Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 10:31pm (EST-3) (hylourgos)
wanders in a daze and asks:
snip What do you regularly look at for ideas? Architectural Digest,
FWW, what? I'd love to have some better sources for printed material to
mine for inspiration.

Rarely, or never, any of those. I would say mostly by just sitting
down and thinking about what I want. Sometimes in the library (mine),
and sometimes not. Next I would say google, especially google images.
I do google searches probabl daily, and usually several - which is how
I'm slowly developing the design for a bed for myself. And, a couple of
times, I've asked my 6 yo grand-dau, and got ideas that worked. Use
your mind and imagination, asking people is a last resort.

Right now I'm in the middle of a vehicle project. I've asked other
people a few, very few, quesitons on technical aspects, but mostly I
figured them out on my own - I don't try to reinvent the wheel tho.
And, if I'd asked anyone about any of the design aspects, they'd have
either told me it could not be done, or that "I" could not do it - and
they were so wrong.

Bottom line, do what pleases you, after all, it's your time and
money - unless you're doing it for someone else. And, it ain't rocket
science. Plans? Plans? Don' need no steenkin' plans.



JOAT
You'll never get anywhere if you believe what you "hear".
What do you "know"?
- Granny Weatherwax