MY HOUSE

His problem is a little different from mine. His house is basically strong and newish. The floor looks great. He uses every upturned surface to put "clean" junk on. things on (thinking what about the eventually result is unclear). My house had been added onto over the years in clean-enough but irregular and amateur (hippie-ish) fashion by previous owner. The original section was a miners cabin well north of 100 years old. This section had been cut down the center and moved by rail to this ex-mining town c. 1920, and it exudes generosity of proportions with extremely battered detail (like windows and wide old fashioned boards now split and rugged. All the added on parts, including my studio, are layered with linoleum (or some such) tiles. Nothing being particularly conventionally "nice," I furnish my studio with cardboard boxes, mostly adapting them as crude wall-affixed shelves. So as to accommodate paint spilled on the ground, or avoid cleaning the black gunk which continually oozes up between the tiles, I layered the floor with cardboard pieces taped together in a funky but "felt grid-like  formation. Given the amount of discarded paper and etc. I collect, keeping stuff off the floor is my proud achievement. But things are tucked away in the wall "shelves" in an unsystematic (or disorganized?) way, and finding them is challenging. Nothing looks "good" or new or conventional the way Peter's house-by-itself looks.