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28 December 2007

so the broken house status report Still broken.→[More:]Someone came over xmas eve to bolt a 2x4 through the wall into the brick of house, a horizontal bar from floor to ceiling behind the radiator to keep it up, and a wedge from the attached board to the opposite wall.

Today landlord and insurance guy came over. Just our luck, it's unseasonably warm and not at all windy, so they really couldn't tell how bad it is/will get when the weather takes a turn.

She wants it fixed. The insurance people are, as always, being jerky.

The landlord explained why it was done so oddly, too.

See, those windows... they are inches from the shady neighbors porch. She didn't like them being able to see in, tennants didn't like it, but we are in a historic preservation district. Can't brick over them since it would be a "significant" change to the exterior of the house, and can't do glass block since it's banned by the preservation association.

Ugh. But, I know what this means. Peel-off at home diy stained glass kit. Three windows, three scenes: Homer Simpson, the Tardis in space, and a x-wing fighter.
Ye-ha!

post by: kellydamnit at: 12:05 | 6 comments

A classier option might be the peel on frosting. The higher end stuff looks indistinguishable from the real thing. Also, I've also got neighbors a short distance from my living room windows, and I've found that Ikea's sheer curtains will allow light into the room while effectively blocking views from either side.

posted by pieisexactlythree 28 December | 12:13

Another approach that you might take with the windows, given the WW2 bomber kitchen (is that the same place?):

A Mustang and Thunderbolt silhouette in the left window, a Spit and a Hurricane silhouette in the right, and in the middle CHECK SIX (look behind you) in huge letters. You could make the CHECK SIX look like nose art; surely there was at least one plane named that somewhere in the European theater.

Or whatever "check six" is in German.

(reminded of the tale of a USAF base commander who painted the Russian for CHECK SIX, IVAN on the roof of a hangar for the amusement of Soviet satellite recon people)

posted by ROU Xenophobe 28 December | 12:55

Instead of 'broken house,' you should call it a 'broken home.' Sounds more pitiful.

Also, maybe consider an image from Deep Space Homer? I love that episode.

posted by box 28 December | 13:12

box, that is PERFECT!

ROU Xenophobe, this is the apartment with the WWII kitchen, but that's two rooms away from the wall in question. The room that is in is mostly simpsons and Doctor Who knick-knacks and electronics.

posted by kellydamnit 28 December | 15:13

You could do a whole window devoted to the glory of the Inanimate Carbon Rod. Perhaps all three... one displaying its miraculous victory over Homer in the Employee of the Month contest, another just displaying the rod itself, and another of its welcome-home parade.

That, or the Hypnotoad. You can't go wrong with the HypnnnnnnnnBRAIN SLUG.

posted by ROU Xenophobe 28 December | 22:10

Did you see the Futurama movie yet? FULL EPISODE of Everyone Loves Hypnotoad in the extras!

(oh, and apparently my landlord just had the workmen who came out to shore up the damaged wall talk to the insurance people. They told us flat out "this entire wall will need to be ripped out and replaced" and they can explain it better than my roommate or landlord could when the insurance guy was here. Moreso since it's now been raining for a couple days and that drywall will start to rot away very soon.

posted by kellydamnit 28 December | 23:44

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