I know I was supposed to do organized spaces today, but the dreary weather has me wanting to curl up with a book (or go see a movie!) rather than rearrange closets, so today we’re going with reading nooks. Now where’s my tea?
Category Archives: Furniture
Montage: Ode to Eames – the Rocker
How can you not like the Charles and Ray Eames molded plastic rocker? It comes in pretty, yet practical colors, and like many mid-century modern pieces, works in a variety of rooms and settings. It’s whimsical but not cutesy. We have one in our son’s room on the Cape. It’s perfect for kids because it can’t be ruined, but it’s comfortable enough for Grandma to sit in too when she reads bedtime stories. Here’s an array of images, many from Flickr, but from magazines too.
Photos: Making It Lovely; Flickr; Living Etc; Made By Girl; Mid-Century Modernist; Hand; Flickr-it’s what I do. . .; Hand; Alan Kaplanas; Door16; Apartment Therapy Los Angeles; Flickr-Moakidi; Marie Claire Maison; Hand; Apartment Theapy; Lutterlagkage; KarstonLulloff; Katz residence; Skona Hem.
If you’re interested in purchasing an Eames rocker, Velocity Art & Design is offering 15% off items over $100, including the Eames rocker (regularly $479), through Store Adore (an amazing shopping site I happen to edit). Click here for the code.
Filed under . REGULAR FEATURES, Furniture, Montage, Rooms
Shopping: 1st Dibs’ Black and Chrome Room, $13,220
If only I had $13,220, I could put together this fabulous black & chrome room. As if that will ever happen. The crazy thing is, these pieces have all been reduced for the 1st Dibs Saturday Sale. At full price, the look comes to $21,741. Insane. Though, I do adore the 1950s Jules Leleu chandelier.
Shopping Guide
1950 Black and White Chandelier by Jules Leleu, $3,656, reduced from $7,312, 1st Dibs Paris
“Squiggle” Table Sculpture, $650, reduced from $1,250, Vol. 1 Antiques, 1st Dibs
Hound Dog Print, $2,800, reduced from $3,000, Liza Sherman, 1st Dibs
Vintage Black Bamboo Table, $2,750, reduced from $5,500, Downtown Joe Nye New York, 1st Dibs
1970s Living-Room Suite Edited by Airborn, $2,925, reduced from $3,802, 1st Dibs Paris
Two Chromed Metal Lamps, $439, reduced from $877, 1st Dibs Paris
Filed under Furniture, Home Accessories, Shopping
Get the Look: Tickled Pink
Shopping Guide
Artecnica Midsummer Light by Tjord Boontje, $43.99 at Lamp Lust
Thorsten van Elten Pigeon Light, $125 at Design Public
Pablo Tube Lamp, $110 at Velocity (Get a Store Adore discount!)
Snille Swivel Chair, $22.99 at IKEA.
Areaware Kitten Pico Pillow, $24 at Velocity
Fold Bedding Onion Pillow, $190 at inmod
Plastic Floormat by Koko Company, $50.40 at Burke Décor (Get a Store Adore discount!)
Curves Tufted Round Ottoman, from $93 at Exclusively Home
Outdoor Bean Bag, $69 at Pottery Barn Kids
Filed under . REGULAR FEATURES, Furniture, Get The Look, Home Accessories, Shopping
Montage: Nurseries
Quite a few of my friends have been busy having babies. First babies, second babies, third babies, and a fourth (eek!) baby. It’s the first time mommies that need to nest most, devoting the last few weeks of their pregnancy to making sure the nursery is perfect and that they have all the right equipment. (The friend on her fourth, she’s simply wondering where she stuck the stroller, and how’s she going to explain to #3 why it isn’t “lost” anymore.)
Words of advice to those of you going into this endeavor the first time around: Make sure the nursery is comfy – for YOU. Babies don’t sleep through the night – for YEARS sometimes. (It took a tonsillectomy at age 4 before my son slumbered soundly.) Make sure you have a comfy spot to nurse. Gliders are ugly, but they are really comfortable, and you can resell it when you wean.
Do you feel peaceful surrounded by the paint color? I chose a cheerful yellow for my first born (not knowing the sex) and I discovered really quickly that the color agitated rather than calmed me (and maybe him, who knows). Be sure to have a bookshelf, and a side table for all the water and juice you’ll need to drink to stay hydrated while the little guy suckles. And an ipod, and even a little television to get you through long nights. (First time around I was addicted to cheesy detective shows, from Matlock to Magnum. Second time it was HGTV.)
A mobile above the changing table and a little hook on which to hang the distraction toy you’ll hand her when she’s old enough to entertain herself, because she’s not going to suddenly enjoy having her diaper changed. That should get you through the first year.
I’ll do kids’ rooms with big boy and big girl beds soon.
Photos: Living Etc.; Domino; Domino; Domino; Domino; Coochicoos; Domino; Domino; Cookie; Flickr-cathinca; Cookie; Cookie; Flickr-magicmikas; Cookie; Cookie; Cookie; Flickr-magicmikas; Flickr-iancr; Flickr-douglasspics; Cookie; Cookie; photographer Justin Bernhaut; Flickr-house_n_baby; Flickr-Juliansmum; Flickr-innocentcharmer; Cookie; Cookie; Flickr-made-good; Flickr-veronikanika; Flickr-cathinca; Cookie; Flickr-carlinhouse; Cookie; Cookie; Flickr-keightyj; Boopalina + Bebe; Flickr-haqqy; Flickr-It’s what I do . . . ; Flickr-ali edwards; Flickr-minimarsh; Flickr-Frithmobiles-Modern Art Mobiles; Flickr-innocentcharmer; Sixx Design photographed by Costa Picadas; Apartment Therapy; Flickr-jennyology; Flickr-mixed palette.
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