Furniture

we deciiiided!

http://www.westelm.com/products/250944/?catalogId=21&bnrid=3902401&cm_ven=Shopping&cm_cat=GoogleBase&cm_pla=ProductFeed&cm_ite=AllProducts

fucking pumped ! !

Nice, I like the Trento too. I'm in the throes of trying to move house, hopefully to somewhere a little bigger, which will necessitate all kinds of new furniture.

Abbott: cannot believe yr s-i-l's luck on that. If we can find somewhere with the space then will be *hunting down* some repro MvdR or Eames style seatage.

I want furniture to always be amazing

http://www.1stdibs.com/archivesB/upload/1stdibsC/052708_ZH/Pascal_BoyerNY/10/x2IMG_3252.jpg

laurel, that yellow couch!!! <3 please get it.

After I get an apartment, I hope! What I really want is the Reese sectional from Room & Board in black leather. But go figure, I don't have $4000 burning a hole in my non-existent savings account.

lol mad men but those reese sectionals are really nice

DON'T I KNOW IT

yes very nice indeed but i prefer the fabric version.

I actually do too, the leather is a compromise -- unforch one that almost doubles the price.

I don't like the new curved versions, there's nowhere good to put your back for lounging. The L-shaped sectional is where my heart is.

http://freshome.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/hican-bed3.jpg

The Hi-Can bed, ladies & gents! I don't even want the speakers & television that are built in, I just want the outer furniture. Maybe the lights would be nice.

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeese? I wonder if I could get one custom-built by someone more local...is that evil?

ugh to die

Although hah hah good luck getting the vertical pieces up some stairs, down some halls, through some doorways, and into a normal bedroom.

yea that bed pretty much resides in my fantasies-of-the-future-to-never-happen series of thoughts.

How about this valet/wardrobe? Not really big enough for any but the most minimalist wardrobe, but hot damn it's handsome.

http://www.naomidean.co.uk/Images/Compact%20Wardrobe%20Walnut.jpg

Just watched Mon Oncle. Funny but dated send-up of modernism:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3420/3385351765_810ce5852d_o.jpg

http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif

I have a large glass tabletop that I might want to use as an addl kitchen counter/work surface. I need some kind of shelving to put under it, that will support the counter and whatever equipment I put on it. Standard counter height is 36" so any combination of shelving should come out to around that.

Suggestions? Advice?

Thoughts:

http://images.containerstore.com/images/catalog/82763/GalvanizedCubeWineBar_xl.jpg

I like this steel cube system but at 14" high each, the math doesn't work.

Plastic shelving like Ladodo (Container Store) and the Cubitec stuff is close to the right height, but will it hold up under a lot of weight and let me store pots and pans underneath, or will the uprights end up bowed in three months?

Also why is all the plastic stuff HELLA EXPENSIVE, FOR PIECES OF PLASTIC??

?

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0094453_PE232324_S4.JPG

ikea meltorp. 90 cm high whatever that is in inches.

I think that's about 40" which could work...but I don't think they sell Meltorp products in the US?? Search item not found on the IKEA US website.

Okay I don't know what kind of idiot I am, but I just found all the Melltorp stuff. Thx!

Also considering standard wire kitchen shelving, but the 36" high uprights are harder to find than the normal industrial 54" ones. Should prob just go to kitchen supply district and buy whatever I find there.

ah i got the spelling wrong.

svalbo sideboard? it's lacquered solid pine.
http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/0102070_PE246471_S4.JPG

Ive been eyeing off one of those or similar for my kitchen because its a narrow galley and I need more shelving.

John Lewis have started stocking chairporn.

http://www.johnlewis.com/Home+and+Garden/Furniture/Designer+Furniture+/SubCategory.aspx

I remember reading an article some years ago interviewing the Eames designers among others who were mighty pissed off at the copies of classic Eames pieces other stores sell, and where the line's drawn on copyright... or whatever it'd be on furniture. It was an interesting point.

Well, I've got a fake Wassily chair. Em insists I can only have a Panton if it's real though. And one day I'll replace the fake Wassily with a real one. One day.

