department of the interior: home decor

i like that plan a lot, and i'm not wedded to the coffee table the way i am the chairs and rocker

the only thing is that moving the wall unit is kind of a no-go, mainly because drilling half-inch holes into that empty space on the left is problematic (there's conduits there)

would it still work with an off-center shelving unit or would it look funky?

a relevant piece of info is that the distance from the window to the bedroom door (out of frame on the left, next to the rocker) is about 100" wide (8 1/4 ft iirc), the armchairs are about 32 inches wide and the bentwood magazine rack is about 18" wide.

do u really want a carpet in that room?

I recommend making scale cut-outs of your furniture and room and playing around. Usually find that 1'=1" works well.

i wonder how hard it would be to do it in google sketchup

mainly i want the rug because the room gets *very* bright in the afternoons as light bounces off the floor. the floor itself is nowhere near as nice as it looks in that picture. it is more orange than brown and because of poor lacquer application there are matte spots and dark spots all over the place (could also be dog pee from previous owners).

in the winter and on spring and fall nights the floors are quite cold because of a crawlspace under the house that gets no light, and i was hoping a rug would help maintain some foot insulation.

finally, i find that having rugs in your house is the ONLY way to get your 20-something friends to respect the "no shoes" rule.

my original plan was to use a big wool pendleton blanket (somewhat tatami-style in my mind) but having bought a few now i am realizing they are much too thick for furniture to sit on

id go for s.thing monochrome and textured

a lack of rugs in living areas really makes a room feel cold/echo-y. bc that is a small space with a lot going on, maybe a rug in one solid colour, a neutral that complements the other room colours

Was going to rec a woven grass-style/sisal/outdoorsy rug for summer, maybe with a fabric border for contrast? You could put your blanket down in the winter, but make sure there's a non-slip pad under it.

like a flokati? except the one time i actually had a flokati it shed crap all over the place.

i have been looking for a simple, woven off-white rug but everything i find either looks like something you'd buy at home depot to put on your deck or like a giant bath towel

one of the most unfortunate things about the floor is that it makes persian rugs look really bad

that's an xpost to lamp

I don't think I'm grokking the "blankets too thick to put furniture on" idea because carpets--pile carpets are like an inch thick, plus padding!

Sorry, itt Laurel gets rid of all your furniture and tells you to like what she puts in your house. :/

Flokatis stop shedding at some point? I have one from 1997 that's fine, but I've put it through the washer a bunch of times, that's probably thinned out the strays.

haha theres a sort of muted white broadloom in the bensen catalog that i think would be perfect for that space but i cant seem to google find it

anyway i dont think color would be too bad as long its not ~bright~. something like these: http://www.modernweave.com/modern-movement_197categ.html

i am kinda biased cuz those are really beautiful but we have carpet already and tearing it out and refinishing the hardwood is just too huge a project atm

Those ARE beautiful. Overstock.com also has a lot of options for not that much $$.

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/3/P11448023.jpg

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/P12375684.jpg http://ak2.ostkcdn.com/images/products/4/278/P11992867.jpg

Or, quite frankly, I love this one as an anchor for the room:

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/75/920/P13711648.jpg

I fall in love with at least two rugs a week, tbh. How I would love to furnish a whole house.

some people seem to "get" the blanket thing and other people look at me like i'm completely bonkers

this was the inspiration here: http://www.tpor.jp/item/mensnews/mn563.html

i liked the coziness of the pic and it reminded me of my armchairs

how about this old chestnut: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20072067/

i think my parents even have one i can steal

For the price of that IKEA one, you can get something better, I think.

Like this!

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/L14040197.jpg

that ikea rug is p scratchy ime

i really like cowhides and had one in my old living room (ex-wife owned it) but i am really afraid of offending my vegan friends, especially since i have like three animals in glass boxes in that room also and my fridge is full of pork products

the amazing thing about cowhides is you can spill anything short of heavy oil on it and it won't stain

haha theres a rug on abc carpet called the 'lhasa' thats really beautiful and would suit the room and maybe split the difference btw the blanket and something more carpet-y but its like $3400 (down from $6300!) but if you can find something machine made thats similar i think itd really work

would suggest removing everything from room, finished plan should be similar to this:

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/40600/40690/pb_sq_40690_md.gif

hm my rug budget is around $200

don't think everything in that room adds up to $3400, even w/ POWERBOOK included

er sorry MACBOOK PRO

hey what happened to suggest ban?!?!

Don't mind I DIED, he's obsessed with looking at fewer things. I think his apartment has one chair, one rug, and some cardboard boxes.

oh yeah abc carpet is the type of site i can only depress myself looking at but its often p easy to rip off stuff you find on really high end blogs/catalogs and im always just as happy with the stuff i find at the flea market and not having credit card debt

Two of these Ikea rugs fill my living room...

http://images1.americanlisted.com/nlarge/rug_ikea_beige_checkers_40_glen_rock_8617756.jpg

....arranged in an L shape, not side by side - like my living room itself.

http://fuckyournoguchicoffeetable.tumblr.com/
lol tho tbh i like a lot of stuff i see there

God every single photo on that thing is from Apartment Therapy it seems like. They all look familiar....

haha I 100% agree with 'Fuck your Keep Calm and Carry On poster' and 'Fuck your thing that says EAT in your kitchen' but a lot of the rest I'm a little jealous of. Except a book stack because fuck getting a book out of that thing.

haha yeah i laughed at those too
and i don't understand book stacks! is there a device to keep them stable? and so that you can take books from the middle of them? or is it truly a crazy stack of books??
i also only half understand colour-coordinated bookshelves - my initial reaction is 'how can you find anything if you don't coordinate your books by theme??' but i realize that some people really do remember the colour of a book, i mean, i sometimes do. but still, it doesn't seem very efficient. pretty though.

but yeah there are many things in those pictures that i covet

I might be a teeny bit jealous of the card catalog, and my grandpa once built a platform bench that I wish I had, but everything else can bite me. Books arranged by color or wrapped in brown paper jackets or shelved with the spines to the back all send me over the edge of my temper almost immediately.

i really like the nelson platform bench as coffee table, for instance
and many of the couches are simple and awesome

The secret of the book-stack.

i'm a fan of frame clusters, if the pictures are good
i can get behind luggage stacks, in a way

xp

what is the secret??

ohhh

haha our apt is v apt therapy tbrr

i even have 4 of those walnut eames chairs that i bought from someone on craigslist

(haha my ilx theme is one where the underline in the link doesn't show, so i don't always know things are links)

dissing MCM / apartmenttherapy is pretty weak IMO, up there w/ "fuck your skinny jeans! fuck your vans authentics! fuck your carabiner w/ keys on it!"

i mean talk about easy targets

I read AT every single day, don't think I don't.

And designsponge.com and Door 16 or whatever that one is called, and the Victorian renovation in SF blog and some others.

i don't read that tumblr as a full-on dis though

apartment therapy always reminds of when in contemp novels (male, always male) authors describe a certain kind of home as containing 'the artful but disposable furniture, carefully chosen, that also sat in all the other now empty apartments' or w/e but not in a bad way, like those sentences make me mad and i can think of at least five novels last year that did that because it totally mistakes how nice this stuff is, and that its not really all that disposable or mechanical idk im just rambling in defense of my wall of midcentury oil paintings and my danish modern coffee table and my minimalist bensen bed frame