This is Lucky’s home decor magazine and it applies the same bizarre aesthetic that Lucky has for fashion (last month’s Lucky featured outfits combining sweat pants and high heels; you have to at least give them credit for not being boring — derelicte, yes, but not boring). I have been reading these design magazines sometimes for remedial tips on how to deal with my home.
This month had a whole article about making your house hospitable for guests. My normal tactic is to ensure that anyone who spends the night at my house is too drunk to notice they are sleeping on the floor with a scratchy uncomfortable afghan made by a relative. But, armed with the new knowledge that this is impolite, we bought a real blanket. I think Jake enjoyed sleeping on the vertiginous windowseat with his new fluffy blanket, peeping on our neighbors from ten stories up. Thanks, Lucky.
There is a good little spread on someone with a small apartment. I like how he has replaced dining room chairs with a banquette thing that takes up less room and has built-in storage. Also, he had made these paintings and placed them sort of in front of big storage shelves in order to hide the unsightly storage. I think the canvases were on some kind of slidey thing so he could easily access the stuff behind them. Will the chief be mad if I create some kind of lovely art to slide in front of the music gear in the living room? I feel this would really pull the room together, as they say.
