What does your home look like?

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:04 pm

I had a few people over to my place last month to talk about possible BM projects. One of them had a very disappointed look when she walked in and said "This doesn't look like a burner's house!". I assume she meant it looked plain and normal, which it is. I chose the place specifically because the big yard, big detached shop, low price, and proximity to hardware stores would make it possible to build big stuff for Burning Man. In my desire to make my environment functional I've apparently neglected my interior decoration obligations.

So... I wonder, have all of you been doing your part? Are your walls covered with trippy BM-inspired art? Does it smell like a combination of playa dust, sweat, astro glide and pot? Do you have strange looking art everywhere? What exactly is a "burner house" supposed to look like?

MikeVDS · Post by **MikeVDS** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:26 pm

Mine is fairly normal as well. I have one room that's filled with mutant clothing, hats, goggles, decorations, blinky cups half taken apart or put together projects, etc. My side yard has a pile of bamboo and a stainless steel dish. Other than that and the bright green walls, I guess it's normalish. Most people I know are the same. They have some area that's burningman junk everywhere, and the rest is simple.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:28 pm

I like the stark/bare look..Eather it is being used or put away..Shaker style..The shop walls are hung with my wild ideas..No lawn, gravel designed patchs and raked bare earth..

motskyroonmatick · Post by **motskyroonmatick** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:28 pm

My house is normal. It is a 1975 ranch with an extra attached garage at the back that I use as a shop. I bought it because it was about the only house on the market that I could afford that still allowed me to be close to the volunteer fire station that I am part of. The decor is not burnish but I do have a few books and DVDs lying about and there is the satelite image of 05 BRC on the office wall. My camp stuff is split between the shop and garage. The E-L lit mountain bike allways gets second looks when I ride it arround town at night.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:18 pm

Well, I'm living in an apartment, so you bet it looks straight as an arrow outside. At casual glance, anyway.

But, I got subtle little sparkly-arty-cool things hanging around the balcony, like a gargoyle perched on the corner and another next to the sliding door. Out front on my landing I have a wolf-headed wooden post with glow stars, a lo-pan mirror (feng shui) and a concrete Egyptian-style bench that I've had forever.

I have a birch twig wreath hanging on my front door...

Edit:
Oh, you want inside, too!
This place DEFINITELY looks like a Burner house, then. Stuffies have practically taken over the bedroom, all my crafting stuff is scattered between the living room, wash room and guest bedroom, garlands, altars and wood for working everywhere.

Books books books books books books BOOKS!! Cat wandering around. Some candles. Chef pig and copper pots in the kitchen hanging from a rack, marble cutting board, slow cooker, garlic and herb wreathes. Faerie lights abound in every room and many of the windows.

Interior doors are open and covered with drapes or hung with bead curtains; some have knick-knack shelves over them or are hung with garlands, also. Posters of Alex Grey art, wolves, horses, old prints, family photos, cabinets for kitchen and horse stuff, nutcrackers, toys everywhere you look. If it ain't toys, it's a project in various states of completion.

Oh, and since I don't have a garage, my burn gear is piled in the middle of my living room

Toolmaker · Post by **Toolmaker** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:33 pm

It has walls, some lighting fixtures, a place to piss and shit, a place to cook and eat, and a place to sleep. I am thankful that I have it.. some are not as fortunate as I am. One TV has the picture tube removed with a fishtank inside it. The other TV has a bullet hole in it. The computer monitors do not have bullet holes in them. I have 3 dartboards, presidents on each.. Reagan, Bush, and Clinton. In 2008 a fourth will be added with lilBush. I have a bunch of bookshelves and about 500 books of all sorts. I have 2 Kennedy toolboxes and an oak Gerstner for tools. A gunsafe for rifles and guns in my closet. Not much in the way of posters or artwork.. too poor to afford that luxury. I used to have alot of posters and art but have given most away to folks that liked em more than me. My books and tools are most importnat to me aside from my firearms and "camping" gear. I follow the minuteman rule so there is always a pack at the ready with essentials. I recently got a storage unit so the generator and some other shit is out of the "living" room.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:33 pm

Right now, a fairly standard, low rent, two bedroom apartment, with a lot of the stuff still in boxes. Never did get it all unpacked. I guess it will make moving out easier.

Eventually, I want some place where I can have a workshop so I can actually have some of the hobbies I want to have, but those plans are STILL on hold, @#$% it!

B.

Tiahaar · Post by **Tiahaar** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:02 pm

I rent a studio that used to be a two-car garage (complete with sheetrocked-over swing up door) with the kitchenette and bath where a laundry room was originally. 900 a month but does come with one side of the driveway where I park my HorseTrike and covered-up truck and best of all a little side yard where I can weld things. There's a big tall tricycle (#2) being put together out there that's now rideable, now working on the details and decorations. As soon as I plan how to make a living away from the IR camera business I'm moving out to a little desert town. Oh! The inside is very very cluttered in an organized way. There's the "gearbox, sprockets, driveline" pile, the "assorted electronic projects" pile, the "toolbox row", a heap of faux fur in the shower, and lots of ahem nude male and fantasy creature paintings covering the walls and two Black Rock City panoramas : ) Oh yeah, its a crazy burner bachelor workshop for sure. Wish a photo could capture it. I envy you folks with a house and detached workshop even if (maybe especially if!) its out in the middle of nowhere.

