bookmark_borderHelp me in my quest…

I need something so simple and yet impossible to find — 1/2′” rubber leg tips.

They look just like this.

You’d think any local hardware store would carry these but you would be wrong. I have been to several and I am at the end of my rope. It’s easy to find 1/2′” inch PLASTIC tips or larger rubber tips — the 5/8″ or 1″ sizes are very plentiful for example. But plastic is no good to me! It must be rubber.

I did find one package (of 4) in Chinatown today — the store clerk said there were no more to be found. That made me so very bitter. So close but screwed in the end. I need 24 rubber tips and ideally I would like to buy them all at the same store.

A very design-savvy friend suggested friend Richelieu Hardware and I have high hopes that his idea will bear fruit. He knows his stuff.

As far as I could tell, their website doesn’t have any online but they may have what I want at the retail location. I think a trip is in order. And I will go this weekend (I will walk if I have to) and demand rubber tips from the first sales person I see…unless anyone has a better idea about where I can get these.

Anyone?

bookmark_borderWe can see you…

Long-time readers may recall that many of the units in the new condo are very small.

So small your bed is in the kitchen.

Not only does this mean there are young people in the lobby with skateboards (newbies on the property ladder and their fashion forward friends is my guess) but it also means that you can see entire units from the windows across the street.

Blinds are paramount unless one is an exhibitionist.

And apparently some of my neighbours are. There is a hand-made sign in one of the windows in the building across the way.

It says: Get curtains we can see you.

Alas, privacy is not the price of a new skateboard away. Curtains (which can be had cheap) are against the condo rules. Only (not so cheap) roller blinds are permitted.