Bedroom

September 14th, 2009

Ronda from All the Best emailed me to invite me to enter a contest she was putting together that pitted bedroom against bedroom, by amateur and designer alike. This Best Bedroom Decorating Contest judges include: Ronda Carman, Michael Devine, Amanda Nesbit, Todd Romano, Nathan Turner, Kelly Wearstler and Vicente Wolf.

If Vincente Wolf and Kelly Wearstler just somehow got the urge to hire me to go around the world sourcing vintage, whats the harm in entering? A girl can unreasonably dream, right?

I thought first off JEEEZ, I’m not going to be able to compete against real designers with real budgets with my shitty Ikea sheets and tiny little bedroom. I mean, I could really be embarrassed….

You know what, FUCK IT. I ‘m going to try to enter my little bedroom, but I’m going to pull things from every other room that I LOVE LOVE LOVE and design my bedroom with shit around the house. I thought it could be fun, like my house is a store and I’ll just go shopping. Oh god isn’t that like a horrible show on HGTV? Redesign or something…

My bedroom is at the mid point of redesign. It’s not that much different, not really finished though…

Any suggestions about how real designers make things look fancy? Oh man, I want to be fancy real bad.

You should enter to! Come on, look at the cool judges and fancy prizes. You know your stuff would be better than all the stuff on Design Star or even most the things on Top Design. I do miss hearing Jonathan Adler awkwardly say “See you later decorator”.

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Pendants

September 11th, 2009

Almost half a year ago I picked up this pair of trashed bubble lamps. A dealer I had been bartering with pulled them out of a house in Orange County and proceeded to poke holes in them accidentally on the trip home. They were smoke stained, beat-up and sort of wilting in his garage storage; but I thought they were pretty rad. He didn’t think he could sell them in their terrible condition so he let me take them for free and try my hand at restoring them.

Well, they never got restored. I had BIG plans, and the lamps sat and sat and sat.

I started to enjoy the weird color and tattered vintage quality. It’s what The Boy likes to say when I bring thrashed stuff home or we accidentally break something, “its character”.

For $36 I bought I couple of pendant cord kits and decided to wire them up, flaws and all.

We installed them in the master bedroom hovering over each nightstand. Lighting around the bed has been consistently on my mind and I think this pair is a good fit, especially with the glam ceiling fixture.

Now I just need to style up those nightstands…

FILED UNDER: after, bedroom, before, decorating, DIY, lighting, vintage

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Ikea

September 11th, 2009

I am addicted to finding the right linens for the master bedroom, but I fail time and time again. The process of how to dress a bed that looks inviting and casual is a huge mystery to me. I can’t seem to get that right look and have gone through numerous sets of duvets in search of it.

Ikea sucked me in yet again promising that the BLÅSIPPA dark gray duvet would solve all my bedroom issues.

The BLÅSIPPA turned out to be a dog drool magnet. Iggy DROOLS like crazy for a little tiny dog and was super offended that I woke him up to make the bed for a couple of shots.

I tried to grab a shot of his drool puddle before it dried but failed. This pic doesn’t really do justice to the size and quantity he left.

The gray of the BLÅSIPPA is nice but has a bit of a sheen and purple undertone that isn’t working out the way I hoped. So the hunt will continue for something more along these lines…


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