Late on Friday I got company in the form of one woman and one cat, who is Cybelle, since renamed Lexi.

Before that: intense enjoyable moments contemplating the mundane.

In this rental, there’s a kitchen. The kitchen is mostly full of the landlady’s stuff, and that needs to change some to make room for my own minimalist kit. There’s no point in plugging in my electric kettle next to hers, for example.

I got an idea from a small box I brought that only has the foodstuffs for making my curries in it (except the rice, which is a generic staple).

I think that instead of building in to my new house a full set of countertops, and pantries, and cupboards, I’m going to make the whole business portable and flexible.

So for example, instead of cupboards for things like the curry kit, I’ll get a few more chrome racks that allow the user to vary the shelf height.

And on those shelves, I can slot boxes-as-drawers. Maybe even just plain cardboard boxes, but probably something a little more sturdy and pretty.

And then in the trailer-camper, there will be a space for exactly the same rack-and-drawer system. If I’m feeling super minimalist, I can even dual-purpose the chrome racks, and slot them in from the house kitchen to the camp kitchen and back again after trips.

Or, more plausibly, I could just duplicate identical racks, and just pack for a trip by moving the full drawers from the full stable kitchen to the mobile one.

The same system could be applied to most kitchen and bathroom and bedroom and closet kinds of things.

I think it’ll save on a lot of duplication and unnecessary redundancy of both perishables and durable goods.

I’m going to start thinking and living and buying that way.

It’s not a big revelatory deal, maybe, but I think it has a lot of potential and it pleases my aesthetic.

Modularity. Sometimes the cast iron pan heats over a steady normal blue gas flame, but sometimes the same pan cooks the same things over a glowing bed of coals.

Like that.