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Jul 18Liked by Vaughn Tan

yeah. i had a carpenter quit on me because he was unwilling to "engage directly with their irregular environments"

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did you take matters into your own hands?

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it is actually the second carpenter. now, i have grandiose plans (for a small niche), but it is in the middle of the living room, so it needs to look good-good, so no.

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Jun 27Liked by Vaughn Tan

and what of loose coupling? p/ex, shelves that, by virtue of an inner integrity call attention to the gappiness (ruggedness?) of the shelf-alcove interface without trying to change it — and in this way help us make peace with the fact that someday this arrangement (shelves, alcove) will change …

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in this case also trying to minimize material by using the alcove for transmitting vertical load, so that kind of loose coupling would eventually be disastrous. why not make an already annoying problem even more annoying?

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Jul 18Liked by Vaughn Tan

that is, of course, the right thing to do (even if not correct)

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could have put a pair of ikea billy cases into the alcove and saved 12 days and quite a lot of € in maritime pine ply 🫠

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