Mid-Century Mod-ification

wow

tristan — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:00:31 +0000

Well, been a long time. We’ve made some changes to the house over the last few months. Nothing major though, some landscaping, and other minor tweaks. The current project is to get a room setup for our little guy, to make room in the nursery for an upcoming tiny new comer.

So here are the before shots of the window well in the bedroom. While the mural and tile are interesting, it isn’t quite what we have envisioned for the house…the after images will be forthcoming…

there are two images to click on (divided by the thin grey line) not so keen on how this blog template works with these images…that might have to change

Mid-century dinner party

tristan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:32:52 +0000

Hosted a mid-century themed dinner party this weekend. Good times. Tried to give the images a mid-century vibe. Note the atomic cocktail wiener hors d’oeuvres, and the Old Fashioned cocktails.

Found a job

tristan — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:21:06 +0000

I found a job. I’ll be doing contract work for Hunter Douglas for the next 3months, and then hopefully longer. Hunter Douglas

lOOKING FOR A JOB

tristan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:15:05 +0000

working in a 2 person firm had its advantages and definitly its disadvantages. If you’re not at the top of the ladder then you’re at the bottom, and being at the bottom, you’re the only fat to cut when the architecture and construction market comes to a halt. So I was let go and am now in the need of a job. Anybody have any connections or in the need of a talented young individual?

Go here for my background…http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/a8/551

Hello world!

tristan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:49:54 +0000

Welcome to Utah Modern : Modern Living in Utah. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Grassroots Affordable Modern Kitchen Contest

tristan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:09:00 +0000

Kitchen Contest

tristan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:29:00 +0000

I hope that you haven’t lost that voting mood…
One of our fav local blogs, Grassroots Modern, is hosting a kitchen contest. We entered our kitchen and it made the 10 and is now eligible to be voted for. The voting starts today! Obviously, we’d like it if you all voted for ours, but as long as you vote for one, that’d be cool with us.
Go to this site, http://grassrootsmodern.com/2008/11/10/voting-begins-today/
Or here for the direct voting page, http://grassrootsmodern.com/vote-affordable-modern-kitchen-contest/

Our kitchen, obviously, is the Mid Century Mod-ification.

tristan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:12:00 +0000

Here’s another view of the couch in response to the comment the other day. Most of the furniture we have in the house, that is not from Ikea, came from Copenhagen West. We’ve been happy with the quality, service, and price of what we’ve bought from there. It seems that you can’t go wrong with Scandinavian design. (see Aalto, Sarrinen, Volvo, Jacobsen, Stelton,to name a few.)

no more remodeling

tristan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:55:00 +0000

So, we’re done remodeling. So I’m more or less done with this blog. I intended to post cool products and projects, but as you can tell, I don’t really have the time. Plus, if you want to know about that stuff you should just hire me. That what I do.

After the hiatus…

tristan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:24:00 +0000

Sorry for the long time between posts. Been busy and just taking some time to actually enjoy the house. My dad flew into town to lend his help with the house (and spend some time with his grandkid). We had a small list of things to do on the house, nothing too serious, some cleaning, installing small items, fixing the doorbell… However, the way my dad works, he had most of those done within the first morning he was in town and had added some larger more involved and significant projects to the list.
One of those projects was to replace some rotted boards on the deck. This also involved reinforcing and refurbishing the support joists with extra joists, dry rot epoxy resin, bondo, and new flashing. The existing railing on the deck doesn’t even come close to meeting code. My plan is to build a new guardrail at some point, but we don’t have the funds to do it at the moment and I haven’t quite gotten around to designing it yet. So we put up a temporary rail in the mean time.

I also got around to making the return-air grill that’s in the front hallway. Usually these things are pretty ugly, just a bunch of horizontal louvers which are nothing special. I did find a company that makes some really cool grilles custom ordered to whatever dimension you want in a variety of materials. That company is called Architectural Grille. However, a grill that was 12″x24″ would have cost around $185 including shipping. That seemed a little steep.
So, I decided to make one myself and went to a metal shop and had a piece of perforated Aluminum cut to size. I then bent over the edge myself to create a little lip and bought some 1/4″ aluminum spacers for the screws so it wouldn’t crush when screwed tight. you may have noticed that I did a similar screen for the exhaust fan over the kitchen stove.