{"id":86,"date":"2010-04-23T21:59:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T01:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.promiscuousassemblage.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-04-21T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:21:12","slug":"mrs-klein-found-herself-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/mrs-klein-found-herself-a-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Mrs. Klein Found Herself a House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_01731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"img_01731\" src=\"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/img_01731-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;\">After years of fits and starts I have found a wonderful new house which meets all my requirements. For many a year I searched for a house that was large and roomy, with beautiful details and many fireplaces, plenty of bedrooms, and that was basically left unremuddled (a term I love from The Old House Journal). A house in a state of deshabille, in short, a house that needs a rescue.The kitchen is everything I dreamed of : a mishmash of the past with remnants of the original kitchen, the butler&#8217;s pantry, subway \u00c2\u00a0tiles and a white hex tile floors living companionably with cabinets from an indeterminate age, possibly circa Mrs. Cleever.Happily, none of this is worth saving and I feel no compunction about tearing into it with a chain saw and ripping out its guts. Two sun porches, one huge one with the most glorious exposure (Southwest), and a small one off the dining room (Southeast exposure).The latter is begging to be a breakfast room. The kitchen is asking me to break the wall down that separates them and join them together as God intended.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">And there&#8217;s so much more. I can&#8217;t stop thinking about it. If you&#8217;re that kind of person (and you know who you are), a house can be a fury of obsession. \u00c2\u00a0The wonderful Tabula Rasa that invites you in and you listen, and ponder, and seek, and meditate, all until you make your move and seize the day: choose a paint color, consider a lamp, whatever to do with the floors. And it&#8217;s not quite a Tabula Rasa because there is already ones furniture, and books and all those things.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Behold, the object of my affection:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Sleeping Beauty, shrouded in cobwebs, slumbers on.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of fits and starts I have found a wonderful new house which meets all my requirements. For many a year I searched for a house that was large and roomy, with beautiful details and many fireplaces, plenty of bedrooms, and that was basically left unremuddled (a term I love from The Old House [&hellip;]<\/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-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promiscuous-assemblage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promiscuousassemblage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}