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Yes

Friday, May 29th, 2009


I think I want this.

MASKROS – please come to the USA soon. I’m tired of waiting to see you in person.


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“Super Design“

I’m not sure if when I see it in person I will think it looks too “whimsical” and turn me off completely or if I will love the complicated delicate globe.

Everyone around the blog-o-sphere (I hate that term)* has been hyping this IKEA PS line for soooo long. I just want to see it! I’m worried that this light might just scream IKEA and be everywhere…

On that note, a little story.

I had a cop come into my house (don’t ask) and Officer Snodgrass (seriously) said, “Someone sure likes Ikea” the minute she walked in the front door. The thing is – there was only 1 item from Ikea in the whole house and it was the Stockholm Rand Rug which does scream Ikea. Like all that time I spent vintage hunting and scouring California for reasonably priced MCM furniture boiled down to it ALL being “from Ikea”. Just because of that one giant rug.

Thats why I want to replace it.

* to clarify: I also hate random parenthesis – but I still do it. I know I’m a stupid hypocrite.

FILED UNDER: decorating, ikea, inspiration

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Thrifty Art!

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

I went out thrifting in Temecula this weekend and picked up a few small things – one being this ambiguously sexed reclining nude watercolor addition to my collection of thrift store art.



I love the simple black frame and washy background as well as the delicate rendering. I installed it on the wainscoting that encircles the den in order to balance out the little vignette happening on the tension pole wall unit. Ooooh vignette layering, I’m feeling so fancy!

The Boy freaked out when I started hammering a nail in the paneling…he was like “what are you DOING! You can’t make HOLES in the wainscoting”. Which sounded like the silliest thing to yell..wainscoting. What a weird word.

There are all sorts of giant knots and ragged holes in the crappy pine paneling so this little finish nail isn’t our biggest worry. He’s right though – I tend to take down and move paintings almost every week. I do make and patch a lot of holes.

It takes courage to be fabulous…or to make your house look like swiss cheese.

FILED UNDER: art, decorating, thrifty

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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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