Unashamedly inspired by the book A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams by Michael Pollan, this site follows my journey into designing and maybe even constructing my own little piece of reality.
Having undertaken a barn conversion project as client, project manager, sometime designer, odd-job-man, tiler, pointer etc. etc. I came to better know my limitations. But that wasn’t to stopped me, rather the experience fed my desire to diversify and develop – to move on to the ‘next’ project. But just what form that project was to take alluded me. It was upon reading ‘A Place of My Own’ that my ideas started to crystallise.
I’d long hankered after my own den, a place for a little solitude and somewhere to store my accumulation of ‘stuff’. I’d even picked out a spot for it, at the end of the garden after a gentle amble beyond some favourite fruit trees, far enough for a transition from home, close enough for a quick dash to pick up something forgotten on a earlier journey.
My aim is to go through the whole of the process thoroughly involved throughout. With my day job in the world of corporate software application development, my own small web publishing company and subsequently with my fingers in (too) many pies, I’ll apply the same approach to this. Maintain my involvement in all phases of the project and personally own, the (sticking with the corporate project management terminology)…
My Place Of My Own – ‘hello world’
Unashamedly inspired by the book A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams
by Michael Pollan, this site follows my journey into designing and maybe even constructing my own little piece of reality.
Having undertaken a barn conversion project as client, project manager, sometime designer, odd-job-man, tiler, pointer etc. etc. I came to better know my limitations. But that wasn’t to stopped me, rather the experience fed my desire to diversify and develop – to move on to the ‘next’ project. But just what form that project was to take alluded me. It was upon reading ‘A Place of My Own’ that my ideas started to crystallise.
I’d long hankered after my own den, a place for a little solitude and somewhere to store my accumulation of ‘stuff’. I’d even picked out a spot for it, at the end of the garden after a gentle amble beyond some favourite fruit trees, far enough for a transition from home, close enough for a quick dash to pick up something forgotten on a earlier journey.
My aim is to go through the whole of the process thoroughly involved throughout. With my day job in the world of corporate software application development, my own small web publishing company and subsequently with my fingers in (too) many pies, I’ll apply the same approach to this. Maintain my involvement in all phases of the project and personally own, the (sticking with the corporate project management terminology)…
Hopefully, after a thorough test I can hand over to a happy project sponsor (me!).
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