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Post by Lord Lucan on Aug 11, 2017 8:51:32 GMT -5
moimoi Oh, that is useful, given that I’m 1. Still haven’t hung anything in my bedroom, which has a lot of bare wall space 2. Trying to start painting/drawing again, so may well have a lot—maybe too much—to potentially fill it I'd be interested to hear about/see people's art collections - both purchased and created. I don't have the funds for original artwork, but my diy efforts have been pretty successful: I did a kind of sculptural paper flower canvas in my foyer with stuff from the Dollar Store that gets lots of compliments and I re-purposed one of those confessional booth grates over a colored canvas to cover a big empty spot on the living room wall, which compliments the vintage church bench I refurbished in the dining room. The living room also has a triptych arrangement of 1. a vintage lithograph of a pensive lady I found at a flea market 2. a small woodblock print I got off Ebay (I have two more woodblock prints from my travels custom framed in my 'office') 3. a print sketch by Klimt that kind of looks like me. I want to get a picture light over the middle print to complete the vignette. Oh, and I got a little custom stained glass inset in my front door to replace the weird shutters the previous owners put up. In the dining room, I have a really fabulous framed print of I Saw the Figure #5 in Gold by Charles Demuth as the focal point on one wall, a print of my favorite Chicago skyline view by a local printmaker (OK, I guess that's original artwork) across from it, and a mini gallery of 1. a vintage bollywood poster print 2. a diy printout of Georgia O'Keefe's Red Poppy and 3. a limited edition Miró print taken from Parler Suel, his book of illustrated poems with Tristan Tzara. I'm really proud of how my diy framing for the latter turned out. And I'll cop to selecting artwork by color here - I wanted reds, oranges, and yellows to stimulate the appetite (so they say) in my deep blue dining room. The hallway has two antique maps of Asia and India that I got at the flea market in Bethesda, MD - framed in Cairo - as well as a photo of an illuminated page of the Quran from Cairo's museum of islamic art, which is covering up a spot the previous owners forget to paint overhead. The kitchen has some framed vintage postcards from Kew Garden, as I've mentioned, and so far, the guest room just has a print of a Whistler seascape. That leaves my 'office' and bedroom: I painted one wall of my 'office' black to act as a gallery for stuff I didn't want to frame, including gig posters made by friends, postcards from my travels, loteria cards (I collect them), and other cool-looking stuff. In addition to the woodblock prints, (one picked up at the Kyoto National Museum and one from Liberty department store in London), I have four Erte prints cut out from an old coffee table book in matching frames. My room kind of looks like crap because I refuse to paint it until after I renovate, but I've managed to cover the hideously colored walls with a mini gallery that so far includes 1. a small print postcard, signed by the artist from the Peacock Room's Filthy Lucre exhibit 2. a print of Van Gogh's Almond Blossom and 3. a print of a vintage peacock illustration from Scribner's (my bedroom decor is inspired by Whistler's Peacock Room). please ignore the mess - now you know from whence I post! Until I renovate, the only empty spot in the house is over the guest bed. As of late, I've been putting most of my effort into landscape and garden design. But it is interesting to consider how my tastes have evolved with age. My first apartment was decorated with LP sleeves and club flyers - very retro/futuristic. When I moved to DC, I wanted everything calm and spa-like, so I had prints of nature from the Smithsonian and a lot of handicrafts brought back from Asia. Now I finally have enough space to display all my eclectic interests and influences - hopefully while maintaining the architectural integrity of my vintage bungalow. I don't like the idea of living in some sort of prairie-style arts & crafts museum, especially because back in 1920 that's not how my ancestors lived (...in colonial India). However, I think one's design approach should consider the history of the house as well as your own personal history. I use historically accurate paint colors as much as possible and try to stick with prewar styles like late-Victorian (living room), Art Nouveau/Arts & Crafts (guest room), Art Deco (bathroom someday), etc. It helps that I have all the original decorative brass doorknobs and some decent hardwood floors. And certainly, a lot of my design decisions were based on budget - I'm always going to look at what I have or what I could make before buying some crap just to put on the wall. Truly, everything in my house has a story, and that's the way I like it! It's admirable to have decor in every room in a home to furnish the material for great thought and conversation.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 11, 2017 8:54:38 GMT -5
