ikea shopping list

At the end of the November, we will be in Chicago for Thanksgiving and I am already plotting my IKEA shopping trip. Its probably a good thing that there is no IKEA in St.Louis as I would surely spend way too much time and money there. That being said when I do get to go to IKEA it is quite the shopping extravaganza. Below are some items I will be looking at if not purchasing for Jenn and Mike's living room as well as a few items for our house.  

realty round up: house #3

Time for price category number three, $500,000 - $750,000...

- Maximum number of bedrooms: 6 - Glen Ellyn
- Minimum number of bedrooms: 3 - Columbus, Harbor Springs, Lincoln Park, Nashville and Park City
- Maximum number of bathrooms: 5 - Columbia, East Lansing, Glen Ellyn and Petoskey
- Minimum number of bathrooms: 2 - Park City, Lincoln Park and Columbus
- Largest square footage: 5,168 square feet - East Lansing
- Smallest square footage: 1,385 square feet - Park City
- Highest list price: $750,000 - Glen Ellyn
- Lowest list price: $529,000 - Columbia
- Highest price per square foot: $486 - Park City
- Lowest price per square foot: $102 - Columbia

information and images via Zillow

Of the twenty houses three sold, five reduced their price, five removed ther listing and seven are still for sale. Stay tuned for next week's final comparison installment!

Have a good weekend!

artist feature: david maisel

I came across David Maisel's photographs several years ago and was immediately taken by them. Using aerial photography, Maisel captures environmentally impacted sites - open pit mines, clear-cut forests, zones of water reclamation - presenting the complex relationships between natural systems and human intervention. Leah Ollman of the Los Angeles Times wrote "Maisel's work over the past two decades has argued for an expanded definition of beauty, one that bypasses glamour to encompass the damaged, the transmuted, the decomposed" (via Maisel's website).  Enjoy.

David Maisel, American Mine (Carlin, NV 2), 2007

David Maisel, The Mining Project (Clifton, AZ 7)

David Maisel, Black Maps (Clifton, AZ 2)

David Maisel, Oblivion 8n / Oblivion 9n

David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 5

David Maisel, The Lake Project 19

David Maisel, The Forest 11