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IKEA, IKEA, IKEA! IKEA! The Most Beautiful Sound I Eeeeeeva Heard!
Inspired by the obsessive, but revolutionary, cyber hustler interior decorators over at Young House Love -- for $250 they do a mood board and furnish your room with links to cheap intarwebs furniture -- here's my shopping list finally consummated today. I can't do a mood board, but I do know porn when I see it. So I just pasted in the pix.
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Ohhhhh Shiny
I found a very acceptable Hollywood Regency starburst mirror for the fireplace wall in the Pillow Talk Room at Walmart. For $40. Don't hate me because I'm a scab beautiful.
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The Pillow Talk Room
Two thirds of the kitchen cabinets have their second coat of paint, Suzy Creamcheese blonde vanilla, and I have several coats meself. I was going to go til six but five hours is all I can manage. It's drudgery, and I have another coat to go.
You note in this pic, from Pillow Talk, in which Doris Day has a swinging career gal pad of about the era ( Read more... ) -
$100 for My Eero
I did absolutely nothing today, except bake beans and applesauce cookies and score the only 48-inch Saarinen (riiiiiiight) tulip table left on the planet for $100, on Craigslist, right up the street.
There was an online knockoff for $325, but they don't have the 48-inch ones any more and I was about to....spend $1300 for a real one? Not ( Read more... )
