Four years ago, I became a dad and bought an old apartment with my girlfriend. Since we didn’t have a lot of money to renovate the apartment, which was in bad shape, I had to roll up one’s sleeves and learn to do the work, renovation and paintings to transform this place that would become our family home.
My grandfather gave me his old gloves and brought out some old tools from his workshop for me (I’m still not sure I understand how his multimeter at the top left works), and I gradually bought a few additional tools. The color yellow is very present in the DIY equipment, and I am very attached to these tools and their aesthetic (when we had to buy a vacuum cleaner, I fell in love with the one from Karcher that you see at the top right, and its removable battery at the bottom left).
The pasta is a little reference to the types of phrases my girlfriend and I often said during the renovations in which we put all our savings, “we’re going to have to eat pasta for a while, but it’s worth it.” All these objects form a very good memory and an important stage of my life that I will never forget.
And banana is for scale, of course.