moimoi , I wish you would come decorate my place! I have all kinds of quilts and wall hangings (courtesy of my mom) and some art that I like, and yet nothing is on the walls! I've been here 2.5 years. Aw man, you gotta do something with the quilts. There is so much technique that goes into those, plus they have a story. I like my textiles folded over the ends of beds and the arms of chairs and sofas. If you have space to frame and mount a small one, that would be cool too, but just pick one so it doesn't start to look like you live in a blanket fort :-) Okay, I lied - I do have two things out - a lap quilt folded over one chair and a crocheted blanket over the other. And I change out the quilt on my bed several times a year. (I currently have 3 bed-size quilts.) I really need to pull everything out and take pictures so I can post them.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 8:57:22 GMT -5
okay okay okay: liz n dick - I pinned that very kitchen when looking for inspiration to redo the kitchen in my basement. I am torn as to whether the checked ceiling would enhance or detract from a low basement ceiling, though. not a real doctor - I want to redo my main bathroom in a similar style: white subway tile and penny tile on the floor with black accents (my inspiration is b&w art deco-cecil beaton). But I denounce pedestal sinks - totally impractical outside of a powder room. Here's the inspiration: www.antiquehomestyle.com/inside/bathrooms/1920s/gallery/page08.htmAnd here are some ideas I'm kicking around: Holy shit that shower is AMAZING
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 8:58:01 GMT -5
Since the leaves returned to the trees this past spring, I've been wondering why grass green/sky blue is not a more frequent color pairing. Nothing makes me happier than a glorious blue sky and bright green grass... so why not decorate a room in those colors? This kitchen is proof! sry I am totally swiping this colour scheme.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 11, 2017 9:32:43 GMT -5
okay okay okay: liz n dick - I pinned that very kitchen when looking for inspiration to redo the kitchen in my basement. I am torn as to whether the checked ceiling would enhance or detract from a low basement ceiling, though. not a real doctor - I want to redo my main bathroom in a similar style: white subway tile and penny tile on the floor with black accents (my inspiration is b&w art deco-cecil beaton). But I denounce pedestal sinks - totally impractical outside of a powder room. Here's the inspiration: www.antiquehomestyle.com/inside/bathrooms/1920s/gallery/page08.htmAnd here are some ideas I'm kicking around: Holy shit that shower is AMAZING My goal is to one day re-enact that scene from Mommie Dearest when Joan Crawford/Faye Dunaway backs into the shower with an indescribable look on her face. That's the stuff
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 11, 2017 9:38:45 GMT -5
Batten down the hatches! Settle in with a big drink and comfy shoes! It's time for a miles-long post about the wall decor of stately Dick n Hisses Manor! We call our style "Modwardian", which really just means "unfocused eclecticism" (or "cluttered"), but sounds like maybe there's a philosophy behind it. The inspiration for our wall art is Sir John Soane's Museum, a stuffed-to-the-gills, floor-to-ceiling maximalism. The reality is... less so. For one thing, we don't have nearly enough stuff! And another huge part of our problem is that we hang stuff up willy-nilly, then have a rotating collection of framed seasonal needlework, which we then try to hang on the existing nails with varying degrees of aesthetic success. We've been talking about it for years, but I think it's actually on the agenda in 2018 to get picture rail molding. That should make things look a lot better. Anyway, easily 50% of what we have up in the main rooms of the house is needlework. Cross-stitch and blackwork going back to Boomer's childfree days in the '70s, a huge glut of stuff from our reproduction sampler cross-stitch era, and now needlepoint. Some of it is year-round material, others are seasonal. Here you can see a prime example of the "some seasons' frames don't fit nearly as well onto these nails as the first one's did" needlework phenomenon. This is the wall in our front hall above the purse-and-keys table, with a cluster of various summertime counted cross-stitch pieces: We have a relationship with a framer at a stitching store out in Arizona, and with our Soane House inspiration in mind, we give her free rein to frame our pieces however she wants, but within a parameter of "dark wood". (Apologies for all these shitty pictures, by the way. I have a new computer and don't have my photo processing software on it yet.) Here's one of our more troublesome walls in the living room, looking actually surprisingly functional this summer. The middle pieces are the only seasonal ones in this particular vignette -- the owl is a cross-stitch Boomer made in the '70s and it used to have pride of place right inside the door in the front hall (more on that later), the cat puke needlepoint is recent and