People who really value their outdoor time end up with outdoor stuff that they appreciate as much as anything else in their life. They might even think it looks good. So why keep a good thing under wraps?
I know some of my readers like to integrate their life, loves and living as much as I do and that they’ve come up with nifty solutions to show their pride.
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I’d really like to see a high ceiling with a couple boats up there. And a kitchen with a proper gunrack. And a nice bike on the wall in a livingroom.
Of course when people are young and broke they often live in one room with everything. That can be cool. I once saw a case where it pretty much was out of hand, but it was still cool: they were bike racers and their living room really did look like a bikeshop. I think this couple had 8 high-end bikes in their one-room apartment, with cat, desk and computer and always-churning smoothy- and hummus-maker.
When I was single, I kept my boats, bikes, skis, firearms so I could see them all the time.
I once had a purple and kevlar downriver kayak on my ceiling, over the light, so the light shined thru.
In our early days of marriage in our cottage-house I put up a sportrack in the living room that I stocked with goodies that I thought represented the good life.
Since I work fast’n’dirty, it was made of 2x4s with spikes in it. To me the important thing was to see the good stuff. I put up a longbow, a .22 rifle with nice butternut stock, a wood XC ski, a wood-laminate kayak paddle, a bamboo flyrod. Just a few reminders. Martha thought they were nice and appropriate, but the rack itself too primitive.
Since then other artwork has replaced all that—except for my books. Heck, I even want more outdoor sport art to go up front in the house, darn it. Right now, only our garage and my workshop have the proper style. But, uh, they’re not right for entertaining.
Martha says she’s open to the idea of a new, better sportrack if we ever put an addition on, to turn our cottage into more of a house—I think even a porch would qualify for her—we really want a porch someday. Someday…
