I'm moving in again to a new place for the 08-09 school year  I don't plan on bringing too much, but I do want to make it comfortable  I don't dig the peach/yellowish walls ...bleh... That might have to change.

 

Here's a picture of the building (this photo is not mine)

 

 

And my apartment:

 

 

 

Extremely ultra-modern appliances from 1978.  Hey, they work pretty damn well!:

 

 

Wow, that's a pretty nice and spacious place.

Nice place!

Great-looking building, and a nice space that looks like it has good natural light.

The fridge might be an issue with the lack of separate freezer.  My friend has a similar fridge and could basically fit a small bag of ice and a single frozen dinner.

I think I've seen like 4 different apartments that you've lived in over the past couple of years.

You certainly are a mover.

Very nice, I'll post pictures of my new place once I get it cleaned up.  :-)

ahhh.  You kids are all grown up (sniff) and leaving home (sniff, sniff) I guess we raised you right!  I'm all verklempt!

Looks a hell of a lot better than those sh!tholes you were in last time...

I was really surprised by this place.  The building is almost 80 years old, but it's in good condition.  It smells clean on the inside.  Not like the typical rotting student tenements.  The landlord had actually cleaned the place.  The floors were polished up, carpets were cleaned and vacuumed, and the bathroom has new fixtures with the exception of the tub.  Granted the appliances are old, but as I said they work.  The only letdown is the tiny icebox in the fridge.  Not sure I'm a fan of the glass doors everywhere.  I'm going to have some friends temporarily living with me for the first month so that will all have to get covered.  "I'm going to bed, so shut up"  Closes the glass door and flicks on tv in bedroom.  "You're not sleeping, I can see you!!"

 

I googled my building and found quite a bit of info.

http://www.aadl.org/gallery/buildings/hhaa069.gif.html

 

 

 

I was really surprised by this place. The building is almost 80 years old, but it's in good condition. It smells clean on the inside. Not like the typical rotting student tenements. The landlord had actually cleaned the place. The floors were polished up, carpets were cleaned and vacuumed, and the bathroom has new fixtures with the exception of the tub. Granted the appliances are old, but as I said they work. The only letdown is the tiny icebox in the fridge. Not sure I'm a fan of the glass doors everywhere. I'm going to have some friends temporarily living with me for the first month so that will all have to get covered. "I'm going to bed, so shut up" Closes the glass door and flicks on tv in bedroom. "You're not sleeping, I can see you!!"

 

I googled my building and found quite a bit of info.

http://www.aadl.org/gallery/buildings/hhaa069.gif.html

 

 

 

 

You can fix that by buying privacy film at a hardware store/home depot/Lowe's.  You can cut and cover the glass blocks. If they offer you the spray, DO NOT buy it, as it is permanent.

I finished.

 

 

I honestly don't use the curling bar much, but it's the only place I could put it so it wouldn't destroy the wood floors

 

 

My housemate from last year built the coffee table and gave it to me since he couldn't move it out to UCLA.

 

Looking out from my bedroom, and all my friend's sh!t on the left that needs to go back to Chicago

 

All the Comcast crap so I can visit urbanohio

 

The view if you look left out the window really hard

 

Very nice!! Looks very home-y.

BAH!

Is that coffee table one of those new Microsoft Surface computers? ;)

 

I wish, lol.  It's actually supposed to light up from beneath.

 

My former housemate made it for an architecture assignment from recycled materials.  The top part is a window recovered from a demolition site.  The wood from a construction dumpster.  He went off to UCLA and left it with me.  It had a old fluorescent light troffer inside, but it broke in transit...woops.........

 

I'm considering getting an even larger flat screen monitor for my computer.  I was wondering what to do with the old one, but you just gave me an idea.

I like your Roots,Kweli, and Common posters.  Pretty clean way to display all of them.

^yeah, good taste Hayward. And the frames do look great. Did you make them yourself? I too have noticed how much a difference a frame makes on a nice poster. It totally classes up the place. I did that for my drug den, and the chicks loved it.

 

I'm sure they did, C-Dawg, I'm sure they did.

Glad you like the posters.  They were actual advertisements when those albums came out as opposed to something you might find on posters.com.  They can't be replaced, so I put them behind glass, although I have a copy of each rolled up in the event something happens.  The frames are store bought, and for quite sometime the Roots one had a large chunk of broken glass missing

 

 

Here's a photo of the front I took today.  Currently 38 residents live in the building.

 

 

I also find it interesting the back has some detailing too.

^yeah, good taste Hayward. And the frames do look great. Did you make them yourself? I too have noticed how much a difference a frame makes on a nice poster. It totally classes up the place. I did that for my drug den, and the chicks loved it.

 

 

^ LOL

Marginally relevant to the thread, but something I discovered while framing photographs.

 

Acrylic glazing works better than glass in many respects:

- It's colorless and clear. Glass, even the "picture glass" used by many framers, has a greenish cast to it that mutes colors and contrast and dulls the appearance of a poster, print or photo. Put acrylic and glass side-by-side over a print, and the difference really pops out at you.

- It provides better UV protection against fading.

- It's much lighter in weight. The difference is very noticeable in a 16x20 frame. You can use a smaller hanger & nail and run less risk of plaster damage and a hit on your deposit when you move out. Even lighter when you use a wood frame instead of metal.

- It's unlikely to break from impact and damage the print or poster.

 

Isn't acryllic really awful to clean though?

Isn't acryllic really awful to clean though?

 

You have to be careful with it, because it scratches fairly easily. No paper towels (some have abrasive materials or even metal fibers embedded), no regular glass cleaners with ammonia or organic solvent. Just a damp soft cloth will usually do it.

 

You can find cleaners for acrylic at the same places that sell it. I've bought most of mine from Lowe's, and use Plaskolite Plastic Cleaner on it. It's also anti-static. Most cities of any size have industrial plastic suppliers, too, but some of those have minimum-bill policies.

 

A good on-line source for framing supplies is Light Impressions. Probably not the cheapest, but they have just about everything and will custom-cut, and quality and service are good. They have acrylic in various weights, with scratch-resistant coating on one side. Another neat thing they have is clear plastic spacer stock, 1/4 x 1/8, that you can use behind the glazing when you want to prevent direct contact between the glazing and the artwork or mat. It has peel-strip adhesive on two sides so that you can turn it for either 1/8 or 1/4 spacing.