The living room has been getting a bit of a boost this past week with that orange chair and painting.
We really haven’t done anything to the room in 2 years.
When the bf and I moved in together he had 1/2 the living room covered (electronics and neat boxy Korean chests that they sit on). My mom let us have her old glass top coffee table from her ultra mod apartment in the 70s. She also gave us the dark green sofa she got for the computer room at her house since it never really got used.
The coffee table is too small and has no storage. It’s constantly cluttered.
The sofa just isn’t our style. I tried a chocolate microsuede slipcover but it was a major pain in the ass.
A friend of ours who just got a job at a nice furniture store came by last night. She has access to tons of catalogs and took some measurements. We talked about what we’re looking for and learned about durable easy-clean leather and all sorts of furniture biz stuff.
We want something in this style (this one’s from LaDiff) without the LaDiff price and hopefully in a cream leather. Honestly, this may take a while to save up for if she can’t hook us up with a killer deal.
We also ordered a coffee table from Overstock last night:
The coffee table we have will end up being the side table to the orange chair I got, until we find something fantastic.
This little table is killing me:
I’m also digging this for a cheap fix:
So that’s how I spent my evening last night, agonizing over the living room.
Oh! I also got to take a pit bull for a run around the neighborhood. I lived with one for a year and a ton of my friends have had them and still rescue them. They’re wonderful and get such a bum rap. If I had I dog, I would be in the best shape ever. There’s something magical about running with one, keeping up so the leash is slack. Sigh.
Such a good dog. There’s a small corner of our current coffee table!
There are murky recesses in my heart that long for a dark opulent morbidly rococo home, one reminiscent of a Tarsem Singh movie, Cher’s old decor catalog, with a touch of brutalism. Being surrounded by antiques my entire life and my father filling the house with his reproduction Chippendale furniture – it’s hard to shake the dark and dusty.
Chul An Kwak
Rococo bed
Maximo Riera
chapel in Cluny, France
Harry Weese brutalist chandelier
foam-coated chair by Peiter Jamart (mentioned before here)
Ferruccio Laviani for Emmemobili (mentioned before here)
Technique and the process of making something is more fascinating to me than the end result most of the time, especially when it’s something that appears as if I could do it myself.
A while ago, I bookmarked these tables by Martin Dieterle (via Design Milk) and I have been pondering how I could get this done – lots of dowls cut just right, only paint what will be seen, glue glue glue in batches over time, sand the top and voila!
Then, I saw this umbrella stand by Loris&Livia that coudn’t be more easy. This one is made from blue aluminum tubes and some sort of strap but, the same could be done with PVC piping or other metal pipes and a belt. I don’t have some massive collection of umbrellas but if you do, or have lots of guests over, or if you have a business, why not give this a shot?
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- Love laser cutting and this “hive bench” by Arktura is powder coated steel and uses mathematical algorithms to create the intricate patterns. The same designer, Chris Kabatsi also did this “vortex table” made from carbon fiber. Science + design =wow
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- High cholesterol. It runs in my family and they have blessed me with it as well. Two weeks ago, I went for my annual physical and received a newish blood test that doesn’t assess the typical cholesterol numbers but instead looks for the carriers of the bad cholesterol, the carriers that take it to your arteries and clogs them up. This is a measurement of LDL-P and mine were off the charts! Other than being terrified , I have had to seriously reassess everything that I put in my body. It looks like this self-proclaimed “meataterian” is going to have to gear more towards veganism.
- Everyone losing their mind over Alexander McQueen’s Paris S2010RTW runway show. Yes, it was accessible for anyone to view via webcast but does this warrant all the praise and hype? The prints on the dresses were absolutely stunning but the shapes were nothing to write home about and, I mean… seriously… the shoes?! Are you kidding me? I am not feeling this. (pics via)
these look like elephants to me
Alien vs. Predator anyone?
- My laptop has been sent off to get repaired which means I will have limited access to work on posts, check my reader, or tweet for a while. While I kinda welcome the break, I don’t want to lose momentum or miss anything fun!
- Football. Sick of hearing about it.
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