Floor, glorious floor...

[fajrdrako]

When I got home from work today, I had a new floor.

Well, a partly new floor. The part that needed renovation.

See, over the last decade or so, the lovely wooden parquet floor of my hallway and living room had become dried out and unglued along the walls alongside my kitchen. Ugly, and easy to trip over on crutches, especially in the doorway to the kitchen, where it was at its worst.

So today the management fixed it. At last. The fixed part is gorgeous.

Comments

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I wish somebody would replace my floor while I was at work! XD

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! and about time.

I hope this training of your apt management to fix longstanding problems will continue.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It has only ever happened to me once (i.e., yesterday), and they only replaced part of my floor - but it was great!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! and about time.

Yes! on both counts.

I have a few other problems to bring to the management's attention. But they're doing the kitchen floor in August - which I look forward to.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I can now confess: I was so incredibly intrigued by the loosened pieces of deliciously sensual hardwood, that I nearly took one with me (on several different visits!) just so I could have it to touch and look at. Yes. When brickled apart, your floor became a collection of trinkets that I coveted. Odd to think about.

But it's also quite lovely and captivating as an entire floor. But in differing ways.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

My floor had trinkets? You should have said something. I could have snaffled a piece of wood for you. If I should find one, in a lost corner, I'll send it to you.

I like it better intact. Bits of wood don't mean much to me. I love trees and twigs, though.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes - this floor delights me.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

My floor had trinkets?

Your floor was trinkets! hee

You should have said something.

Gee. And here I thought you would have been upset with me for wanting to snitch a piece of your floor. Thanks!

I like it better intact.

I imagine! Easier to walk on! Easier to move furniture on. Less worry about escaped budgies finding a way to hide down in there.

Bits of wood don't mean much to me. I love trees and twigs, though.

Hm. Items captivate me by their... uh, presence? No. Their characteristics (and, btw, that word is one of the first that I ever just sat still and savored; such an amazing construction creates it) of surface, both visual and tactile, as well as their shapes, their balance -- how they are shaped, are they symmetrical or not (and "not" is often just as balanced), their mass and their temperature. I like wood because it is all good. I like wood in shapes because wood is capable of such amazing variation. I too like twigs -- individuals, they are! And trees are incredible.

Neat thoughts. I smile to know that I am speaking them to a person who accepts that I feel this way, and understands.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Of course I understand about wood. It's one of my favourite substances.

(I smile to think of Jabe in Doctor Who. Remember her? The beautiful tree-person in "The End of the World"? http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/gallery/monsters/800/jabe.jpg)

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I remember. I wish she'd had more of a role. She was fascinating.

I just like it that you say you like wood. Too many people don't think about such things. But you do. And say so.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Well, of course I do.... I love wood. There are substances I love and others I don't. Wood is one of the good things.