musique d’ameublement [Furnishings! Interior and Exterior Design!]

pooka

If you're uninterested in discussing furniture or architecture, but you do enjoy percussion, watch this while I get this party started:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wA_nLJD-UE

For a long time, I considered becoming an interior designer or decorator, but figured that was too much math or schmoozing that I wasn't willing to do at the time. English majors. Still, I retain a fondness for architectural drawings and mood boards and ogling buildings and interiors and DIY in general; let's not discuss my stack of old Architectural Digests, Woodworking and various design and decorating books scattered around. Alternately, let's!

Let me tell you about my collection of rug books...

I have yet to settle on a preference for one period or style, though Arts and Crafts is beyond charming; I look for older houses and apartments – lots of wood floors, Art Deco detailing and the like – though you wouldn't guess it by our furnishings. Our decorating scheme is “Early College.”

Budget be damned, I find myself lusting after Mid-Century Modern (/ filtered Bauhaus) designs. To wit:


the Diamond lounge chair, originally designed by Harry Bertoia


the Barcelona chair, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


50 bucks, via Craigslist, kindofwant

Rather behind on my links, but sites I've enjoyed:

http://www.the-brick-house.com/ (love her style)
http://www.doorsixteen.com/
http://www.designsponge.com/
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/
http://www.desiretoinspire.net/
http://padstyle.com/top-25-interior-design-furniture-blogs
http://www.younghouselove.com/

So, what kind of furniture do you like? Which designs do you wish had knock-offs, what niche do you plan to fill with DIY? What amazing thrifts have you scored, or kick yourself for passing on?

Do you love Brutalist buildings and the Chicago school? (Me, too!) Are you building a log cabin, or drawing your dream castle with secret passageways?

Here's my shitty pinterest board of furniture (very limited.) Please share your own, so I can steal your inspiration like a meme-vampire!

pooka

@t4ct

what was that thing you were mentioning in the beauty thread?

Uriel

We just got some new furniture second hand, it clashes horribly with the rest of the room but eh, it was free.

Other than that I need a chair for my computer that doesn't collapse under me

T4CT

100% YES

ANOTHER FANTASTIC THREAD

T4CT

ahhhhh now when I buy my new stuff I know where I can put it yes

unfortunately it will be IKEA furniture because I a) enjoy IKEA and b) am a poor college student

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Uriel

I like modern and functional furniture designs but am not so into it that I wanna drop mad bills.

So I will sit on my comfortable yet garish floral print chair.

Tef

Goona buy

so

much

new furniture once I move into my new place. I'm not gonna move much of my current furniture into the place I just have to decide on what i want it to look like...

pooka

Craigslist ("for sale" --> "free" or "furniture" listings)
Habitat for Humanity ReStore
thrift / junk / jumble shops -- local or chains like Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, DAV, Savers/Value Village; yelp will have some good listings for what's in your area.
furniture liquidators -- we have a local one that gets tons of hotel furniture and sells it pretty cheap.
also, with college still ramping up, and summer ending, there will probably be lots of yard and garage and estate sales, so look for listings or just drive around a bit.

basically all of my furniture has been given to me, or i literally dumpstered it. free is hard to trump!

tynic

oh yes i like this thread!

Clint Eastwood

http://www.thefancy.com/home

A lot of this stuff is wildly impractical but it's still fun!

interrobang

I want to build an entire house out of Vitsoe shelving

Tef

good god I want everything on that website, Clint

Gimme all your decor ideas guys

pooka

@t4ct @interrobang

http://www.the-brick-house.com/2009/09/shelving-unit/
http://www.the-brick-house.com/2011/08/fauxdenza/

http://www.ikeahackers.net/
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/5282/list/DIY-Projects--9-Easy-ish--IKEA-Hacks
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-153136

Lost Salient

Just today I was thinking how Frank Lloyd Wright's houses were just impeccably stunning to be in.

I hate to say that being from somewhere in particular has influenced my architecture/design preferences but it's probably safe to say that I am a fan of the Chicago school and Prairie style.

Kadith

I built 75% of the furniture in my room.

