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Six Household DIY Projects I’ll Probably Never Do

Maris Callahan — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:06:47 +0000

This month, Brad and I moved from our respective homes into the rear apartment in a big, beautiful old house in Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood. Before this, I lived in a convertible studio in a downtown high rise (translation: beautiful apartment, minimal space) and Brad in a smaller apartment in a different big beautiful old house with his roommate of the better part of the last decade. Suffice to say, we have more space than we do stuff, so we don’t know what to do with a lot of the extra square footage. What we do know, is that both of us are filled with grandiose DIY ideas for how we’d like to fill said space. I love to buy pretty things and Brad loves woodworking and is excited about all of the different projects we’ve been scheming. It’s pretty much perfect. The thing is, we have some limitations. And I’m going to be blunt here: I’m one of those limitations. My creative ability and vision is decent, but my executional abilities are, well, lacking. As we’ve been crawling every corner of the web to look for ideas and inspiration, I keep finding things that, well, we’ll just never do. Now, I know, […]

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A New Adventure: Moving to Chicago

Maris Callahan — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 +0000

New York is the city that everyone loves to hate. Even the natives, the lifers complain about the crowded urban streets, the slow moving tourists and the signature aroma of the E-train in August. Whether its the latest gubernatorial scandal or a looming pandemic of influenza that leaves tourists scrambling for hygienic face masks, it seems that this city is always abuzz, always on the edge of something. Some people love it, others, not so much. In 2005, the summer before my senior year in college I had an internship at an entertainment marketing agency where my boss was twenty-five and hip, the other interns gossiped about Juicy sweatshirts and everybody seemed to know someone famous. I felt high walking through Times Square (maybe I’ll see Sarah Jessica Parker!) and I wanted to dress as trendy as everyone else. I had to live here. My first summer in the city brought me a job in a public relations firm where we wore jeans on Fridays and drank vodka tonics (I hate vodka tonics)at the dive bar around the corner after especially long or taxing days. I had fleeting friendships with girls who wore Theory blazers and took me to dinner […]

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