department of the interior: home decor

it will def get a lot of light through the window but i hope the glass doesn't fuck up the uv light in some way that will starve it for sunlight

the diatoms in the turtle tank are certainly getting enough sunlight to keep infesting the tank

The only sitting furniture I have besides my office chair is this barrel chair; its legs fell off

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg21/scaled.php?server=21&filename=img2958ss.jpg&res=landing

My house is bad for entertaining

Quilt by my great grandma

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg826/scaled.php?server=826&filename=img2954p.jpg&res=landing

Kind of nice dresser balanced out by deranged RGB curtains

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg201/scaled.php?server=201&filename=img2877o.jpg&res=landing

If I had to say something positive about my home decor, I would say it looks consistent

I saw this floor lamp in a store and fell in love. I had to have it. Even though it cost me more than everything else in the living room put together. But, as Martha and the Vandellas could have told me, love makes me do foolish things. About 5 feet tall, it's in what had been a dark corner alongside the sofa and makes a good reading light.

Very 1965. Or is it very 1972? (those would be completely different things if we were talking clothes)

http://www.novalightingstore.com/Nova/Images/2343.jpg

I LOVE THAT QUILT

ABBS THAT ARCHIE POSTER <3
your furniture is excellent as well! I kinda love the RGB drapes, heh.

Lee's lamp is A+ too. I'm a cheap bastard so I will never have that in my house but we do have this great family hand me down (which we have trouble fitting into our blue & red home). I need to get a good picture of it, this is all I have and it's from our last apartment. Beautiful iron & glass thing.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/376_35839923577_5443_n.jpg

That's a oool looking lamp too!

I like all these lamps

oh man, i wish i could use this craigslist MCM headboard but it's too small for my bed:

http://images.craigslist.org/5N75Je5Me3K13G13H2c9tb881b5220e6b15f1.jpg

wow

a steal @ $40

i'll say

my friend bought that headboard! :D

crossposting from the thrift store thread: i found this dinette set this weekend but didn't have the means to transport it and, as i was by myself, wanted to consult on furniture purchases with my bf before making a final decision:

http://i.imgur.com/5Mz5B.jpg

needs a deep cleaning & the surface needs a good waxing, not exactly what i was looking for in a dinette set but i kinda like it and it's only $58? thoughts?

Adorbs, excellent price, AND you get a leaf. Do it.

Buy the high-boy and low-boy set in the background while you're at it, WHERE ARE YOU? It looks like a magic place.

St Vincent de Paul Thrift, Fall River MA! If you like those pieces you'll die over another bedroom set I saw there, i can post a pic later

Christ I have to get out of New York.

it's where all the dearly departed portuguese catholics bequeath their well-maintained furniture, apparently

http://i.imgur.com/EIzrc.jpg

this is the other bedroom set I saw, i think it was around $300? highboy & lowboy w/ mirror plus headboard w/ sliding panel shelf. not sure what size the headboard is, may not work because of space issues in my apt. nice, no?

I am very very sad right now.

no! no sad! that was not my intent. just come to southeast new england with a rental van

Aw thanks. I don't have anywhere to put it, though, either! Some day I will live in a house. Maybe.

that is a steal for $300

right??

got that table! woohoo

the tabletop had some heavy scratches on it, curious if i should try to wax the top to shine it up a bit. would something like car wax or surf wax work? (the latter being hard to find round here tbh)

what's it made of?

not sure, some kind of plastic laminate with a grey woodgrain pattern in it

anything good for Formica-type laminate countertops would probably work then. Never tried car wax but it may help, and if that doesn't work then rubbing compound or scratch remover (sold at auto parts stores) may be worth a try. Powdered kitchen cleansers mixed with a small amount of water may work. Surf wax designed for max stickiness rather than removing scratches so not sure that would work.

good deals

ok so the dinette set looks very good in context, really happy bout it, thx everybody

i had been stumped on how to deal with the pale yellow walls in the dining room but now the color of the seat cushions has provided an important clue, of course teal is the answer, duhh

a couple of the resin feet on the chairs are missing, tho. will need to solve that. or get a deep pile rug.

I have a coffee table now. How did I live before this?

I need one of those.

inspirations in design:
http://gridness.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/schoner-wohnen-800x600.jpeg

via http://gridness.net/vintage/vitsoe/

i keep finding these headboards on craigslist that i can't use

http://i.imgur.com/Fhq5H.jpg

this is king sized, need a queen. goddamnit.

That is not the worst thing in the world, though. You could hide the legs with beside chests of drawers?

possible but doubtful with the current bed position. i'd have to bust out the tape measure but i think it's a no go.

Aww.

Well. One can't have everything lovely. Unfortunately.

and shouldn't even if you could. fortunately.

i, a designer, (of sorts) am currently having my bathroom remodelled by the insurance guys of the people (housing association) upstairs whose bath-waste flooded my bathroom. they came to me with large marbley-effect tiles which they think are awesome and i sent them away to get 6x6 plain white tiles and they think i'm crazy for wanting bog standard white tiles (with grey grout, my one concession!) but it's covered in insurance. when i told them i was a designer they looked at each other and at my flat with o_O faces and i don't blame them! i'm the one who will vacillate over tiles for a month or more for a client but whose bathroom was in a sorry state even before the flood. I accepted the insurance refit because it was better than what i had already (they're like this whole wall will have to come off and be redone but they don't know it was already like that before the flood). it's tragic! but my bathroom will function well from tomorrow when it barely has for years. i'm grateful that decisions have been taken out of my hands,

but, on the plus side, they send a plasterer over to skim my ceiling, and the ceiling is like a mirror of plaster. he's amazing at his job and so there's a contact.

part of me thinks i should give up this design stuff and retrain as a plasterer. at least i'd make money.

good plaster work blows my mind.

When I tell people my apartment is pretty empty they think I mean it's modernist but it's really just spartan.

Got the last of the wedding presents: the afghan my Maid of Honour crocheted for us. It really ties the room together! /Lebowski

http://instagr.am/p/SQJNh_jbBr/

I want to kiss this thing. I might!

That is **amazing** wow!

Beautiful! It looks wonderfully warm too.

that is sooooo great. i want to make that.

seriously inspirational

Everyone should make one! I am so blessed that she made this for me. Soooo snuggly too.