It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Huey becomes Pisth

It's pretty obvious "Huey" lives on a different planet. So his cartoon-character name no longer fits the brief.

Now, there are a couple of different ways to address the naming challenge. Announce a competition to come up with the most ridiculous name, or just pick a name at random.

The new one is a tribute to one of the characters in Aristophanes' play, The Birds.

Pisthetairos, or Pisth to friends, helped create Cloudcuckooland. "Pisth" may not have been born in Cloudcuckooland but I'm pretty sure the Romans would have embraced him as an extraordinary citizen. The fact the name rhymes with several other appropriate terms is an added bonus.