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That’s pretty.

I would be jealous if you weren’t now living in a crack den.

It's not a crack den! The front room is lovely.

The furniture for the empty room will probably be shipped by the end of this month. Will be here before August then.

Edited 2008-05-08 09:09 (UTC)

But seriously, I am gripped by the thought that I will never live in a house I like so much again.

It was a great space, but the life connected with it - not so good, eh? You have too much will to not end up in a space that you make to your own liking, I think.

It was good by the end, and on its way to being fantastic, but it was unsustainable unless I found some mega-job which I was not on track for at the time, and too far from where I physically need to be.

I’ve never lived anywhere quite that nice, but I did for a while have a lovely little new-built terrace in a conservation area. It was filled with crap hand-me-down furnature, much of which we’ve still got, but it was still a very nice little home.

What with the housing market as it is, I really can’t imagine having anything as nice any time soon.

I had to move in next to a crack alley and a block of homeless shelters to get this space.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat. Turns out a bunch of homeless people scares me less than a group of obviously-drunk London youths.

We’re passed the danger zone. We were most likely to get mugged from mid-teens to mid-twenties. We’re too old to be interesting to ruffians any more.

Do you think that you won't be able to create a space like that again?

I don't think I'll be able to afford the dwelling itself in a location I want to live.

What wonderful space. I hope you find something you like as much sometime. Any interest in it?

No buyers.

The market is so bad right now. Hopefully it will pick up soon. It has been bad for about 4 years now.

You still own the place, right?

You have a job where you commute to another country.

Couldn't your home base be LA instead of London?

My career is not in the space where the economics of that would work. I pay for my commute and lodgings out of my day rate, so commuting from LA would be difficult to make happen. I'd have to be away for such stretches I basically would not be living in that space, just vacationing in it.

I enjoy not living in the US.

My home base would be too far from my family.

The loft is luscious but that webpage is very clever and really nicely done!

Thank you. Took a full week.

Have you sent that link to Bill?

No, but he pretty much has all the photographs.