This would be my entire objective if I was a contractor -- to talk homeowners into horrible, horrible decisions by convincing them said decisions actually represent the bleeding edge of aesthetic design. Sure, unfinished and unpainted OSB walls are a good start, but that's just child's play. I'm talking a bathroom full of perfectly laid tile, but no grout, because exposing the gaps between the tiles is acknowledging the fact that all homes have gaps, just as we all have gaps inside ourselves -- gaps in memory, gaps in knowledge, gaps in experience. Face plates over switches and sockets? Why would you do that, when it denies you the daily recognition of the underlying wires that make technology such as electricity possible? Why would one choose to live in such deliberate daily ignorance? In fact, why even hide wires at all? They should be celebrated, used as decoration, draped ceremoniously from the ceiling as they move from plug to switch to plug. Obviously, pipes should be treated the same way. Relegating pipes to the darkness, to the hidden spaces behind walls, is like building a wall around the poor and working class of the community so that you can pretend that they do not exist there, that they serve no recognizable purpose. What an awful approach to life.

Why pay thousands of dollars to install a so-called "rainshower" in your bathroom when, for barely any cost at all, you can just cut a hole in your roof and allow actual rain to actually fall in your actual shower? Why pay thousands of dollars for a "cooktop" when you could build a beautiful brick firepit as your kitchen's centerpiece and cook everything there? Why pay for air conditioning when you can simply not install any windows and let the fresh air blow free through your home? Instead of wall-to-wall carpet, why not lay strategic paths of towels on the bare subfloor throughout the house, both to guide you and your guests from point to point but also to give you the opportunity to change on a daily basis how traffic flows through your home? Ladders instead of stairs. Straw bales instead of beds. The possibilities are endless. Let Pocket Ninja Construction bring your aesthetic dreams to life.

And that's still just getting started.