Ever felt the need to spend $4,400 for verbal judo lessons, $13,000 for a few fancy doors, or $20,000 for an emergency shipment of female condoms?
On residential streets, houses displayed new roofs, renovated porches, bigger windows, fancier doors; in outlying neighborhoods, empty tracts of land blossomed with medical buildings, supermarkets, family restaurants.
"Now they're guided by product catalog: they pick out the fanciest windows by Pella, the fanciest doors from Marvin, the fanciest columns from that fancy column place and the fanciest garage doors from the fancy garage door place, so the parts go together in no particular order".
Some of the old tenants remain, and their battered doors form a distinct contrast with the newer, fancier doors of the renovated rooms.
Many people do it via a fancy front door.
ELLEN LEVINE moved her company into a new building a few weeks back, and when she tried to close the fancy double doors to her office, they kept jamming.
No doubt they've been dissuaded by the fancy new cat door we put in.
When he sought permission to install what he described as "a fancy stainless garage door," the board decided it might make the co-op look like a manufacturing building instead of an office building, and detract from its value.
He runs a fancier school next door, decorated with images of Mickey Mouse.
If you are hungry and feeling a bit fancy, walk two doors to the left.
