Old fashioned

There are so many ways to be old fashioned and I think we top it on many aspects. 

One of the last things we tried to revive is our CD collection (or mostly mine, although most of my CDs/cases are in Italy). 

Media and entertainment section. Board games, vinyls and now the CDs.

Sorting the CDs out

 Since we moved in into an apartment, I had actually searched for a good place for having all the CDs, and we had bought some awful IKEA shelf that we moved from apartment to apartment and eventually landed also in the house. 

It was not really fitting though and it was soon sold - hard to sell though, not so many people these days have CDs or even DVDs. 

I did manage to find a CD tower that has a quite good look and I then unpacked all the CDs that we had around since I had put them in portable cases - it was also easier to have them in the car, back then.

The problem I see is that even if this is a quite big tower, I have so many CDs still to place that they won't fit! 

This will be a new "problem" to solve.

Said that, CDs are having a bit of second life, although vinyls have become pretty popular again. 

Good for me that had quite some nice CDs (also quite some crappy). The only disadvantage is that there is no time to put a CD and listen to it. I mostly listen to music when cleaning and therefore th phone or a speaker becomes more handy.

Lamps - an old subject

Some typical subject for this blog has been lamps. 

We have though lived in the house for about 12 years and still, there are plenty of lamps to fix. One of the rooms that have deserved a bit of love "lightwise" is the kitchen, as when the sun goes down, it is basically impossible to cook (and still it is, on the southwest side of it) as it is dark, no matter which lights one has turned on.

I have had hard time thinking what kind of lamp would suit in the kitchen. The current kitchen is not what should be the "final" kitchen and the idea I have in mind for that one is closer to a modern interpretation of a turn of the century kitchen (we are talking of the beginning of the 1900-century). 

The kitchen spot that needed a lamp/light

I should have therefore been thinking of some wall lamp in Jugend style, but I never managed to find any that would convince me. Also, we had at the same time to provide some form of lamp in the pentry. 

When we came to view the house when it was on sale, there was a nice globe there. When we moved in in the  house there was just a lightbulb. I was hoping to find something that would fit that without having to make drastic changes, but that was not really possible.

The lightbulb support that was in the pentry

I had a thought in mind on how we should fix both places, but at the end I bought something on some Facebook private advertisement which was at least cheap and retro. It would work great in a beautiful kitchen (or bathroom) from the 40s-50s, in pastel colors, but well, it works for now at least. 

One of the two lamps (looks like Mumin) before being mounted

The one in the pentry became even less optimal. The cable positionin was not allowing the lamp to be mounted where there was the lightbulb and now I have a memory of the fact that the globe vanished before we could move in. I actually wonder if it had been on that wall for a while...

So, be light!

A less perfect implementation of my idea