department of the interior: home decor

oh i tried to post it again. i don't think you can img link from flickr tbh.

you can but not from a phone afaik

let me help u

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8480/8247755065_097d5b237c_m.jpg

AMAZING

that's pretty cool wallpaper

Recommending that to parents

The butterflies. Why?

Classical beauty of the natural world, obvs!

The while bathroom was amazing tbh

Pink sunken hot tub

elaborate gold fixture

Chandelier

·whole

these people know how to live

Kind of coveting large coordinated dinner services atm:

http://images.worthpoint.com/files/ra/onlinecats/10.02MOD/562.jpg
http://www.xbaystore.de/bilder/xbay/7ulgu1.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2HrW6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DLLcz.jpg

I guess people used to have lots more space for this stuff? See also 2-metre-long sideboards.

And hutches!

I have a 12 place-setting Noritake (silver key pattern) set my mother in law gave me - gravy boat, 2 sizes of serving platters, serving bowls, fking TEACUPS, the whole works.
She gave it to me because she never used it and didn't have the room in her smaller house for it. It's really beautiful, and it makes me feel like a grownup to have it. But I'm kind of terrified to use it because I'm so scared of smashing it.

It looks nice in the china hutch though, so there's that.

working at a historical house this summer imbued me with envy of arts&crafts stye/era dinner services

envying other people's possession of them. i do not want to be like a dinner service

A friend sent me a link to this delightful home decoration. I feel like it has given me a new outlook on interior design and the economics therein. The five star review is also interesting.
http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/product/home-games/060010.jsp

"I was reluctant to dish out the big bucks for this easel, but my husband knew how much I loved it and secretely purchased it for me as a birthday gift. I love it! Have know idea why I hesitated to buy it, it fits so perfectly with my living room decor here in El Paso and is such a conversation piece. Sometimes I use it to display my own art, sometimes I leave it "naked" to let its interesting colors be on display. I know I will have this forever and it's worth the investment."

Reading the product description and review made me feel like I'd been observing an alien planet.

i'm going to assume that by "my own art" she means "art that i own" rather than "art i've made myself"

I'm going to hope so.

I think that's overly optimistic

Man there's like two or three of those just up for grabs in the hall outside my grad school studio, I'm gonna be rich.

I have a tall but narrow room with one window that gets no direct sunlight, and I want to put a dining table in it and make it brighter and more inviting. I have:

2 pendant ceiling lights that I can move around and rehang at various heights, and
1 corner with access to electricity where I can put a table lamp which will define a reading nook/conversation area

There are no other outlets or elec in the room.

I'm not asking for a whole diagram or w/e but I would take any advice. Brian, you said something about light color earlier but I looked on packages at the store and I couldn't make sense of the various measurements.

At this point I actually feel like color matters less (unless it's a TRULY TERRIBLE COLOR) than proximity, ie my eyes are straining if the light isn't near/directly lighting the thing I'm looking at.

Add mirrors/reflective surfaces

definitely! those make any space look larger, or confuse me in bars and make me wonder why a guy on the other side of the bar looks like me

Hm I have thought of adding a mirror, I could never decide on the placement but maybe putting the table in will show me where a mirror has to go.

put it across the table from where you sit and never drink alone

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i just bought this rug, it's really big and awesome:

http://ak1.ostkcdn.com/images/products/P14204782.jpg

nice rug, doesnt look that big tho

I like that rug!!

New comforter. Am in love with the pattern

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/59DF85C7-165B-4856-A9B1-3D65F5527274-15189-00000BFB2DFCEAC2.jpg

wow. paisley/paisley-like things are neet!. my rug is too big to fit in a room, so i turned it sideways and now i feel like i sleep in a marakeesh hasharie

How big IS it? I still like it tho I would maybe throw something neutral across part of it to cut the busyness.

put it in a very small room so it covers all surfaces totally surrounding you

this is the rug room you say entering the rug room

as you sit on it, you start to see it creeping up the walls in the corners of your vision

oh damn, that would be cool. i am into (fake) oriental rugs and might start a collection. the new rug is 10.5x12. the room is 12 x 14, but it's got closet cut-outs. it looks neat. all of the trim in my house is dark-stained gumwood, and i've got ecru walls. i'm decorating the room with silver picture frames, mirror, and tomorrow i'm buying midnight-blue velvet drapes.

cue Lou Gramm

many xposts - love the rug!!!

oh my god my new place is so ugly and horrible right now

A work in progress, V! Work in progress. Chin up, man.

probably moving in the next few months myself, it's a never ending adventure

What can I do about the ugly pink accent tile in my bathroom?? The walls are covered floor to ceiling in white subway tile, which is nice, but cutting through the middle of it, is a band of smaller accent tiles in a gross pink. The soap dishes, toilet paper holder, and towel racks are permanent ceramic pieces of the same color. If they were a decent color, they might be pretty cool, but it's such an insipid pink. I'll post a picture later, but is there any obvious solution for overcoming gross color in a rental?

AFAICT, the ceramic fixtures are not cheap shit, and they might be original (the building was a hotel in the early 1900s and I found some stuff about it online that makes it obvious that it is largely unchanged), so I don't want to fuck them up. I have considered replacing the tiles, which is well within my abilities, and would not be too expensive to do right with quality materials, but if I could decorate around them, I would prefer that.

I dunno but I share your pain, my new bathroom is turquoise sponge painted, with pink tiles, plastic fish on the wall and a manky carpet. my last bathroom was the most beautiful one in the world so it's :( until we make this one awesome as well.