Post by **AntiM** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:45 am

1954 Utah box house, brick veneer over cinderblock construction, detached garage, huge backyard, looks like every other house on the block. Well, except for the nuked flamingos in the iris bed, and the head sculptures on the front porch, and the Reserved for Theme Camps sign we rescued from poaching yahoos. Oh, and the stained glass Burning Man in the front window.

The interior? Full basement, that's where the main living room is, three bedrooms, one of which is the sewing room/my closet. I've always accumulated things, and larry's nickname is PacRat, so yes, I/we have loads of schtuff. Tons of woodblock prints and japanese almost-antiques, and all the things from Iran and Saudi, and swords and all my geek action figures and dolls and pewter and depression glass, and shotglasses and pottery and miniatures and crystal and porcelain.

There's signs of Burning in every room of the house, right down to the Bad Art in the bathrooms. The kitchen table is my art studio, we eat at the edges. And of course, Bucky in the front room, and Bucky Jr. hanging in the basement hall, and the playachicken bandannas made into throw pillows in the guestroom, and well, the whole darn house.

In fact, enough interesting things to get a largely inaccurate article written up about us for Home Tours.

http://www.inthisweek.com/article_dev.asp?id=763

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:08 am

awesome article AntiM!!!

Well lets see...our house....We hold alot of the get togethers YEAR LONG, My house even pre-first burn was always artistically Burner. Random art on everywall. Thanks to Espresso Dude, I know have the most beautiful 2007 3'x 5' GreenMan poster next to fireplace that holds a canister of Playa dust. We keep a extra in kitchen for spicing summitt shots. As well as the 3x5' aireille shots of 3:00 plaza on my diningroom wall. with notes and velvet boobies, from the summitt.
Random art sculptures all over the place gifts from my Burning daughter, who is only 13 and hasnt gone yet, but attends our day building get togthers. 3 rooms 2 bath, One room which is largest is my sewing/craft room...used to have 2 rooms dedicated but when Titwi moved in we converted it into our office and bar. 3 storage sheds, 1 is completely 100% burn camp gear, 1 is tools and burners stuff the last is being shared with my mom, who needed extra space till she moves...can hardly wait till they get their house, already have plans to be able to pull the 15 boxes of costumes apart and have them on hangers in there!
The back yard 2 level, has room for the 7 tables we set up for burner stitch and bitchers that we host every weekend(started this weekend and runs till we leave!)
The campers is in the back yard next to the burner box, 4x4x4' huge box good for hauling out the 8 ice chest we take.
This spring will be good challange to set up the booby domes being built in the consumed space........

Petal of the Playa · Post by **Petal of the Playa** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:20 pm

Our home is pretty standard fare - but my home office is a burningman shrine filled with trinkets, costumes, wigs, photos and shoes...lots of shoes....

Zhust · Post by **Zhust** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:58 am

Dork wrote:I wonder, have all of you been doing your part?

Absolutely. I have been to Burning Man 3 years now and have begun to accept the term "Burner." I live in a home. It therefore looks like a Burner home and I beat the delusion out of anybody who says otherwise.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:04 am

Do I have a facinating career "burning" up people's houses in store?

Cause, darn, i could come drape fabric and necklaces and charge a couple thousand dollars...

Dork · Post by **Dork** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:24 am

theCryptofishist wrote:Do I have a facinating career "burning" up people's houses in store?

Cause, darn, i could come drape fabric and necklaces and charge a couple thousand dollars...

If you really could burn-up my house, and happened to live near me, I might be willing to pay. It would take more than a little fabric though.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:30 am

Oh you want the deluxe package with playa dust, don't you...

misfit · Post by **misfit** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:32 am

1920's bay area house with large back yard for building and spinning fire. inside has a wall with pics of 11 years of burns, one room filled with old schwinn ballon tire bikes dating back to 1939, another filled with projects for the burn, and the drive way lined with two vehicles playa ready. but at first glance, you may just think its a disorganized mess...

gaminwench · Post by **gaminwench** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 11:55 pm

a three and a half acre estate...twelve bedrooms... tennis court dedicated to burn projects- fire spinning weekly; art car construction May-August; many burn-type parties/events/gatherings/meetings year-round...Tudor to the MAX- music room, wine cellar, saunas & steam showers, RV parking( not period, but useful), hosting Gamelan Monkeys, musicians, fire performers, puppeteers, artists, artistes and Burners for the last seven years...there are always FREAKS crashing in my living room...!!!

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:08 am

can I come over gaminwench? I promise to be freaky!and green

pinemom · Post by **pinemom** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:09 am

..oh and I spin some good fire too...

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 6:41 am

Oooo! Can I come over, too?!? Please, gaminwench?

