I'm going to design and build myself a small beachy weekend house where I can go to write.

11/4/03

This is my father's beach house, which he built with his own hands on Long Beach Island, and was subsequently torn down by the next owner, a philistine who wanted to build out to the edge of the lot. Anyway, I spent many happy childhood hours in it and would like to reuse some of the architectural cues like the railing on the second story, large windows, and unfinished exterior.

11/13/03

I'm not an architecht, but I do know that you need to make a lot of sketches in the process of designing a building. Here's my first, with many more to follow. I'm trying to decide if I want to add the expense of having running water and electricity, which is why there is no bathroom.

And here are two magazine clippings of things I like. The first is Javier Salinas's Casa Calvo in Costa Rica, and the second is the interior of an Atelier Bow-Wow house built for Shin Sugawara, in Chiba.

11/26/03 Lazy, lazy, lazy: more from the scrapbook. This image is from the Popeye Interior Book, a Japanese mook - "magazine-book." I have no idea who the man in the hammock is, but I love indoor hammocks, and also the loose stones in the pulled-up floorboards. Small space, nice work!