makes a year-round statement about the quality of life with our housemates, and the peacock is a collage by a local artist (more on that later): More in the living room -- a signed Charley Harper lithograph and a Greg Dulli concert poster over the record player;over the cluttered mantle, an actual original painting (a triptych-influenced sfumato-heavy landscape on stucco) from an actual fancy gallery... and an etsy-commissioned portrait of Hegle. We are still on the hunt for more pieces to fill in the space: We lived out in Arizona for a few years in the early '00s, and kind of enjoyed flinging ourselves into a Western-heavy Modwardian concept there, inspired by a love of '50s Western movies/TV and American frontier history and a really cool vintage movie poster gallery in Scottsdale. We've got a few B-western posters (and an enormous Hopalong Cassidy three-sheet that I didn't get a picture of this morning because it's in our downstairs "summer room", which is in no shape for public viewing) and some framed textiles and ephemera, most of which is hanging in the various hallways/staircases in our '50s split-level. I have my own faves, but this barbed wire piece gets the most comment: In the kitchen we have probably the most cohesive "gallery wall" in the house, in that all the frames seem to fit in the spaces they're in. This has got a couple of cheap prints from etsy framed expensively, a print from the Chelsea Physick Garden, and an enamel tile of San Pasqual (patron saint of the kitchen, I'm told?) I got at a cheesy street art fair in Carefree, AZ. The centerpiece is the poster we inherited from our grandmother back in 2008; she'd had it hanging in her house as long as we could remember, and when the place was packed up after she died, no one else wanted it. We've since learned the artist is Bjorn Wiinblad, I've seen that very poster in a "these people are so cool, look at their cool house" spread in a magazine, and we've gotten another of his posters for the front hall (kicking Boomer's owl into the living room): In another corner of the kitchen we have more vintage stitching of Boomer's, more cheap etsy prints framed expensively, and a series of paintings done by a friend. Our aunt is an incredibly chic woman with a gorgeously (professionally) decorated house, and she's got a couple of small paintings of pears on her kitchen windowsill. A friend of ours fancies himself an artist, so we commissioned a series of small pear paintings to emulate our aunt, and he made those (hanging in our dining room now) and then surprised us with a set of apples as well, which you see here. They didn't quite nail the essence of the originals, but I love them because they came from our friend. (You can also see Jurassic Plate, the vintage-plate cookie stand where all the plastic dinosaurs that get packaged with Photojojo orders are displayed. Also, the dinner gong. And a bunch of little seasonal cross-stitch ornaments that Boomer churns out with alarming frequency.): Currently my favorite piece in the house is the original painting we have in the Pretty Princess Room, which is the spare bedroom-turned-stitching studio. We painted fairly saturated colors on all the walls in the house, and got to that room last. We wanted to go with something sort of dusty, dark pink (the hallway outside is chocolate brown, so that seemed like a cool combo), but ended up with something more sickly purple-pink. But we were so burned out on painting at that point that we just ran with it; and so the Pretty Princess Room was born. Imagine our surprise when we went out to lunch one day at a brewpub that displays local artists on the walls, and we were seated under a painting that was clearly meant to hang on those purple-pink walls, in our artsy-craftsy HQ! This room is a major, major work in progress, but this is what's going to anchor it: Finally, the heraldic animal of stately Dick n Hisses Manor is the peacock, so we never say no to peacock wall art. There was the collage in the living room mentioned above, a sundial in the front yard, a handful of stitching pieces not pictured... and a smattering of cheap etsy prints (again, framed expensively. We have a great framer nearby, but oh my god so expensive. This is why our floor-to-ceiling goal hasn't been realized yet). These are in the dining room, in my room, and in Hugs's room, respectively): So... yeah, that's an overview. There isn't a wall in our house that doesn't have multiple framed pieces on it, and very few of them have anything to do with each other. The house itself is a '50's split level that was added to and renovated many times over the years; it doesn't have any particular architectural charm or period character. Is just house. So our scattershot approach isn't doing it any particular injustice, which I guess is one attribute I should like about the place. I don't feel any pressure to match the vibe of the building! (And seriously, the light in the house this morning was disastrous. I swear it doesn't look nearly as much like a cave as these pictures make it seem. Yes, it looks like a dump, but not a cave!)
