Another open-air garden of Japanese maples and crushed limestone pebbles is visible through a glass wall at the kitchen's far end — beyond a wall of cupboards made of pressed wood wrapped in black vinyl that conceal an Electrolux refrigerator and freezer.
The 27-year-old migrant worker from Sindhuli district, Nepal, had travelled to Malaysia on the promise of a salary more than double what he could ever hope to earn at home, but the contents of the cupboard made him afraid.
At Sumpter Priddy III of Alexandria, Va., a tall corner cupboard made in Virginia around 1800 takes pride of place.
It's got the lot: scum-coated bathroom, cupboards matted in grime, food made of solid mould.
In Connecticut, his workers made the paneling, cabinets, corner cupboards, even a curving staircase made of mahogany, using antique oak and 6,500 square feet of antique pine.
Their house in Mexico had been made of concrete block, but the beams and counters and cupboards had been made of cedarwood.
Two beds, a cupboard, a small carpet, a print on one wall, a mirror, a green sofa, a low coffee table made of synthetic wood, a lamp.
Five thousand photographs, numerous unpublished writings and 650 tapes he made of music and conversations with friends and fellow musicians were found in his closets and cupboards.
Yes: all of the bathrooms in this flat, of which there are two, inexplicably – and two separate shower rooms, this flat is filled with tiled cupboards – are made up of a toilet/sink combo in a prison-sized unit with possibly space for a bin.
Even these are prepared by his 15-year-old sister, Claudia, who takes the supplies from a kind of cupboard they made behind a poster in the tent.
