Furniture

bench on one side. definitely need the room.

that's very nice indeed.

i need an armchair and a rug

please share recommendations.

not too expensive.

thanks.

ok i'm thinking "brown leather armchair"

if anyone knows of anything like this brown leather chair that ISN'T $1000, let me know

http://coolmaterial.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/leman-stainless-steel-lounge-chair.jpg

god i want it to so bad. pls don't let me spend $1000 on a chair

That's like a cross between by John Lewis Zest chair and my Wassily chair. The former was £350, the latter £150.

anyone want to buy a big desk?

kind of lovin the Wassily chair, mouthy. u think 1 three-seater couch and that chair + other, living room chairs would be enough to furnish an nyc living room with? or do i need an official armchair in addition to the couch?

omg why is it 2k

One always needs an armchair.

Well, if you're mad, you can pay $2k for a Wassily chair (or to be authentic really emphasise the V in Wassily) but you can pick up repros for a couple of hundred quid and some of them are pretty good.

For the real, real thing watch these videos, which pass for porn in my house, attractive woman shows you around original chairs...(in an attemot to get you to spend squillions on them).
http://www.findmetheoriginal.com/video
The Mies Van Der Rohe is my favourite as I like the way she kneels before the chair. and caresses it's beautiful steel legs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLOKc-p1M4

i know, i fucking love that chair

I feel you, the couch I want is like $4000. I mean I'm sure I can find something else, but I like it a lot.

Actually, you furniture/design geeks: I might be asking for suggestions in the nearish future -- I don't get around the high-design world much but I could be looking for a couple of niiice pieces this year.

Beds of interest:

The Blu Dot Nook

http://img.archiexpo.it/images_ae/photo-g/letto-matrimoniale-moderno-130600.jpg

The Alfredo Haberli Legnoletto modular bed with extended headboard

http://www.bonluxat.com/cmsense/data/uploads/orig/Alfredo_H%C3%A4berli_Legnoletto_Bed_7g9.jpg

There's another bed with a molded headboard/shell that curves into the base as well and sort of cups around the corners, but I can't remember what it's called and it's driving me crazy.

lol i walk by a bunch of fancy design stores all the time and i just *sigh* as i pass by

http://www.chicagohomemag.com/Chicago-Home/Images/Nov-Dec/house_sofa_2.jpg

i really want a couch. don't care about the design of it at all just one that is sort of comfortable/durable and i can sit on.

ok maybe i do care a little about the design because i don't want one like that

http://www.uncrate.com/men/images/flight-recliner.jpg

That's the airline seat chair, isn't it? Is it v comfortable? Have never sat in one but it's a little too institutional for me.

hey i actually like that red couch, but i am pretty partial to red couches in general. ours is a faded light pink one that looks like it was designed for a florida hotel in the 80s...so if you really do just want something comfortable to sit on, craigslist is the way to go :P

yah laurel its the flight recliner - only problem is our apt is too small to recline properly. its v v comfortable as a reading chair tho

any i want the sliding sofa because i like the aesthetic and its a place for ppl to crash when they stay the wknd and i love red

I'm wary of the "modern" furniture from those scammy online warehouses with cheesy "Italian" names and a little too much kooky/European '80s sensibility, but I'm really really tempted by this couch.

http://efstyle.com/catalog/images/id-lk31-Sofa-bed-big.jpg

Reclines into a sofa bed, btw.

i kinda like that one

For the low low price of about $650-700.

a lot of designy furniture just looks like it would age so badly, if i paid a lot for something i would want to be able to keep it for a long time

that looks so much like my great aunt's yellow couch. her kids just persuaded her to take the plastic off of it after 15-20 years.

a lot of designy furniture just looks like it would age so badly, if i paid a lot for something i would want to be able to keep it for a long time

most of the modern euro stuff is incredibly well-made and requires less upkeep than antiques or reproductions of older styles

no i don't mean the quality, just how it looks. i would get tired of a lot of it.

Depends on what your eye & brain consider a "basic" couch, I suppose. (Or a basic table, or chair, etc.) If you expect to see something in a certain style, you're not always mentally confronting it again and again -- your eye just passes over.

If you think of the style as being bold or loud or obtrusive, then yes, maybe that would wear after a while.

yah i dont think that any furniture you buy will seem continually fresh or obtrusive or w/e - fading into the background is just kinda what furniture does even the strongest pieces

i do think i like modern/design-y stuff because it feels to me the 'best suited' to contemp urban enviornments - its weird going to ppl's places and seeing heavy antique chesterfields in their living rooms

Agreed, altho I grew up in a 1903 house with Victorian furniture so it's possible I'm also wanting a fresher aesthetic in reaction to that.

When I was little, before I knew anything about "modern" or contemporary design, I preferred Craftsman/Prairie over all other styles. Of course in 1988 you could buy Stickley pianos at estate sales because no one wanted them. O_o

contemporary stuff is fine, i don't really like antiques or whatever either

I bought a Jed armchair from Habitat. It has changed my life. It might even have changed my music habits as I am more likely to *stop* and sit down and really, really listen.

