-interactive-zen-garden-by-studio-roosegaarde/ - a zen garden

http://www.casasugar.com/Affordable-Birdcage-28307743 - a fancy birdcage with a sculpture or plants inside, birds are noisy creatures

and, finally

http://slidingdrawersblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/home-dressing.html - big ol' maps on the walls

Fans

One month from today on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the Summer Solstice will occur.  If you don't have a plan to beat the heat yet, now seems like a good time to think about doing so.

My initial though is to hire women to fan me while wearing swim suits but, unfortunately, this is not practical from a financial point of view.

Air conditioning is cool (hilarious, right!?!) but it takes a lot of energy and energy is expensive in California.

Fans are a really good solution to managing high temperatures.  I've spent hours with my nose in home furnishing magazines recently and it seems that big faced silver/ nickel colored metal fans enclosed in matching metal wire enclosures seem to be popular these days.

If you could find such a fan with working motor, you could build your own stand for it to make a fancy floor fan. 

Here is an example of the type of fan I'm talking about, which happens to be done in brass instead of nickel/ silver:

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Also, birdcages seem  to take up a lot of background space in home furnishing publications.

This post sort of relates to an earlier post about clocks, which can be viewed online here.