JANUARY 2017 I BOROMAG.COM 47 “You have a collection for everything!” Kaiser quipped. Art covers the walls, and I asked Rabkin and Kaiser where they managed to find such interesting frames to display their collection. “We picked up the gold frames from a thrift store on Steinway Street,” Rabkin explained. “I don’t know if you’ve ever been there, but it’s the jankiest street,” Kaiser interjected. “You can find anything you want on it.” As well as finding art, Kaiser and Rabkin create their own art, too. Above the stairs hangs a beautiful geometric painting. When I enquired about it, Rabkin told me that Kaiser had painted it. “I get stuff stuck in my head and I feel the need to put it down on paper sometimes,” Kaiser mused. In the bedroom hangs a portrait that Kaiser painted of Rabkin. “I wasn’t too pleased with it, so I hung it upside down,” Kaiser said. “I think it looks better that way.” Food and drink is another theme that you begin to see as you enter the kitchen. Even their Christmas tree was decorated with donut and bacon ornaments! “The kitchen has a lot of doughnuts,” Rabkin said, and that’s definitely true — a large print of colorful doughnuts is the kitchen’s artistic centerpiece. She framed takeout boxes that most people would just toss, and it works! “I actually saved the box from Voodoo Doughnut in Portland, Oregon, and framed it,” she said of a fun, pink piece in a detailed gold frame. “I also framed a pizza box from Milkflower in Astoria.” Rabkin and Kaiser seem to see the beauty in the everyday.
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