Actually, it doesn't look much worse than my room before I got married the first time - mattress and box springs on the floor, gun rack above that three feet off the floor, reloading bench at the far end, walls covered in maps of mining districts, tackle boxes in one corner and mining tools in another and next to the bed was an ammo crate as a bedside table with a framed picture of my dog on it.
My dwelling was very sparse when I was a single wee lad on my own. A bed, a beanbag chair for 2, small table, microwave, lots of paper plates, lots of sports gear and blankets as curtains. Then the Boss came into my life and now it looks like I live in one of those fancy home living magazine covers. Any split tails that visit the boss eww and ahh over her choice of "just lovely" furniture which means absolutely nothing to me. :P
ReplyDeleteMay as well take advantage of the dead space above furniture and some hooks strategically placed provides handy items close at hand. The Mossberg bolt shotgun right there gives you both persons on berth and couch a firearm. Redneck Engineering man, hell yeah.
ReplyDeleteNope. Almost, but not quite White Trash yet. Missing is the cooler filled with MGD or Bud. There fixed it.
ReplyDeleteThe Christmas lights are a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of using treated lumber for furniture, me.
SHit the "treatment" used today is less harmless than pine pitch. EPA done ruined treated lumber. I treat my own posts buy soaking the bottom third in used motor oil thinned with diesel. About a six month soak will make them last well over 10 years...that is how long the oldest have been posted.
DeletePerhaps its the photo, but doesn't the foremost support on the right look buckled, i.e., ready to collapse?
ReplyDeleteAnother Simpson© plate could add years to the life of this art.
DeleteHe will bang his head when he sits up; if he rolls over to grab the shotgun, he'll have to use his left hand. Otherwise, whatever strikes your primer.
ReplyDeleteYou just watch some woman come inta his life an fuck up all that luxury.
ReplyDeleteMissing cider blocks and Red Bull.
ReplyDeleteAnd spit cups.
DeleteHow does he get up in it?
ReplyDeleteAt least the guy's got actual curtains. For three years I had a bedsheet thrown over the curtain rail in my kitchen. Window looked directly into another window next door, so I never had desire to look out (or let the other person look in, more to the point). Now this was a nice white plain sheet, not a fitted sheet that would hang all funny. I got me standards.
ReplyDelete>buckled upright
Well, the warped 4x4s are much cheaper at the Lowes....
I like it. Making use of wasted space. I live in 400 square foot apartment, so I know how to make the most of what I have and am happy. Every now and then I go house shopping and I can't find anything under 800 sqt. One day I might by some land outside of town and live out of a prefab shed.
ReplyDeleteUsed to love the shelves made out of boards (preferably from an old waterbed) and cinder blocks, always had plenty of hidey holes and sturdy as F.
ReplyDeleteHad one similar when I was at University. Snow tires and motorcycle underneath.
ReplyDeleteClawfoot cast iron tub for ice and an assortment of booze was in the living room.