department of the interior: home decor

That's a pic from the store. It cost me only $375!

Oh that's stunning! And are those highball glasses? We have similar ones if so ..

Oh haha. Damn zing / invisible xposts!

Oh!! Those are from the store, BUT, I have similar colored/gold accented glasses that were a WONDERFUL spur-of-the-moment Xmas gift from our own carl agatha! I love them. We were browsing Macy's one day at lunch and next thing you know, I was the happy new owner of those glasses.

My big cat sleeps on the bottom shelf, under the drawers. When she's upset over a scolding or nail trimming, she flees there and glowers at me.

O_o

freakin awesome

yeah that is amazing. that's the kind of shelving unit that i want to believe would solve all my problems.

I love that, and I rarely give furniture a second glance!

wish i had room for that sort of thing

Funny you should say that b/c I bought it because I live in a (large) studio apartment. I am using it as a room divider, creating a bedroom space. I installed mirrors as backing, which really does give the illusion of more space while also blocking the view of the bed from the living area.

Oh, I found that china hutch that I found at a thrift shop. It was inexplicably underpriced, both in terms of what I figure it's worth and compared to how a lot of crap there is priced way too high.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/231/520669721_676d7a87a7.jpg

ooooh that's lovely!

martinsville

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Martinsville? Brand, you mean? IDK.

(meant to say above "found that *PICTURE* of the hutch")

yeah martinsville was a really popular brand of mid century furniture that kinda split the diff between the whole hog futurism of george nelson and american traditional

they also made traditional furntiure. one of the hallmarks i think was that they did modern design in trad woods like maple or pine whereas nelson went for space-age materials like plastics, metals and plywoods

Oh, I see. I'm pretty ign'nt, tbh. I can't remember if I've checked for labels, and I would never know how to ID a particular piece. I will read about Martinsville, though.

Any pointers on educating myself online?

i spend a lot of time looking at craigslist and ebay and a lot of the time that stuff is identified and eventually you'll see something very similar or the same thing which can help you nail down what you have (within a couple years if not exactly)

it is obv a lot harder if you don't have tags - there are def vintage clothes and sneaker bibles that show you how to identify random shit and figure out what's rare and what's not but i think there's not as much out there for furniture

not sure why that might be except there are a lot more furniture knockoffs and it's in dealers interest to be able to push the knockoffs?

haha i do not trust seller descriptions of furniture on craiglist at all, no way man

def not if they are unmarked

someone once said about yelp that you can learn to "read" the yelp reviews, think craigslist is similar, it's easy to spot credible sellers vs scammers after awhile, especially if you check regularly

oh sure, i don't necessarily mean scammers, i just mean folks for whom "antique" tends to mean anything 30 years old and who describe veneered furniture as "solid wood"

there is so much straight up GARBAGE from the 50/60/70s being marketed as midcentury, shit like stained glass lamps you'd see in a wendy's or round table pizza

EAMES ERA SMOKE STAINED FAKE ASS TIFFANY LAMP

cool octagonal mahogany poker table w four tufted vinyl armchairs MID CENTURY

old packet of staples MIDCENTURY MODERN

best to just search for "FAKE ASS"

"old packet of staples MIDCENTURY MODERN" reminds me of Regretsy's category called "Stuff that is not steampunk," where they repost stuff from Etsy like a crappy dress or lamp that someone embellished with lace or beads and then called Steampunk. In fact, iirc, Etsy sellers also abuse the description "MCM."

I mean

http://static.regretsy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/steampunk_jesus.jpg

That is so not steampunk.

This, on the other hand....

http://i55.tinypic.com/16k96ir.jpg

or this....

http://1800recycling.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/rusty.jpg

http://www.datamancer.net/steampunklaptopemail1.jpg

http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/alchemist_tn.jpg

http://www.datamancer.net/keyboards/aviator_tn2.jpg

well thats kinda pretty

MIDCENTURY SIDE TABLES

http://images.craigslist.org/5Kd5Hd5P23K13Gc3Nec5c536fe3bb1c471168.jpg

MIDCENTURY LAMP

http://images.craigslist.org/5I35G15Md3F33N73Hec4l67562a0b383117e1.jpg

my new favorite books to collect from thrift stores are illustrated home decorating books from the 50s - 80s

'midcentury' is tricky because it might be technically correct in terms of period but 100% rong re: design

midcentury chair & lamp & fantasy style art!

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/hsh/3024431161.html

got the luxo lamp update for you all

robin's egg blue in the living room ... kinda bummed that the clamp didn't fit on the lower level, might drill something into the side of the desk to make that possible. please ignore the mess as i quit my job, clean out my office and move it into my house.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7230/7164539449_4f865721c3.jpgp

and a sunny yellow one i recently found on ebay for $20

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7086/7164482269_7b4836b72a.jpg

try again

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7230/7164539449_4f865721c3.jpg

Not a full panoramic view but one little corner of my bedroom, as of yesterday morning.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Vignette.jpg

that looks lovely!

so pretty x

i love those flowers w/ that squat yellow vase

aw, laurel, i love your little vignette!

timely bump because i am doing some major adjustments to the apartment right now. thrifted 2 new pieces for clothes storage - a modern highboy on tapered legs, v midcentury looking, and a big rustic pine chest of drawers. neither are exactly collectible pieces, definitely well used, built inexpensively but they are solid and look pretty good. total cost for both was $65!

closest to interior decoration I got was producing loads of A4 prints for my wall with the inkjet printer I bought in 2007. Still got most of them up at least where the wall still shows. Also used actual lp sleeves blu-tacked to the walls. & a couple of actual posters.
Just had massive white walls that were way too blank & about 10 ft tall.

oh yeah , a few model show cars I made from kits a couple of years back adorn the shelves now too.

Thanks, guys! That angel painting is OOF terrible but it was a present from a family friend for my hs graduation, who had it professionally framed, and I've never been able to decide what to do with it, really. There's a picture rail along that wall so I think I'll at least hang it properly (and higher).