Content notes for "The Unbearable Clarity of Lost Things"

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here are the content notes for "The Unbearable Clarity of Lost Things."


Many types of furniture damage can be fixed with simple repairs. This is more common in Terramagne than here, where people prefer to minimize waste. Hence putting out the truly shattered items as free salvage in case anyone wants to try more elaborate repairs or upcycling.  As a business, repairing or upcycling broken furniture has the advantage that you can get the stuff free or cheap, fix it, then sell it for considerably more.  If you're willing to haul away junk, you can even make money doing that!

Kylemore's end tables are hunter green with natural wood tops and drawer pulls. The matching desk has the same colors.

Kylemore's chair is painted a muted olive touched with gold leaf in places. It has a painting of a farmhouse on the back, and the seat is caned.

These are the two spindle chairs repaired with acrylic. This is the oval-back chair. Here is the headboard.

Birdseye maple is not a species, but rather a variation in sugar maple; the exact cause is unknown although various reasons have been proposed.

Vermont experiences many thunderstorms in spring, sometimes with damaging winds.

Comments

[mdlbear]

I love the acrylic repairs -- brilliant!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I found them so striking that they inspired this poem. It's the perfect upcycling technique for a traumatic past. It won't appeal to everyone, but will to the ones who feel erased and need to externalized their losses. Spacers would love it too. Waste nothing.