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HP: then (pause) where does this skill of yours come from? The know-how?
T: I don’t have skills, instead, I have a firm belief in myself. And, yeah, I was
involved in building my brother’s house last summer, and I realised that,
like so many other things (pause) these are human inventions, one can
do them by oneself. Of course something like the rendering the chimney,
you need a professional to do it but now that I’ve seen how it’s done, I’m
sure I’ll build a barbeque over there at some point. (Theo 04 97-102)
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Theo did not design and craft the products; rather, he bought or found the
products and materials. He was acting as a hunter rather than a craftsman.
He also did not appear to be interested in changing the interior decoration,
for example, seasonally. Instead, the products moved around, looking for their
final destinations while the interior decoration within the home was still in
progress.
T: There’s not been any self-evident location for any of the objects. We
have a habit of moving lamps, even like these [chandeliers], from one
place to another. That’s one thing. For that reason it’s a bit difficult to
say what might be the kind of object that would not have found its
place. Here it’s, one could say that we haven’t yet created that certain
initial situation, which we would, then, start to modify.
HP: do you mean that in actual practice you might sit here and think that,
wait, that chandelier could be much better (pause)
T: yes. And then we move it and check if it’s better somewhere else, and
we put it back it here, or not. (Theo 05 191-199)
Despite the huge amount of work, the project progressed quickly. One means
by which Theo had kept his desire to relax at bay was by organising the work.
The couple had consciously started with the downstairs (which was at that
point nearly finished) because the downstairs had been designed to entertain
visitors. Only after it was ready, had they started to work on the upstairs, which
was going to be a huge, one-room home theatre with the latest entertainment
technologies and comfortable sofas.
T: Since it was our aim for it to look old over there, downstairs, so this
here [upstairs] is going to be the actual living room where we’ll have
all the sofas and such, where you can just relax and fall asleep and,
yeah, all that audiovisual gear will be here, there’s everything [wires
and cables in the ceiling] ready for that. (Theo 05 123-126)