it's in an historic home in north Tacoma. a history teacher owns the house and is renting out this apartment and another one. gorgeous detailing and a splendiferous location. from the apartment i can see the Puget Sound. There's a roof deck for the kitties and coved ceilings for me. heaven.
Even more intense in person! oh, and the aroma.... made me giddy. i love that someone with some design sensibility put them together. the "buy your own" area was grouped by colour. so lovely. so vibrant. even the cool cool whites and minty greens.
I started blogging when I wearied of racing purebred gerbils in the Large Hadron Collider.
Why "truth & beauty"? Here's the story:
In my former career as an architect, I worked in the London office of an American architectural firm for a while.
The project architect for the project that I was working on was a tall lanky lad from the USA, who was personally responsible for checking every single steel reinforcing drawing that came across his desk for a particular international bank's renovation. A lot of responsibility and no nourishment for the soul.
One morning when I came into work I found him surrounded by about 10 stacks of steel reinforcing drawings, all about three feet high. I asked him how he was, and his mournful response was:"Hell, Lysa, I went to school to learn how to create Truth and Beauty and look what I'm doing now."