{"id":179,"date":"2010-05-14T14:41:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T18:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promiscuousassemblage.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:38:11","slug":"indoor-plumbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/indoor-plumbing\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Plumbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, on a beautiful spring day I visited Walter Parker at his shop in a converted schoolhouse in Dudley, Mass.\u00c2\u00a0 Walter is a prodigious enthusiast, plumber, and collector extraordinaire of old plumbing fixtures.\u00c2\u00a0 A visit extended itself into a three hour show and tell and tutorial on his fixtures in his shop, which included every kind of sink, toilet, faucet, shower, towel rods, and gas stoves. We clambered up to an attic chockablock treasures and into dark crawl spaces, all filled to the gills with tempting stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 I asked him about finding some fittings for my kitchen sink-I have in mind a faucet, a filtered water tap and also a spray and he conjured up a variety of magical old faucets that could be customized and adapted to the various uses.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance for the spray he produced a lovely curved neck faucet and then found an original piece of black rubber hose and a selection of exquisite old spray nozzles.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One to be converted to spraying, the other for filtered water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also fell in love with a\u00c2\u00a0 1920’s sink and toilet colored in what he called “Ming” green, a perfect cloudy green forming a sort of demi-parure.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love to use them for the bathroom we’re constructing between my childrens’ two bedrooms.\u00c2\u00a0 The sink even has the original Ming green faucets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Demi Parure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was an intriguing wood and galvanized metal garden sink that I thought could work for the laundry room and also a selection of inexpensive marble topped sinks to set upon another vast collection of decorative sink brackets.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rare Rib Cage Shower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then, on the dearer side, are the major pieces, possible thoughts for the master bath, and and all too possibly only in my <\/span>dreams.\"\"<\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, on a beautiful spring day I visited Walter Parker at his shop in a converted schoolhouse in Dudley, Mass.\u00c2\u00a0 Walter is a prodigious enthusiast, plumber, and collector extraordinaire of old plumbing fixtures.\u00c2\u00a0 A visit extended itself into a three hour show and tell and tutorial on his fixtures in his shop, which included every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promiscuous-assemblage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}