Home Improvement

2004 I resolve to make more mistakes. I had this potrack when I moved in six months ago. Yet I avoided hanging it for varied (stupid) reasons.

1. For one, it was not the perfect potrack. Since this kitchen is so small, I needed a bigger, rectangular-shaped potrack. With the perfect rack, pots could hang from the bottom aannd pans could be stacked on top.

2. Another excuse: if I hung the existing, inadequate potrack then replaced it with the shiny, perfect potrack, the holes from the first potrack would be exposed.

When I moved out of my old place, my mother, who "helped" me pack, asked me not to mess up the new place by hanging art on the walls then changing my mind and moving it, leaving ugly, exposed holes of indecision in its path. It was this line of thinking that left the perfectly adequate potrack taking up space on my shelf, and pots and pans cluttering up my stovetop. It was this kind of thinking that kept me out of the kitchen.

Hanging the potrack was liberating: it not only cleared the stovetop, it framed the stove area. It is an inviting little space. And this project was inspired by an article about Software Entreprenuers: Make more mistakes. In the home, I resolve to leave more holes, experiment, move things around. At work, I resolve to make more mistakes, try things that may not work, make more messes and have some fun.

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