Property News · June 30, 2018

A journalist who’s also a voyeur? What could be more natural? | Bim Adewunmi


I love looking round other people’s homesI love to rearrange my apartment on a whim, no matter the time of day (my downstairs neighbours love me). I am the queen of DIY projects: I will sew, spray paint, assemble and mount with glee and a glue gun. If I had not heeded the siren call of journalism, I would have gone for interior design, forcing my will on the design-challenged. I read interiors magazines and try to recreate budget versions of the showcased homes. I am basically a voyeur, peering into strangers’ homes and taking notes.So imagine my joy when I visited Chicago recently, and discovered precisely the thing to feed my obsession. When I asked for recommendations, my friend Eleanor’s response was cryptic. “Are you a fan of miniature things?” she asked, and the answer was a resounding yes. So that’s how I ended up spending a sunny afternoon in the basement of the Art Institute of Chicago, walking through the Thorne Miniature Rooms and peering into tiny replicas of living spaces from the last few hundred years. Reader, I almost floated with joy. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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