The Further Adventures of Delivery Guy! (With The Obligatory Architecture and Design Criticism)

I had just started my day at the sanding table when I got the news that I'd be heading out on a delivery. Just a local trip. This, as always, came as welcome news. So Driver Guy and I headed out on the road. This time, it was a local delivery, and not to some toney suburb. We were taking a truck full of kitchen cabinets to humble little Kintnersville. So off we headed, north on Route 611.

We turned off the highway onto a local road, and off the local road onto a backroad. We came around a bend and I saw it. A perfect little house. A nice ranch, probably built in the Sixties. Clean lines, a low roof. And whaddya know? We turned into the driveway.

It really was perfect. Set well off the road, in the woods. Single story. Beautiful stone and verticle redwood exterior. And following Frank Lloyd Wright's dictum, it was built half way up the hill, rather than on top.

Inside it was filled with light, with great views. The scale and size of the rooms was modest. It was minimal in its decoration. Flagstone foyer and oakfloors.

I was absolutely cheered and delighted to learn that houses like this were to be found in the farther reaches of Bucks County.

But then we started to unload our cabinets. They were beautiful. Flawlessly built and finished. No expense had been spared. And they were wrong. *sigh* Mahogany with a dark finish. Elaborated with beadwork and what's known as dental crown moulding.

No no no no no no no. No.

Not for that house. I started to look with pity on the sweet couple who lived there. They didn't realize what a gem they had. And they were spending a fortune on cabinets that should have been going into some other house. Any other house.

Anyway.

After we made the delivery, which went smoothly, Driver Guy and I spent the whole day on the road, dropping off stuff for another job. The other job was a lot of fun. A young woman, seven months pregnant, was getting her dream kitchen. And I approved. It was a good kitchen.

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