(Darn! I'm probably not freaky enough.... Maybe if I stop bathing or something....

)

B. (looking to move, but not to California! (too far))

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 7:30 am

Try Utah, the job market is good, fairly low cost of living, and all the Mormons you can mock. Plus we have a kick-ass regional.

BAS · Post by **BAS** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:28 am

AntiM wrote:Try Utah, the job market is good, fairly low cost of living, and all the Mormons you can mock. Plus we have a kick-ass regional.

Too many relatives! My Uncle Jim, his wife, and their six daughters are all Mormons. And all of his daughters have kids-- and I think six might be the average number of kids for the daughters...!

I've long since stopped trying to keep track, but I am fairly certain at least some of them are in Utah. (To be honest, most of them are in Kansas, last time I checked..., but I am fairly certain that I was told some of that crowd were in Utah.)

On my dad's side I have my Uncle Jim, who is a Mormon, and my Aunt Bette whose is a Baptist.... Supposedly, my parents are Unitarians, but we haven't been to church since the late 1960s, so maybe we now are considered agnostics or something.... (I'm pretty certain that they figure we are going to wind up in Hell!)

(On my mom's side there are more religions, but none as strict as either the Mormons or the Baptists!)

Anyway, I am actually still hopeful about eventually moving to the Madison, Wisconsin area. Right now I am planing on moving to my parents' place up in the Baraboo area for a time. (Maybe I will raid my dad's workshop while I am there! Might as well make the best of it....

)

B.

gaminwench · Post by **gaminwench** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:41 am

pinemom...c'mon! Bring your firetoys!
BAS-freak is so subjective, I'm sure you'll be fine with us...and maybe you'll find your 'inner freak'...don't stop bathing, though!!

Post by **Eric** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:43 pm

Thread and thread drift:

Thread: my house- I live in San Francisco: 1 bedroom Edwardian apartment (with faboo bay window, thankyouverymuch), my art & friends art on the walls, not so stereotype burner though. You would just think I was eclectic & be jealous of the friends I know who give me things.

Thread drift: Utah. My parents live in Utah (now, not when I was growing up). Lovely state, one of my favorites actually. I will die before living there however, since major urban living is my lifeblood. I am tempted about the regional however.....

And now I'm off to another cocktail prepared by the hot shirtless guest....

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 9:26 am

Eric wrote: And now I'm off to another cocktail prepared by the hot shirtless guest....

Don't suppose you'd send him my way when you're done having your way with him.

Post by **Eric** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:35 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:
Eric wrote: And now I'm off to another cocktail prepared by the hot shirtless guest....
Don't suppose you'd send him my way when you're done having your way with him.

Sorry. The hot red-headed Basque took away the hot shirtless cocktail making guest a bit later. Sadly he kept his shirt on (this time).

All for the better- I had to work today and we needed to make room for my boyfriend....

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:07 pm

Eric wrote:
theCryptofishist wrote:
Eric wrote: And now I'm off to another cocktail prepared by the hot shirtless guest....
Don't suppose you'd send him my way when you're done having your way with him.
Sorry. The hot red-headed Basque took away the hot shirtless cocktail making guest a bit later. Sadly he kept his shirt on (this time).

All for the better- I had to work today and we needed to make room for my boyfriend....

Well, thanks for the sexy soap opera to keep this lonely old widow interested in life.

; )

skygod · Post by **skygod** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:23 am

Hehe.
I live in a small employee garrot on the grounds of the State Mental Hospital, Agnews Developmental Center at which I have worked for 28 years.
One room and a bathroom, and a small balcony on which I sit, drink beer, smoke meat and wave at the inmates, er, patients who shout incomprehensibles at me from below.
I tell people I live in a "gated" community.

Lassen Forge · Post by **Lassen Forge** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:29 pm

Lessee... smallish 30's 2x1 bungalow, expanded in the 60's with (added on) walk in closets and a huge room in back (the "sun room") and again in the 80's with another huge room (the former owner's bedroom, now my partner's art studio and our guestroom - she was here from 1950 until she passed on and we moved in) next to that, so proly close to 3000 square. Like inheriting grandma's house. Cats in the yard, landscaped everywhere (no grass), paths and cool doodads everywhere you look. On a hill. Oh, and a workshop in the basement, with partial concrete, partial dirt floors.

The only thing missing is a huge shed inwhich to build art cars, and yard space (we're semi-urban). Oh, we left the cool hanging lamps (converted oil and swag) in the rooms, and the ugly green shag carpet in the sunroom. Oh, 2 chimneys. And a deck. View of the hills. Shall I go on??

Damn... I guess it *is* kinda burney, now that I think about it. Never really have before. Hmmm...

Did I mention, tho, I envy Pinemom's back yard? Now *there's* a burner's paradise!!!

bb

Teo del Fuego · Post by **Teo del Fuego** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:37 pm

story and a half cottage built in 1901 in a state of complete squalor. Floor boards being replaced in the kitchen, power tools litter the lower half. Three antique cruiser bikes and a pile of laundry so deep and compacted Exxon has asked to buy the drilling rights.

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