Archive for 2009

Balls

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009



I picked up a set of vintage pool balls at the thrift store for $5. The set is missing the nine ball which means that all my hopes are dashed for a retro style pool bash. The full set of the balls won’t fit in my glass dish…

Balls. Hehe.

Iggy likes them. He won’t stop licking them.

Giveaway!

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Do you like free stuff? I know I do.

All Modern is offering you sexy readers an opportunity to win four FREE tea towels from ferm LIVING.

So how do you you enter to win?

Comment on this post and choose your favorite color/pattern you’d like to take home (I’d love four of those yellow kitchen towels pictured above!)

Sorry international folks the giveaway is limited to readers in the U.S. and Canada only.



Requisite blurb:

All Modern has a fantastic selection of modern furniture and home accessories from many leading designers. Part of CSN Stores, All Modern is just one of over 260 retail sites that offer a diverse array of products from Herman Miller’s popular Aeron Chair to cookware by Rachael Ray.

The winner will be randomly selected this Friday. Hooray!
*Pretty please make sure I’ve got a way to contact you…or else I’m keeping them.


**UPDATE: The giveaway is now closed – we have a WINNER!


Vignette

Friday, July 31st, 2009

The dining room hutch vignette got some updating in honor of the freshly installed dining room chairs.

I pulled together some of my vintage ceramic collection comprised of muted tones to play off the parchment color of the Eames chairs, the warm teak of the dining table/hutch and amber tones of the vintage Danish ceiling light.

The dining room is now very monochromatic and pulled together in a minimalist style that I’m usually not very comfortable with…like neutral and rustic or something. Those words would have NEVER described my design sensibilities in my head – but I hope that it all turned out looking surprisingly sophisticated.

I’m not a huge fan of taupe, beige or the typically ascribed go-to safe neutral colors, but recently I’ve been digging a more subtle and minimal pallet. I’d still love to find a GIANT Bumling light in red or some bold color to really make a big impact above the table.

I’m dubbing the dining room: AKA Brown Town. For now…till it changes again, as it always does.

Oh god, I just went back in the archives to see what the dining room used to look like when we first moved in. Yuck, what a hot mess.