Archive for 2009

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Friday, November 13th, 2009



Painter’s Chair.
Why? WHY? WHHHHHHYYYYYY!!!

Urban Outfitters, why do you always screw up anything that has the slightest possibility of being rad? Really? Fake paint splatters? On this Arne Norell chair knock-off! Really? REALLY?

I haven’t felt this much spite and hatred since I spotted the Old Navy Women’s “The Flirt” Paint-Splatter Boot-Cut Jeans. And yeah, I was at Old Navy this weekend, that’s how I f*ing roll.

I’m not an authenticity snob or anything, I love a good knock-off, but for some reason this “paint splatter” thing really grinds my gonads.

Urban Outfitters can take things a step too far into some horrible hipster downward spiral of douche baggery. The thing is, I sometimes kind of like some of their things, but this Painter’s Chair is just killing me. I might have loved the chair if it was paint free…but still, at $235 I seriously would never have bought it. Have you seen UO’s quality? Awful. Come to think of it I’ve never really bought any home goods at the big UO because it’s always sort of overpriced and bad quality. But sunglasses? On sale? Hell yes.

Good god, I still want a Safari chair ssssssooooo bad. I’d even take a knock-off if the price was right (and if it didn’t have douchey paint splatters).

Thrifty!

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

This weekend I took a pretty quick and dirty thrifting trip to all my local fav spots. Mostly I saw rows and rows of disappointing Christmas decor. I so despise how retail and thrift stores alike are already pushing Christmas (my least favorite time of year – bah humbug).

I managed to grab a Danish ottoman – which is marked, but the stamp is pretty faded. All I can make out is “M__E _N __MARK” and a circle logo with the work “Danish” in it. It’s really nice, but just sort of floating around the house without an official spot.

Also, I picked up another piece of studio pottery. I CAN NOT BE STOPPED.

Guest Bedroom: The Run Down

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009


(AFTER)


(BEFORE) (like really before before, shot during our inspection)

The RUN DOWN

After we painted and reconstructed the guest bedroom wall it was time to style it all up. I bought two new things for the guest bedroom decorating extravaganza:

1. Enje white roller shades (3) from Ikea
2. White jersey sheets (on sale for $12.50!) at Target

Otherwise, everything else was lying around the house that we needed to decorate this bitch up. And I think I can prove it…

Hey, it’s the guest bedroom credenza hiding back behind the couch so very long ago. We bought this piece years before we ever moved to The Brick House. If memory serves it was found at a Salvation Army and was $60.

Wow, a really eye jarringly ugly and old version of the master bedroom. The Malou Ikea duvet set is now gracing the guest bed and the Ikea Vinstra bed frame was our first ever bed frame we owned.

The Ikea Jorun blanket is still a favorite.

One of my $50 Craigslist cowhides is cozying up the floors.

My first butterfly chair picked up at Angel View Thrift in Palm Springs.

The $40 Craigslist sputnik chandelier.

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The $50 ebay brass Laurel lamp.

My free bubble lamp pendants.

Ahhhh, Connie. I freed you of that horrid frame.
The kilim art is a painting as well…

I was going through all the old posts to find the pieces that ended up in the guest bedroom and realized that I never ever posted about this pair of tables I picked up. I found them months ago at a roadside estate sale and immediately shoved them into the guest bedroom where they languished away under piles of crap. Marked Lyon – Made in Denmark, they are teak and cost $50 for the pair.

Still to do:

-Closet door handles (custom)
-TV, Ugh.
-Alarm clock
-Headboard