21st May. Modernisation: an Up to the Minute View

Back at 18 Reutevennan Str. Supposedly work is "coming on" and "there's not much to do now". Roughly translated, this means; when will it ever be finished?
As fashions change so does the concept of modernisation. What was considered thoroughly modern in Stalinist Russia may now be thought of as a little old hat.
Nowadays the fashion seems to be to remove most of the interior doors, then paint everything either white or magnolia, apart from one or two "feature walls" which, through some species of optical illusion, have a tardis-like effect on the interior of any flat.
Part of today's duties included the complete destruction of a previous, but now dated, built-in cupboard, an improvement of the early 1970's. This time could be fixed by the imperial sections of softwood, the use of slotted screws and the quality of plywood. The rainforests that went into this era of laminated board have long since vanished, along with the complex ecosystem once supported by their canopy. That's the way The World is though, and it's a very different world that these cupboard components re-emerged into on their brief journey to a final resting place in the landfill at Binn Farm... Still, a thing of beauty is a joy for, well, in this case no more than 30 years?...