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 11, 2017 9:39:35 GMT -5
Okay, I lied - I do have two things out - a lap quilt folded over one chair and a crocheted blanket over the other. And I change out the quilt on my bed several times a year. (I currently have 3 bed-size quilts.) I really need to pull everything out and take pictures so I can post them. Please do! I want to see the quilts!!
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Post by Incense on Aug 11, 2017 10:47:51 GMT -5
Batten down the hatches! Settle in with a big drink and comfy shoes! It's time for a miles-long post about the wall decor of stately Dick n Hisses Manor! We call our style "Modwardian", which really just means "unfocused eclecticism" (or "cluttered"), but sounds like maybe there's a philosophy behind it. The inspiration for our wall art is Sir John Soane's Museum, a stuffed-to-the-gills, floor-to-ceiling maximalism. The reality is... less so. For one thing, we don't have nearly enough stuff! And another huge part of our problem is that we hang stuff up willy-nilly, then have a rotating collection of framed seasonal needlework, which we then try to hang on the existing nails with varying degrees of aesthetic success. We've been talking about it for years, but I think it's actually on the agenda in 2018 to get picture rail molding. That should make things look a lot better. Anyway, easily 50% of what we have up in the main rooms of the house is needlework. Cross-stitch and blackwork going back to Boomer's childfree days in the '70s, a huge glut of stuff from our reproduction sampler cross-stitch era, and now needlepoint. Some of it is year-round material, others are seasonal. Here you can see a prime example of the "some seasons' frames don't fit nearly as well onto these nails as the first one's did" needlework phenomenon. This is the wall in our front hall above the purse-and-keys table, with a cluster of various summertime counted cross-stitch pieces: We have a relationship with a framer at a stitching store out in Arizona, and with our Soane House inspiration in mind, we give her free rein to frame our pieces however she wants, but within a parameter of "dark wood". (Apologies for all these shitty pictures, by the way. I have a new computer and don't have my photo processing software on it yet.) Here's one of our more troublesome walls in the living room, looking actually surprisingly functional this summer. The middle pieces are the only seasonal ones in this particular vignette -- the owl is a cross-stitch Boomer made in the '70s and it used to have pride of place right inside the door in the front hall (more on that later), the cat puke needlepoint is recent and makes a year-round statement about the quality of life with our housemates, and the peacock is a collage by a local artist (more on that later): More in the living room -- a signed Charley Harper lithograph and a Greg Dulli concert poster over the record player;over the cluttered mantle, an actual original painting (a triptych-influenced sfumato-heavy landscape on stucco) from an actual fancy gallery... and an etsy-commissioned portrait of Hegle. We are still on the hunt for more pieces to fill in the space: We lived out in Arizona for a few years in the early '00s, and kind of enjoyed flinging ourselves into a Western-heavy Modwardian concept there, inspired by a love of '50s Western movies/TV and American frontier history and a really cool vintage movie poster gallery in Scottsdale. We've got a few B-western posters (and an enormous Hopalong Cassidy three-sheet that I didn't get a picture of this morning because it's in our downstairs "summer room", which is in no shape for public viewing) and some framed textiles and ephemera, most of which is hanging in the various hallways/staircases in our '50s split-level. I have my own faves, but this barbed wire piece gets the most comment: In the kitchen we have probably the most cohesive "gallery wall" in the house, in that all the frames seem to fit in the spaces they're in. This has got a couple of cheap prints from etsy framed expensively, a print from the Chelsea Physick Garden, and an enamel tile of San Pasqual (patron saint of the kitchen, I'm told?) I got at a cheesy street art fair in Carefree, AZ. The centerpiece is the poster we