My Inspiration at the Moment

My appraisal came back today; thankfully, there was no major hiccups in the appraisal. The market came back as ' stable market' therefore there will be no need to throw an extra 5% into the down payment. There were a couple interesting things that the appraisal noted:
-My unit is #907, I'm on the 9th floor of an 11 story building
-There are 95 units, of which 10 are rented, and 27 are owner occupied, the rest are owned by the developer. The rule of thumb is that property values are higher when more units are owner occupied.
-Unit #807, exactly 1 floor below me, sold for $4,950 more than my unit. #1007 (one floor above) is listed for $5,000 more than my unit. This makes me feel good, as I got a good view and paid less for it than the guys immediately above and below me. Suckas.

I did receive a bit of bad news, it appears my loan won't be ready on Friday as anticipated, therefore the new closing date will be next Wednesday. Ugh! The delay kills me.

Without further delay, my inspiration for the week

"A Bigger Splash" by David Hockney. This is a great pop art painting, note the contrasting lateral blues punctuated by the diving board and the rectangular mid-century style house. I'm thinking that this concept (color/ shape contrast) can be applied to my unit. I'll discuss this further at a later date.

"Composition with Red, Blue, Yellow" by Piet Mondrain. Mondrain was one of the founders of 'De Stijl' (Dutch for 'The Style'). Which, of course, was one of the precursors of Modernism. I enjoy the contrast of white space/ heavy black lines/ primary colors, it's as simple as you can get.

"Counter-Composition V" by Theo Van Doesberg, this is one of the 'Hard Edged' painting from the 50's and 60's, a distinctly California based style. It's a more interesting take on Mondrain's work.

"L'Oiseau Dans L'espace" by Constantin Brancusi. Bird in Space is *by far* by favorite sculpture (you can actually go see it at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena). The purity of the form of the bird is amazing; it's as if Brancusi took a bird and stripped it of all it's unnecessary and extraneous shapes. The bird looks like it is in the midst of some lighting take off, effortless, sprezzatura! The picture doesn't do the sculpture justice, the real thing is 6' tall on a 4' pedestal set in the middle of an ocular room, thus giving it even more of an effortless purity.