I’ve been in the market for a good lamp for the music room, in fact, I need new lamps for a lot of rooms. Since we moved in (and even before) we’ve made a habit of buying the $9.99 Ikea lamps with paper shades when we need a little light, seriously, I think we have 4 of them. For the time being they work as good place holders, but those paper shades won’t last forever. Anyways, I am always searching through etsy for cool lamps. Here’s the coolest of the cool currently available on etsy today, and all for under $100. I wonder if any of them will end up being mine??
1. The Atomic Bowling Pin Lamp! $27.00 + $30.00 (for shipping)
2. Danish Diamond Lamp $58.00 + $22.00 (for shipping) – Don’t you love that diamond pattern?
3. 1960′s Teak Lamp $39.00 + $19.00 (for shipping)
4. White Textured Lamp $89.50 + $18.00 (for shipping) – Okay, so technically with shipping it’s over $100 but barley, and it’s pretty darn beautiful.
Cool Things,Decor
Oh man, I totally got all nerdy yesterday. After watching 2 episodes of Secrets from a Stylist I felt inspired to pretend I was a stylist (yeah right.) Anyway I went around and found all my pillows and tchotchkes set them all out in a pile and then practically put them back in the same spots I found them in. Also, I would never leave that sheepskin on the coffee table, that would just be weird and Jeff would laugh at me. I guess I’m just not there yet. Anyways, then I got my camera out and decided I would try my hand at taking some vignettes. Do I ever take vignette style photos? Answer: Barely ever. What I did discover, sometimes photos can make your stuff look way better than it does in real life. Also, vignettes are cool because you, the viewer, have no idea that there are toys and other crap all over this living room, you just can’t see it.
Around the House,Living Room,My House
I had taken a few photos around the house this weekend thinking I might try and do a post called “Inspired by the Royal Tenenbaum’s” or something weird like that, but when I went back to look at them this afternoon I realized that they weren’t really that Tenenbaumesque (which made me sad because I like to think my house aspires to be the blue smaller version of that house.) Instead I realized how similar the color themes were from room to room. Two of the photos were from the dining room, and two were from the new updated music room. This bright poppy coral color is something that’s showing up more and more around my house and is totally unintentional. I guess I’m just secretly drawn to the contrast between the muted greys and the bright red-orange, but seriously, why wouldn’t I be? Seeing it like this makes it look kinda awesome.
Anybody else have a secret color that keeps showing up in your space?
Around the House,Dining Room,My House
I am so excited to announce my new blog design powered by WordPress!
After 3 years at Blogger and a year of debating about the pros and cons of migrating, I finally went for it. It wasn’t easy, but I’m convinced it will be totally worth it. I am more than thrilled about how awesome the new home looks, functions and navigates. I’ve organized some of my most popular posts and added them to the navigation bar, updated the “About” page, and pimped out the “Around the House” page. Best of all everything is specifically categorized and archived for your viewing pleasure. I’ve tried to think about the readers first and foremost; I wanted the site to be a pleasant and visual navigating experience for anyone nice enough to stop by this little blog.
I’m still experiencing an internet hangover from all the coding and hours and hours of finding solutions to minor problems. Drop me a line if you notice any weirdness because I’m sure the site is not 100% perfect just yet.
Most importantly, please update your RSS feed if you followed me there! I had to migrate to a new feed (believe me I tried to get around this) so take note. You can now find the feed at Feedburner.
Here is the new link. Please resubscribe, I’d hate to lose ya.
I can’t wait to see where this new set-up will take me, thanks to everyone who stops by. Thanks again!
Awesomeness
Hi! Does anyone else love a good chair as much as I do? My collection has been growing and growing and is starting to get a little out of hand. I’ve been accumulating chairs for awhile but I took it to the next level over the last 2 months when I adopted 3.5 new chairs.
In November, I purchased the black Bertoia chair on craigslist to swap it out for the Eames arm chair that I had been using as desk seating. Then I wanted to put the mustard colored Eames chair in the living room with a new black & walnut rocker base. All very reasonable furniture moves. Then to my surprise, I won the Apartment Therapy Color Contest with the grand prize being 2 more Eames molded chairs with dowel bases. Yikes! I put the new white Eames chairs in the music room, but I wouldn’t doubt it if they got whisked off to a new room at any minute.
Anyhow, it’s looking like a chair explosion up in here. I need to start some sort of chair addiction program. I’m on probation. No more! If you see me trying to hoard more chairs slap my wrists. I know my husband would appreciate it.
Furniture