inherited from our grandmother back in 2008; she'd had it hanging in her house as long as we could remember, and when the place was packed up after she died, no one else wanted it. We've since learned the artist is Bjorn Wiinblad, I've seen that very poster in a "these people are so cool, look at their cool house" spread in a magazine, and we've gotten another of his posters for the front hall (kicking Boomer's owl into the living room): In another corner of the kitchen we have more vintage stitching of Boomer's, more cheap etsy prints framed expensively, and a series of paintings done by a friend. Our aunt is an incredibly chic woman with a gorgeously (professionally) decorated house, and she's got a couple of small paintings of pears on her kitchen windowsill. A friend of ours fancies himself an artist, so we commissioned a series of small pear paintings to emulate our aunt, and he made those (hanging in our dining room now) and then surprised us with a set of apples as well, which you see here. They didn't quite nail the essence of the originals, but I love them because they came from our friend. (You can also see Jurassic Plate, the vintage-plate cookie stand where all the plastic dinosaurs that get packaged with Photojojo orders are displayed. Also, the dinner gong. And a bunch of little seasonal cross-stitch ornaments that Boomer churns out with alarming frequency.): Currently my favorite piece in the house is the original painting we have in the Pretty Princess Room, which is the spare bedroom-turned-stitching studio. We painted fairly saturated colors on all the walls in the house, and got to that room last. We wanted to go with something sort of dusty, dark pink (the hallway outside is chocolate brown, so that seemed like a cool combo), but ended up with something more sickly purple-pink. But we were so burned out on painting at that point that we just ran with it; and so the Pretty Princess Room was born. Imagine our surprise when we went out to lunch one day at a brewpub that displays local artists on the walls, and we were seated under a painting that was clearly meant to hang on those purple-pink walls, in our artsy-craftsy HQ! This room is a major, major work in progress, but this is what's going to anchor it: Finally, the heraldic animal of stately Dick n Hisses Manor is the peacock, so we never say no to peacock wall art. There was the collage in the living room mentioned above, a sundial in the front yard, a handful of stitching pieces not pictured... and a smattering of cheap etsy prints (again, framed expensively. We have a great framer nearby, but oh my god so expensive. This is why our floor-to-ceiling goal hasn't been realized yet). These are in the dining room, in my room, and in Hugs's room, respectively): So... yeah, that's an overview. There isn't a wall in our house that doesn't have multiple framed pieces on it, and very few of them have anything to do with each other. The house itself is a '50's split level that was added to and renovated many times over the years; it doesn't have any particular architectural charm or period character. Is just house. So our scattershot approach isn't doing it any particular injustice, which I guess is one attribute I should like about the place. I don't feel any pressure to match the vibe of the building! (And seriously, the light in the house this morning was disastrous. I swear it doesn't look nearly as much like a cave as these pictures make it seem. Yes, it looks like a dump, but not a cave!) Oh my GOSH. So much to respond to. I'm so glad you did this! And this weekend sometime, after I've had a chance to clean, I'll post a few things too. I am 100% down with floor-to-ceiling gallery walls. I have a similar philosophy. And much like you, some of my stuff is needlepoint (cross-stitch) I or my friends did, and some is photos my friends or I took, etc. The personal touch! I love the way you filled your walls, and so many of the things you've chosen. Some of my favorites from the above are: all the needlework in the first pic (lovely work), ALL of the peacocks, the Charley Harper, that first Bjorn Wiinblad print especially and the little green and red (needlepoint?) to the bottom left of it, and the Paradise Colored Pencils painting. Everything is interesting and works together so well!
