Archive for September, 2011

Realism in Murals


2011
09.05

I love building murals that add great architectural detail to a blank facade.  In french, it’s called Trompe L’Oeil (to trick the eye).  Don’t get me wrong, regular murals are good too, but the artists that try to tie the mural into the building always impress me.

Growing up in St. Louis, every time we drove by this building I was fascinated: (more…)





Allergies in the home?


2011
09.01

I’m allergic to cats.  Not dramatically allergic, but if you have a cat and I come to your house, after about an hour or two my eyes will start to water, itch and burn.  It’s not a pleasant feeling, so I try to be careful when I go to a house that has cats.  If I do, I take a claritan or benadryl before I go and try not to touch anything that could have fur embedded in it.

I figure that the house below must be allergic to cats and got a new 90 year old single woman with 42 cats that just moved in.  Does Benjamin Moore make a paint with an anti-histamine?