department of the interior: home decor

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).

just got a call a while ago from my boyfriend, who was home today with neck / back pain. apparently he took an opioid painkiller and decided to hang curtains. "i dunno, they look... weird," says he. curious to see wtf he managed to do, lol.

Hahaha please take photographs.

you guys I am back in my own apartment, almost newly renovated - well, we did a huge job after 4 years of saving and planning, back in 2009, and lived in it for precisely 6 weeks until a fortnight ago, so it's new to us. It is soooo cool to go round seeing the design decisions you made and being grateful to past you. A shower I can adjust the height AND angle of! Yes, America, it can be done! Along with central heating that works and handles on drawers/cupboards so you can open them without clawing at the underside of the doors - doors which are soft-close (horribly quick to get used to, I slammed everything for months when I moved into the SF apartment). And a washing machine INSIDE the flat! A non-beige bathroom!

Don't want to post pics of my place on TEH INTERNET but would be interested in a renovations discussion as someone mentioned here or somewhere else.

i really like the painting and i think it looks good there but also a little precarious sitting on the books, why not hang it up?

the curtains ended up fine, it was merely d.'s perception that was skewed.

got this duvet (w/o shams)

http://images.crateandbarrel.com/is/image/Crate/SaarniSageBeddingF11

i like it, which is promising because i seem to hate everything i look at, bedding-wise. but, i wish i loved it rather than just liking it. and, white. i wish there wasn't so much white!

debating about returning it but prob going to keep it. or that's what i think today. i would like to feel more decisive about this.

sorry, hueg pic.

I've considered going all-white because my room is painted grey and it's kinda shaded and a little dark in there, even though I'd probably spill red wine on it in the first 72 hours. But it's so fresh looking! I like white even though it's impractical.

Hello, department! I have not posted in this thread before and caught up on it a week or so ago. I apologize for the upcoming torrent of updates. Love all the ideas herein.

So, I am partway through a multi-part bedroom remodel. Floor refinished, walls repainted, badly-organized closet shelves torn out, and new furniture purchased. Yet to do: finish the closet, install new ceiling fan/light.

Quandary! I have a rather large closet and am planning on installing new doors that will only close over the hanging clothes half, with the other half being open shelves and open space I could theoretically put a vertical dresser or table in. As for the doors: I'm considering something like this. I can possibly retrofit the existing frame to accommodate the actual doors from IKEA, which could be economical. Still looking for alternatives, though.

i was totally picturing doors like that!
so by retrofit you mean build up the frame a bit with metal or wood pieces, right? i guess it all depends on what you want the closet to look like and how it fits with the room and how much you want to spend. all i really know is that it's good to not have to see all your clothes all the time and to have a place for everything...

in my dept of the interior, i am apparently still really sticking with the colour white.
my concierge/landlady gave me 3 cans of white paint yesterday, free! and a roller and pan.

she also gave me all these gauzy curtains and a curtain rod! we shall see about that...

Yeah, I don't know what'd work, probably pick the shorter door size and put a 1"x4" across the top as a facade with a cross-piece behind to mount the track hardware to? I may have to do that regardless, even if I custom-build a door. Which makes me think, how hard can a custom door really be?

I also want this lamp (linked because huge: http://www.bludot.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/thumbnail/428x428/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/e/bender_lamp_wh-new_1.jpg) but it is backordered.

nice. it looks like its meant for laying an open book face down on!

I would never do that to a book! You can prove nothing :)

haha
i did that to a book yesterday and felt bad.
oh geez wait there is one like that on my desk right now.