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 11, 2017 12:21:15 GMT -5
I'm going to come back tonight and look at all the pictures but in the interest of keeping this thread from bogging down on my slow laptop at home, can we delete the repeat pictures when we post a reply? Maybe just leave one or two that you're talking about but otherwise just leave the comment. Does this sound okay?
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Post by Incense on Aug 11, 2017 12:30:01 GMT -5
Yeah, sorry - I thought about doing that while I was responding and forgot to do it. Yoiu're totally right. Edited!
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 13:13:24 GMT -5
Oh nooooooo you guys I just discovered that if you put "<descriptor> colour palette" into an image search you can waste a lot of time. Cuban bright colour palette
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 13:13:46 GMT -5
I'm going to come back tonight and look at all the pictures but in the interest of keeping this thread from bogging down on my slow laptop at home, can we delete the repeat pictures when we post a reply? Maybe just leave one or two that you're talking about but otherwise just leave the comment. Does this sound okay? Oh sorry, yup!
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Post by moimoi on Aug 11, 2017 19:41:45 GMT -5
Not quite an interior design idea, but saw this today on an Atlas Obscura post about the Ecopods of Argyll & BUTE, Scotland and it really brought me back to my high school dreams of living in some kind of advanced, dome or dome-like dwelling with awesome modernist furniture. Might I recommend, if you haven't seen it, It's Lonely In the Modern World? I think it hits a bit close to home for some, but I find it amusing, and rather informative.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 11, 2017 20:42:54 GMT -5
We've been talking about it for years, but I think it's actually on the agenda in 2018 to get picture rail molding. That should make things look a lot better. Love this idea. Guys, these pictures and the colors in your house are great (I'll take purple-pink over Millennial pink any day). I'm impressed by your Charley Harper and I was most interested to learn about Bjørn Wiinblad. I think I have seen some of his illustrations or books at The Sweden Shop - a place you should definitely visit the next time you're in Chicago - it very much fits your aesthetic. And speaking of Etsy, I forgot to mention a couple of cute prints I got from an artist in Spain who does little literary-themed collages. I got one of Virginia Woolf at Monk's House in winter and Vanessa Bell at Charleston Farmhouse in summer. I think I'm going to pick up one of Beatrix Potter at Hill Top in the rain... I love this thread! I could talk about art & design forever! Especially architecture, textiles, graphic arts/illustration/printmaking!
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 23:28:09 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 11, 2017 23:34:13 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it. Ooooh, I like! Would you play up the nautical angle, the natural wild kingdom angle, or the hentai angle?
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 11, 2017 23:47:15 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it. Ooooh, I like! Would you play up the nautical angle, the natural wild kingdom angle, or the hentai angle? Maybe the STEAMPUNK angle.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Aug 12, 2017 6:13:11 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it. ...and now my wife wants that rug.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 12, 2017 10:32:01 GMT -5
I want this rug. It will require a living room repaint, new curtains, & a new couch or at least slipcover. But I want it. ...and now my wife wants that rug. *high fives your wife*
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Post by moimoi on Aug 12, 2017 22:16:14 GMT -5
We've been talking about it for years, but I think it's actually on the agenda in 2018 to get picture rail molding. That should make things look a lot better. Are you going to get real functional rails like this? Technically, I have these in two rooms with plaster walls, but they'd only work in the bedroom. I'll have to see how much the hanging apparatus costs.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 13, 2017 16:22:57 GMT -5
Are you going to get real functional rails like this? Technically, I have these in two rooms with plaster walls, but they'd only work in the bedroom. I'll have to see how much the hanging apparatus costs. I really like picture rails. I'm thinking I'll do one around the dining room in the new place.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 13, 2017 17:14:05 GMT -5
I think I'd like to have like a plate rail about 3/4 up the wall, where I can just lean art against the wall. I don't really want all those wires showing. Not that I live in a place I could do that - apartments tend not to appreciate nail holes everywhere.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 14, 2017 10:13:38 GMT -5
Are you going to get real functional rails like this? Technically, I have these in two rooms with plaster walls, but they'd only work in the bedroom. I'll have to see how much the hanging apparatus costs. Our hope is for something really simple and very close to the ceiling. We don't have high enough ceilings to do anything that isn't integrated immediately into the molding at the top of the wall, so my vision is of something more like this: I mean, technically, yes, exactly what you're talking about. Just without any space above it on the wall. As for the hanging apparatus, there are scads of hooks available on amazon, and they seem relatively inexpensive!
