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Rick and Erik wrap up their conversation on beginners’ impovs and substitutions.
Also, we are looking for guests on the show to talk about their experiences as beginners in woodworking. Even if you have been doing it for a long time, we’d love to have you on the show.
Compact, light-hearted, adaptable and with a slot ‘ready made’ for stashing the laptop… Designed by George Nelson in 1958, the Swag Leg Desk by Vitra reveals its designer, not only master of the useful and the beautiful, but a rather handy futurist as well.
This post is about how I think great decoration should look like: Non-repeated Primary Colors (Purple, Orange, Yellow, Blue, Pink and Red) + Minimalist Spacial Distribution + Modern Pop Art.
Last week’s visit to the Molly Brown House Museum turned the Home Snob’s mind to canopy beds. There’s a striking one in Mrs. Brown’s house, in her daughter’s bedroom, known as “Helen’s Room.” It’s not the bed, per se, that’s striking, but the canopy. Its “ceiling” is made of cloth that’s gathered into a central rosette, a traditional treatment for canopy beds that are constructed with an open, square frame on top, like this one from Bernhardt. Helen’s rosette is larger than usual, which turns it into a real feature for the insomniac to gaze at, as opposed to a mere flourish.
Photo courtesy of Monmouth Plantation
To see it, you will need to visit The Molly Brown House Museum in person. But if Denver’s out of your way, Monmouth Plantation in Natchez, Mississippi, features similar ones (with smaller rosettes) in several of its guest rooms. (See photo at right.)
You don’t need to own an antebellum mansion or survive the sinking of the Titanic to afford a canopy bed like Helen’s.
The Sahara Eastern Canopy Bed will get you pretty close, as will the Hastings Poster Canopy Bed by Magnussen.
And a clean-lined, modern version called Hemnes can be had from IKEA for as little as $299.
What? IKEA? Yes! There’s nothing wrong with a low price tag, as long as the item is good. To see how good Hemnes can look, check out what Domino Magazine made of it in their August 2008 issue.
Make a canopy for roughly $200, and you’ll have a chic, up-to-date version of Helen’s bed for less than a one-night stay at the Carlyle. Room service not included.
http://interiordec.about.com/od/canopybeds/a/a_canopybed.htm
http://interiordec.about.com/cs/canopybeds/l/aacanopybedsb.htm
Do you ever read a word or say it outloud and the more you say/read it the weirder it becomes? I just got that when I wrote my title for this post, it didn’t look like I had spelt it right somehow. I often wonder where they came up with the names for a lot of things in life. Anywhoo…..
I took the baby and our doggie out for a long walk this morning. The baby woke up at 5am for a snack and then woke again at about 6:20am and that was that. She was up for good. So I thought why not start today with a big walk together. I have been planning on this for a few weeks now (taking them for walks 2-3 times a week) but needed a hat for myself, and a stroller umberella to protect Summer from the harsh sun rays. I finally bought those things last week. So now there are no excuses. It was a very hard slog to push the stroller back home as we live up a really steep hill….but then in the end, that part will be the part that benefits me most!
I have found a chair I really really would like to buy……
I don’t really know where I would put it…..but it’s lovely. I had the idea of making some lovely cushions to throw on it and I thought I could reupholster the seat part as it looks a bit crap as it is. Trouble is, it’s white. And with a 5 month old, who will soon be crawling around and hauling herself up to stand (all with sticky dirty fingers) it probably isn’t the best piece of furniture to be inviting into the home. It’s very very affordable and it would look so nice……I dunno…….
? Em ?
