department of the interior: home decor

yeah plants are on my list ... for example the very top shelf of the wall unit is open for ... hanging ferns!

and in the space between the fake baha rocker and the speaker i want to put a little plant shelf, like a sawhorse type bakers rack deal

tobi turtle says hi!

my friend made this at the walker museum via some sort of generative artwork machine and brought it back to me, so i hung it over this ikea lamp to diffuse the light a little more

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8449/7977401380_c013c11794.jpg

the wall above this thing is empty precisely so i can start hanging plants

i am trying to do one thing at a time though
i guess it's kinda egomaniacal but i think it still looks good

does your dog worship his food/water/master in front of that thing? i hope so.

man i love plants, always want more. i have a couple that are kinda dying and i'd like to replace them but i have been told that i need to cut back on the plants :-/

yeah those are his food and water bowls

really i mostly worship him though and the turtle though, tobi especially sucks up many more hours than i intended

he's on my lap with his head in my armpit right now

you have really good pets, tlg :)

i know, i am lucky

i got both for free, even

wow!

actually, both my cats were given to me free too!
lucky pet owners, us

like i didn't even have to pay for first vaccinations or The Fixing

i would like to get a couple more plants (to join the two i have) for my place. like pets, plants help life.

i have been told that i need to cut back on the plants

Set them free at the botanical garden secretly, under a giant prehistoric fern leaf, and go visit them on the weekends?

I tried to grow plants in my kitchen and they all died within 2 weeks. I honestly don't know what it was. I tried to revive the parsley by putting it outside in the full sun but it still expired even with sun and water.

yeah i feel like i need to be really careful, i'm trying to just make sure i can keep my outdoor plants alive first, plants are not really meant for indoors!

my ficus is doing well though

wait, plants aren't meant for indoors?

well now that I said it I think there are some that do well indoors like ficus

my succulents though i feel like not really

OK, this is kind of bad but I have a tall metallic vase, the kind that they sometimes have fake decorative grass sticking out of in stores, and I have some "pet grass" I planted for my cat that he seems uninterested in. It's wheatgrass, iirc. Thinking if I can figure out a way to embed it at the top of the vase it may look not quite like a furniture store?

i don't get what you're saying mh?

i think the real issue is that a lot of small plants are built for partial shade, like the kind they get under trees, and that's hard to do in the house. also dust but that can happen outdoors too.

anyway this is what i want, just more broader and squatter, more modernist and less old-timey

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8178/7977903888_6dce393761.jpg

New place is VERY MUCH a work in progress, but I'm liking the way things are shaping up with orange shelves + red rug (with some orange in it) + neutral couch + black table and chair.

http://imageshack.us/f/716/59804698.jpg/

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http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg716/scaled.php?server=716&filename=59804698.jpg&res=landing

wow, love how the rug works in there. is it an afghan rug?

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg836/scaled.php?server=836&filename=lr2b.jpg&res=landing

TBH it's a hand-me-down rug from the inlaws that we just picked up, so I don't know exactly what kind. It does look kind of afghan in style to me though from what little I know of rugs.

I'm kind of against the plants and photo frame on top right now, but we're working these things out

afghan rugs are the ones with the very geometric black-and-white diamonds in a red expanse (or something like that), persian ones tend toward more rounded and floral forms

then again there are like 13 ethnic groups in iran, each w/ several variations of rug style, not counting persians who have one or more styles for each metropolis, and then there are transitional forms that people make too

i see some things about it that look afghan (the center diamonds and color scheme) and some things that look persian (the floral edges)

something like this dude in the middle of the table: http://f.cl.ly/items/0h310z2z1v1S1N0F1J3V/kitchenplants.jpg

department of the interior: home decor

This is a great shop! I had tables on the inside of all of my windows overburdened with cactus and thorny succulents from this place as a home defense system. If someone tried to break in, they'd stick themselves on a cactus and be all "fuck this, I'm outta here" was my thinking. Possibly stupid, but whatever. And as a cool side effect I had a great indoor cactus garden.

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late great u got some badass style in your home

I agree!
I have no plants in my house. I'm just not capable. My grandma has won many awards for her garden and I kill everything that enters this apartment.

thx

there's like a full-on tour upthread if you're interested, suffice to say i am a sad little houseproud man

i put time into this shit every day though, rearranging or reorganizing stuff until it's *perfect* in my head and then doing it over again, the living room in particular went through a few iterations before i was brave enough to post it here.

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

this thing laurel did is still my favorite thing on thread

What?? I mean, thanks, but it's just a bookshelf/curio shelf and a distraction from the open-air garment rack on the other side of the room--nothing can make THAT look better, unfortunately. Except, I suppose getting rid of all my clothes that aren't neutrals.

:D

I am very very very happy with the grey that I used on the walls, though. I love it every day.

i love the plants on top of the orange shelves!
as it turns out though, i have tacky 70s taste when it comes to decor. i can live with that as long as there is a carpeted conversation pit somewhere in my future. i will have it.
it will be mine.

ps i don't think your plants + shelves are tacky

Yeah, the orange shelves are those DWR cubitec modular shelves. We found a set super cheap once on craigslist, and got kind of into it so we waited until another one turned up on CL super cheap and bought that, and then one day my wife is on her way to the subway and calls me and is like "you have to come now, there are like two sets worth of orange cubitec on the street" - so I managed to carry them home. And it's been this thing since then -- how do we arrange the shelves, and how do we arrange the room around the shelves given that they're so freaking orange (which I love, but it creates difficulties). In the last place, my wife had the idea to paint the wall this kind of peach color and it worked really well with the shelves. This time we didn't want to paint, but the rug is a new addition that's working well.

They're really great shelves -- not that hard to rearrange/put together once you get the hang of it, and shockingly sturdy (although I'm still terrified of my little one figuring out how to pull them down on herself once she gets a little bigger).

i dont know L it just has perfect feng shui and proportion

That's lovely! I appreciate that.

My bookshelves will never be open and spacious and used for things other than books, because I have too many books and they're not "display" shelves, they're BOOK shelves. But it does visually tidy things up if you fill each cube fully, with the books in straight lines, either vert or horiz.

yeah we do still need to finish "tidying up" the shelves, so to speak. And yeah, they're not the ideal booshelves because there's some wasted space. I've probably given up more books than I would like to over the past few years, although doing so is a godsend during moves.

I've seen shelves that looked good even if books were stacked sideways on top of standing books, what matters is that the heights be similar enough that books can fill up the space without leaving many gaps. Obv this is idealized and not always possible if you care about your cataloging (keeping authors together or w/e).

god damn look at this

http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/0/10356/4071059/jmarigomen-rodneyg03_1500.jpg

from my favorite fashion photographer

http://journal.jennileemarigomen.com

woah! http://payload88.cargocollective.com/1/0/10356/4071059/jmarigomen-rodneyg20.jpg

i have no idea who that dude is but he is living the dream

he makes my life feel so cluttered

What is a good-sized couch for a studio apartment? I haven't measured yet so I'm not sure how much space I have.

Something without a huge rolled arm, preferably. A lot of furniture has been designed on bigger and bigger scales to appeal to the eye of people with big rooms, but it's horrible for apartments. Things with straight-up-and-down arms & sides & backs will take up way less space.

measure how much size you have

this is kinda spendy but i love it

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90214855/