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 14, 2017 10:17:56 GMT -5
I think I'd like to have like a plate rail about 3/4 up the wall, where I can just lean art against the wall. I don't really want all those wires showing. Not that I live in a place I could do that - apartments tend not to appreciate nail holes everywhere. I love the wires! Make the place look more like a museum!
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 14, 2017 10:26:08 GMT -5
Are you going to get real functional rails like this? Technically, I have these in two rooms with plaster walls, but they'd only work in the bedroom. I'll have to see how much the hanging apparatus costs. Our hope is for something really simple and very close to the ceiling. We don't have high enough ceilings to do anything that isn't integrated immediately into the molding at the top of the wall, so my vision is of something more like this: I mean, technically, yes, exactly what you're talking about. Just without any space above it on the wall. As for the hanging apparatus, there are scads of hooks available on amazon, and they seem relatively inexpensive! Do we all love this room, like, in general? I'll cry if we don't.
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Post by Liz n Dick on Aug 14, 2017 11:07:24 GMT -5
Do we all love this room, like, in general? I'll cry if we don't. I do love that room on principle, but I find that the Craftsman thing just doesn't work for me at all in a functional real-life way. I can't commit to any one aesthetic, and that's one that, to me at least, doesn't play very well with others. So I can merely admire other people's Craftsman styling from afar, and then go back to my own hodgepodge home of mish-mash mishegas.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Aug 14, 2017 11:12:39 GMT -5
Do we all love this room, like, in general? I'll cry if we don't. I do love that room on principle, but I find that the Craftsman thing just doesn't work for me at all in a functional real-life way. I can't commit to any one aesthetic, and that's one that, to me at least, doesn't play very well with others. So I can merely admire other people's Craftsman styling from afar, and then go back to my own hodgepodge home of mish-mash mishegas. "Dr. Notarealdoctor's 'Craftsman eclectic' home is featured in this month's issue of bachelor shanty living. It features hand-made wood endtables in the Stickley style, a couch from Ikea, and some curtains the cheap fuck bought from Amazon on curtain rods from Target"
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Post by moimoi on Aug 14, 2017 13:21:39 GMT -5
Do we all love this room, like, in general? I'll cry if we don't. I do love that room on principle, but I find that the Craftsman thing just doesn't work for me at all in a functional real-life way. I can't commit to any one aesthetic, and that's one that, to me at least, doesn't play very well with others. So I can merely admire other people's Craftsman styling from afar, and then go back to my own hodgepodge home of mish-mash mishegas. Agreed. Stickley furniture is not functional and it's an acquired taste (I admire the craftsmanship, but a lot of it looks like it belongs in a monastery). There are a lot of craftsman architectural details that I love, though.
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Post by Mrs David Tennant on Aug 14, 2017 13:49:54 GMT -5
I actually like the Mission-style recliner: www.lanefurniture.com/mission-high-leg-recliner. It's the chair I'm saving for - I would be able to choose the fabric from a really wide variety, which I like. Then I can just match my traditional loveseat that I haven't purchased yet to the fabric on the chair.
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Post by moimoi on Aug 14, 2017 20:31:00 GMT -5
My Arts & Crafts/Prairie obsession is mostly for William Morris and to a lesser extent, Frank Lloyd Wright (especially since his studio is just a few miles from my house). Check it: Wm. Morris this pattern on the left is in my guest room F.L. Wright March balloons Robie House, on the campus of U of C Oak Park studio interior
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