Oooh, we've been thinking about a Jed; we've got a Viktor sofa and it'd go great with that.

It's surprisingly comfy, for a chair with a wooden back. You will start listening to Rune Grammofon on your Alessandros. I'm sure I've a discount code somewhere for Habitat. Will post if I find.

http://www.chicagohomemag.com/Chicago-Home/Images/Nov-Dec/house_sofa_2.jpg
lamp wth is this I thought u were homo

omg i want this http://www.besthousedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/brown-barcelona-chair-588x372.jpg

like, really bad. really really. anyone know of any good barcelona reproduction companies??

it's in the sale, nick:

http://mydeco.com/p/occasional-armchair/d681da9cc7bf2b8cc0d3ca71bb50e38a1208dac9/

honest opinions on this "Trento Slipper Chair" in faux brown leather
http://images.hayneedle.com/mgen/master:LHD307.jpg

The base looks like conference room/office furniture, to me.

Maybe in the right room it wouldn't be as noticeable.

yeah definitely a little office-y

http://www.besthousedesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/brown-barcelona-chair-588x372.jpg

Surm my sister-in-law has this chair + a footstool and that is some next-level sitting, let me tell you. Would sit in again.

adflkjas;flkjasf;lkj. i wonder if she paid $4k for it . . .

She got a repro at a used furniture store for $150, lucky gal.

omg waht

so instead of etsy how about any high school shop class ever

i know this is the wrong thing to say but...i could do that

but you DIDN'T maaaan

yeah I mean come to think of it I probably could too, although I'd need some kind of hole saw or something to do the large holes

man alive didn’t you just move to the suburbs? You’re behind schedule on becoming woodworking dad

Good to rearrange your furniture every year or so

Any recommendations for cheap, good-enough quality media/book racks?

I mean the Ikea Kallax is probably one of their all-time great products, along with the Poang chair, and that's cheap. The shelving areas are perfect squares and exactly the right size for records but work fine as book shelves (my kids use them for that).

Thanks! Will give it a look and see if I can fit it in my space. I like the price and look for sure.
I'm looking for something that probably can hold a larger number of smaller items, think Blu-ray/DVD/CD//Manga/comic books.

comic books are surpringly tall - i have standard trade paperbacks that don't fit in my bookcase, it's annoying.

Ikea won't ship - bummer

Anyone have patio furniture they like and that is durable enough not to need to be dragged in in bad weather?

I have just been awarded some discretionary carers personal budget funding for a new settee because my son keeps breaking furniture. He's not breaking it in anger, he's big, autistic and does lots of rocking back and forth and so on. It's really annoying that lots of wooden furniture is so overpriced and poorly built, especially that Ikea shite. I bought a single seater chair from them and it lasted 6 hours. I solved the problem of him breaking countless beds by getting a reinforced steel bed frame, which is actually cheaper than the wooden divan bed bases. It made me realise what a scam the bed manufacturing industry is. Staple together some low quality timber, put a sheet of cardboard on top - then sell that piece of crap for £400.

I went through nearly £600 worth of swivel chairs last year, he broke 4 of them! The final solution that he didn't manage to break was a rather scruffy and scuffed looking but solid and dependable 20 year old one I picked up from a charity shop for £16. I swear to god I'd rather just screw some wooden pallets together and put a cushion on top than waste another penny on substandard furniture.

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFyHJW0RVUtpds1jZ7ap1bJzPWdpYwbILr_OYkf31xFw7ekIwg

I'm just waiting for a grant to be paid into my bank to order this sofa. I didn't want one with cushions on the back because they end up getting permanently squashed and misshaped. The customer services woman didn't give me any sales bs or try to steer me towards a more expensive item and said we buy them from a Chinese company that manufactures them and they have a good rep and don't make any substandard crap. It's got a reassuringly high weight limit rating and doesn't look horrible. Briefly I did entertain the idea of getting 2 cheaper sofas from the £600 grant, but remembered the crap sofa I got from Argos that was literally broken the first day it arrived.

i've had furniture wear out over the last couple of years and yes, the bed frames were splintery wood with a cardboard top (the cardboard went when they got wet from a leak) and the sofa was chipboard, staples and foam (20+ year old foam deteriorated and where the staples were applied too close to the edge of the chipboard the chipboard has just crumbled).

the new bed, i don't trust the slats on it, fear they'd just snap if you're not distributing the weight evenly (i had one break on assembly, badly laminated). the new sofa is a "two seater" but only if the two are slim and/or friendly.

the extremely poor build quality of your average, quite pricey divan bed base in the UK is scandalous.

the good thing with reinforced steel bed bases is they are cheap and fold up if you are moving and have storage space under them. And will last a lifetime unless you are an olympic standard 10 times a day sex god, and then it would still take some *doing* to break the steel trellis that supports the mattress! And the divan fabric always ends up looking really shabby and worn out, even just after a year. And they are a pain in the arse to lug up the stairs.