I'll pull out the good Eva Zeisel tableware for you, Cap!

Oliver's building is beautiful.  However, it's charm is slightly marred by the fact that there's not something a little cooler than a Relax The Back franchise on the street level.  I envision a nice deli or coffee bar, or maybe Oliver's future haberdashery with beautiful classic menswear bulging out of the doors.  But a Relax The Back?

I lived in the oldest continually occupied bungalow/ detached (for you foreigners) in Darwin and it dated from 1938/39.  It was designed and built to British pre-Second World War Colonial Government building code and was a solid as a brick shithouse.  It was on RAAF Base Darwin and  survived the Bombing of Darwin in 1942 by the Japanese by the same aircraft group that hit Pearl Harbour who dropped twice as many bombs as at Pearl.  It survived Cyclone Tracy in 1974 which destroyed 95% of Darwin. It had teak floor beams and walls trusses with jarra flooring.  Loved it.

I live in a 20 year old condominium in a two block stretch of street that was designed to look like a Parisian boulevard circa Hausmann, with varying degrees of success. It's surprisingly picturesque, and absurdly well-made, particularly given the kind of trash that's going up in Toronto on a weekly basis nowadays. But, honestly, the real reason I purchased it was that it was:

a) better value than living in the CBD, though a 10 minute subway ride away
b) also a 15 minute walk away from where I grew up, and my family

The inside is nice, from a fit and finish point of view. The furnishings leave much to be desired - I bought ALL of the furniture in my condo for $1000 from the Kazakh woman who lived there prior and seemed eager to skip town. One day, I'd like to devote myself to a more beautiful living space. But, I'm a workaholic, and I try to be social to the point that I don't spend much time there at all, and much of the time I do spend, I'm asleep. In short, I need to stop buying clothes, or to get married. At this point, both seem equally unlikely.

Last edited by mhalat (2019-12-20 09:42:28)

Great that Woof. Has a bit of an Arts and crafts style to it as well.