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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsjohn heileman wins the best home backdrop so far. so color coordinated,
right down to fife the dog. mmmm. love those warm greys, and those little bits of ktchen aid red make it perfect.
woof.
idziak4ever1234
(1,257 posts)Claire McCaskill has a nice kitchen too!
mopinko
(70,268 posts)if i had drawn a little sketch of what i thought claire's kitchen looked like, it would be just that.
True Blue American
(17,994 posts)The Kitchen! It is amazing how each kitchen fits the person. Jeff is laid back, Geoffrey has a sophisticated Kitchen. Katy Now expecting,Tiny kitchen and Sunny grills out side.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)looks like an efficient home base/launch pad for a busy life that has little to do with tradition.
James Carville's vintage NOLA home, chosen by Matalin when they moved to New Orleans, is very different. He did an interview in the large kitchen meant for extended family with very different needs. Old house with a very high (room for heat to rise) old, wood beamed and boarded ceiling. Wish I had a picture. But I found this:
My father had just died and I had a feeling that the house was his parting supernatural gift to me. It happened so suddenly, so easily: it was meant to be. ... And the neighborhood called to me, and all around it, the shattered city, a place I loved. I telephoned James, ... and soon afterward he pulled up with his sisters in towso many Carvilles squeezed together in one vehicle that they could barely exit in a civilized manner.
CARVILLE: After Hurricane Katrina, I couldnt stop thinking about the fragility of New Orleans. What really sets it apart from almost anywhere else in America is this: its survival isnt guaranteed. Washington is going to be there fifty years from now. Dallas is going to be there. Nashville might get a flood or a tornado, but itll be there. Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, theyre not going anywhere.
In New Orleans, thats never a given. The citys permanent existence is never assured. Its environmentally fragile, its economically fragile, and its politically fragile. After Katrina, it really could have gone either way. ... But it wasnt only that two-thirds of the city had flooded. It was that the whole culture could go under. So many musical instruments had washed away, and the musicians who owned them were scattered all across the country. Hundreds of doctors left. Schools closed. I started having visions that New Orleans would wind up as a little spit of land on the Mississippi, the size of Key West. I could imagine us sitting around a piano thirty years from now, playing a couple of old songs and telling the kids how it used to be.
Id been raised sixty miles up the river in Carville, a little town named after my grandfather, who was the postmaster. Id already witnessed pieces of old Louisiana disappear. My mother was Cajun, descended from the Acadians who settled in Louisiana, and she and my grandmother would talk to each other in French. I remember being kind of embarrassed by that as a kid. I wasnt the only one. After World War II, everybody just wanted to be an American.
These days, there are relatively few French speakers in Louisiana, but that wasnt the case when I was growing up. I worked offshore on a dredge boat, and Id hear people say, You know what, I just cant explain it to you in English. There were some French-language radio stations, but theyve largely gone off the air. As I got older, I couldnt believe that we were so stupid, as a people, to lose that part of our culture.
... But nobody does culture like New Orleans. ... After the storm, the thought kept gnawing at me: what if that culture doesnt last? ... When it dawned on me that it might not, I went from simply missing New Orleans to feeling this gripping fear that it might fade away before I could get down there for good. As much as anything, I wanted to get back home before home disappeared.
Heilmann would never say anything like that about this DC or VA home. McCaskill would say it differently because she never really left and whatever else happens it's not going anywhere.
malaise
(269,219 posts)for real
dem4decades
(11,307 posts)liberalla
(9,266 posts)I like Heileman.
Lars39
(26,117 posts)Looks nice.
liberalla
(9,266 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)True Blue American
(17,994 posts)underpants
(182,950 posts)Ive noticed that.
Krugman and the guy on Fox
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)mopinko
(70,268 posts)just looked for a pic, and couldnt find one. got a whole page of talking heads in their homes, tho.
what a world.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Greybnk48
(10,177 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,679 posts)My SO's daughter had one, but due to circumstances, spent the better part of 18 months with us. A sweeter dog, you can't find. But her bark would send the fear of God to anyone not expecting her. She is 135 lbs and likes to jump on folks she knows.
Sadly, they have have a short life span compared to smaller dogs. She always seems to be visiting the vet for various ailments.
mopinko
(70,268 posts)hard enough w a boxer, w a ~12 year expected life span. even my mutts, who all lived longer, an ailing old dog is such a weight on the heart.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)My son has had to lay two boxers down.
They've opted for a puggle this time.
"The larger the dog, the shorter the lifespan."
GeorgeGist
(25,324 posts)mopinko
(70,268 posts)Tracer
(2,769 posts)The stove is in an awkward position, plunked right next to a doorway and has no cabinet or countertop on the right side. A little bit dangerous for people walking by and nowhere to put down a pot or pan on that side.
It should have been positioned in the middle of that bank of rear cabinets.
Other than that, it's quite nice.
And I hope that Fife's other brother is named "Drum".