In-laws bought a LeCourbusier chair in some ridiculous 80%-off sale, decided they didn't want it, are giving it to us. More or less like this
http://www.classicdesign.it/images/camp-chair-le-corbusier~1.jpg except with this slightly weird black horsehair sort of material (maybe actual horsehair?) on the seat. I am sort of psyched about it and sort of weirded out by it at the same time -- it will be by far the nicest piece of furniture I have ever owned, including anything in my parents' house.

Anyone have experience with tempered glass just freakishly shattering because it's put down on the wrong surface/the wrong way? We bought this thing off craigslist:

http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/6F9C1000.jpg

and as I'm moving it, I have to briefly set on of the glasses down on a tile floor. I set it down what I think is gently and the thing just explodes on me. I was sort of shocked -- the woman was still there and I wound up paying her (I did "break" it, I figured) but she knocked a little off the price. But then I wondered whether there maybe had been some flaw in the glass or if it could have already been damaged.

But I mean it is very thin glass and maybe it was just the way I put it down/the surface.

I don't know about types of glass very well, but I think with some kinds, if it has a crack or chip or stress anywhere on the surface, it can weaken the whole thing? What happened to you seems fishy to me, tbh.

Now on to...BOOKSHELVES! I need them. More of them! For not-much money. I'm thinking the IKEA Kilby, which is $25 per unit, then hack it with some kind of fabric covering the back-board.

Also needed: more shelves per unit! Four is not enough! They're adjustable, so I'm thinking have some cheap stock/MDF cut to size, cover with accent fabric so you don't have to refinish them, and use as extra shelving??

Ladies and gentlemen, the boring cheap-as-shit Kilby:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_XGRz6uWGK3I/SNEJDkc0KPI/AAAAAAAAEPU/5hYR2UGTeO8/s400-R/2008_0410hack0009.JPG

I don't know about types of glass very well, but I think with some kinds, if it has a crack or chip or stress anywhere on the surface, it can weaken the whole thing? What happened to you seems fishy to me, tbh.

Meh, you're probably right. I'm too nice in these situations. I was like "shit, I broke it, guess I have to pay" -- took off a little $ but probably nowhere near the cost of the glass. I was also kind of shocked because a giant piece of glass had just kind of exploded in my hands, and I was bleeding a bit.

Anyway turns out you can order replacement glass and even with that cost it's still a less than 1/2 price DWR table. Hard not to kick myself, but these craigslist things are weird -- even if I put up a fight I'd have no way of proving anything.

http://www.modernflat.com/shop-modern/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/f2280f0201e8bb3748464e4e4ed64bf9619.jpg http://s6.thisnext.com/media/largest_dimension/6F9C1000.jpg

Anyone have any thoughts on these chairs with this table? Chairs are black, table is sort of dark coffee colored.

chairs, i think.

http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/bp_arm

http://www.outdoorzgallery.com/storage/bp/bp_lod_v.jpg

Right, then ... I need to buy a sofa bed. Any recommendations?

having a guy deliver a dresser from the salvage store. he works there and is obv just getting cash on the side, not delivering through the store. how much do i pay him? i just want him to put it on my front porch so he only goes up a few steps. he is driving it about 5 miles in his personal vehicle. $30? $40?

i think $50 would be too much

i just went ahead and asked him figuring i don't look that stupid and he said $35-40 fyi

If you want to get a little spendy for a piece of furniture, but not like design within reach/roche bobois/caligaris type spendy, what brands are actually worth it? We want to get a really nice modern sectional and would consider spending 2500-3500 for something really good, but I keep reading bad reviews regarding the quality of a lot of stuff in that range (Article, Interior Define etc.)

Is it possible to find a lamp like this in the U.S., and if so, where?

https://www.etsy.com/listing/740930311/floor-lamp-stephan-pine-wood-lamp?show_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

https://i.etsystatic.com/21222439/r/il/db23ee/2027897358/il_794xN.2027897358_iipk.jpg

that is some straight up etsy shit right there

oh ha I failed to look at the URL to see that it actually IS straight up etsy shit right there

so instead of etsy how about any high school shop class ever

i know this is the wrong thing to say but...i could do that

but you DIDN'T maaaan

yeah I mean come to think of it I probably could too, although I'd need some kind of hole saw or something to do the large holes