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Ghetto

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

So whats this mess? Oh, just another ghetto solution at the Brick House.

When I was laying out the new kilim I was reminded of the stupidity of it.

SERIOUSLY cable guys? This is your solution for the cable going into the den? You drilled through the living room hardwood floor and ran it through the closet and the built in desk like 10 feet instead of installing it in the DEN.



The black arrow marks where the den cable comes out of the the living room floor (because – of course thats where it should be). Its just sort of randomly placed and is a constant eyesore.

Add this to the long list of shoddy ghetto solutions that the “previous owners” left for us the “new owners” to amend. One day I hope to crawl under the house and have this whole place cabled correctly. Ugh, spiders. Yuck.

That is probably why I’ve put it off for over a year.

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Priming

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

We spent the weekend trying to finish up the exterior priming of the house. Its like entering the fifth level of hell getting the primer in all the cement nooks and crannies. At least the house will finally be sealed! No more water weeping in and screwing up the interior plaster.

We still have this side of the house to do (first the weeds need to be cut down) and parts of the garage. Then we can get to the actual painting of a color besides blinding white primer. Hooray…I guess…

I’m very tired of painting at this point.

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New couch

Thursday, May 21st, 2009


Maybe you noticed there was a lovely new very white addition to the den…yes, I can’t deny it. It’s a new (old) couch.

A few months ago my friend and mid century partner in crime Maya emailed me this phone pic of a sofa that was going to be tossed out. I loved the lines and the tufted detail, but the upholstery was being held together by duct tape and springs were popping out of the seat.

But the frame was so RAD.

I was owed a sofa by a friendly dealer who had acquired a bunch of my vintage treasures in a bartering deal. So we emailed the pic to him and he went and saved the sofa from being garbage. It was taken to his upholsterer and redone in a very high end white vinyl. Its soft, durable, and wipes clean with a sponge!

I love it. I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out, and I’m glad we saved a really great sofa from being trash.

It really lightens up the dark and dreary den and is bigger than the EQ3 sofa which turned out to be too dark and too small for two folks that like to stretch out and watch TV.

Iggy likes to hang out it as well.

All in all it cost me many many pieces of vintage furniture / lighting and $52 in fabric that was not covered in the deal. I removed some clutter that didn’t fit in the house and saved a sofa I really love in return.

Sweet!

FILED UNDER: after, before, decorating, den

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