I just ran across this local blog, “Foam Core Fantasy.” I discovered it because the author (who goes by Cyndy) sometimes comments on Scenic Wheaton’s blog. (My running joke about the difference between my own Wheaton blog and “Scenic Wheaton” is that mine could easily be titled “Splenic Wheaton.”)
When I first saw the phrase “Foam Core Fantasy,” it struck me as an excellent name for a band. The band’s sound would be something like mildly spacey effects-heavy synth pop backed with hair metal guitar.
Like some unholy fusion of Esqu¡vel, Erasure, Pet Sh0p Boys, Def Leppard, and Poison, maybe.
It turns out that the foam core in question actually describes something along the lines of engineered pre-fab construction panels with extraordinary R-values.
I have no idea where the foam core blogger’s house is located or even whether it’s in Montgomery County, for that matter. A few of the exterior photos suggest some semi-rural suburban gentrification haven like Olney or Burtonsville. The house pictured exudes a sort of 21st-century farmhouse exurban boho chic.
I’ve stumbled across other similar blogs while searching for home improvement keywords and FCF falls under what I might call the “home remodeling fetish” blog genre.
Due to our current circumstances, I personally favor the “Xtreme DIY” blogs that get into the nuts and bolts of home improvement materials and practices. The XDIY blogs are good sources of know-how and inspiration for people who can’t (stand to) pay other people to perform improvement & reconstruction work for them.
Anyways, the FCF blog inspires me to put more home “improvement” stuff up here in this sprawling blogspace, once the spouse and I get back into the low-budget demolition & seat-of-our-pants “design-build” renovation work later this spring.
More pictures + less blogorrhea == less echo-chamber diarist blogging
(I was originally going to embed a video of “If I were a carpenter” in this post. Ultimately, I just couldn’t bring myself to inflict any of the cheesy versions of that song on the few hapless souls who stumble on this junk heap of blogging damage.)
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So what are you going to do? The typical Wheaton ranch offers all sorts of options, the nicer colonials less so, but are nicer to start with.
And thats not even including all the illegal internal sub-division you can do to make a little apartment complex all your own.
Hey thanks for visiting Foam Core Fantasyland. I ran across this post from one of your comments on Scenic Wheaton's blog too! I loved your description of our house. The band reference is funny because we are both musicians - mostly jazz though. I named the blog Foam Core Fantasy for sarcastic reasons which might not be all that difficult to figure out. Maybe we'll actually get to move back home one of these years.
Best wishes for your own renovations. I feel your pain!
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