It is the only way to go.

Quoth

Most of my bedroom set is West Elm

I lean towards an Asian aesthetic but with some modern and probably other styles mixed in that I don't have names for

Tef

Up until this new place I've been living with whatever the hell I've pieced together over the years. I'm excited to actually have a theme for once

lostwords

Love this thread! Most of my furniture is ikea. I like it, but I want more unique junk for my place

I've been eying this store for a few pieces: http://www.jellio.com/index.html

especially the cupcake coffee table and the ice cream sandwich bench. i basically wanna live in candyland

interrobang

pooka wrote: »

@t4ct @interrobang

http://www.the-brick-house.com/2009/09/shelving-unit/
http://www.the-brick-house.com/2011/08/fauxdenza/

http://www.ikeahackers.net/
http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/5282/list/DIY-Projects--9-Easy-ish--IKEA-Hacks
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-ikea-153136

oh christ

shelving porn

be still my heart

Raw Concrete

Oh man, good stuff. I'm a sucker for all kinds of furniture & design stuff, but especially modern. The Barcelona chair is one of my favorites, it's up there with designs I admire from Eames and Le Corbusier. And it's actually comfortable to sit in, never a guarantee with modern furniture.

Since we're on shelving, here are a few I find cool.

USM Haller. Great materials and industrial style.


Horm Sinapsi. An organic look. I like a lot of stuff from Horm, the Karim Rashid 'Tide' sideboard and Toyo Ito's collection particularly.

Usagi

I really like a lot of Apartment Therapy's style choices, I tend towards casual modern but comfortable stuff--and a lot of IKEA because it's cheap and easy and I'm a sucker for bright colors

Trying to curtail the urge to decorate, I need to keep unfucking our space first (too much junk & we're both bad about putting stuff away)

godmode

All of my furniture: Gifts from parents, Craigslist, or Wal-Mart

ThreeCubed

I used to love getting furniture for cheap on CL or free from the dumpster.

Until I discovered that all the nearby apartment complexes have had confirmed bedbug reports.

DouglasDanger

pooka wrote: »

Craigslist ("for sale" --> "free" or "furniture" listings)
Habitat for Humanity ReStore
thrift / junk / jumble shops -- local or chains like Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, DAV, Savers/Value Village; yelp will have some good listings for what's in your area.
furniture liquidators -- we have a local one that gets tons of hotel furniture and sells it pretty cheap.
also, with college still ramping up, and summer ending, there will probably be lots of yard and garage and estate sales, so look for listings or just drive around a bit.

basically all of my furniture has been given to me, or i literally dumpstered it. free is hard to trump!

this sounds like a good idea, but much of the east coast has bed bugs
so i am scared to death of getting furniture from someone else

interrobang

when i get my own place - and i mean my own own place, not an apartment i have to share with roommates - i want to strip it down to the fucking bone

give me matte-finished hardwood and pristinely white walls or give me death

Tef

DouglasDanger wrote: »

pooka wrote: »

Craigslist ("for sale" --> "free" or "furniture" listings)
Habitat for Humanity ReStore
thrift / junk / jumble shops -- local or chains like Goodwill, Salvation Army, St. Vincent de Paul, DAV, Savers/Value Village; yelp will have some good listings for what's in your area.
furniture liquidators -- we have a local one that gets tons of hotel furniture and sells it pretty cheap.
also, with college still ramping up, and summer ending, there will probably be lots of yard and garage and estate sales, so look for listings or just drive around a bit.

basically all of my furniture has been given to me, or i literally dumpstered it. free is hard to trump!

this sounds like a good idea, but much of the east coast has bed bugs
so i am scared to death of getting furniture from someone else

That's a lie propogated by furniture retailers to scare people into buying new

DouglasDanger

there's probably a bit of lie there, but there was a near-panic the week i was on vacation or something, thank the stars, at the hospital i work at at because of BED BUGS

our furniture is a hodge podge mish mash
most of the large items were gifts from family, some of it was theirs, a lot of it was found at yard sales

our kitchen table and chairs sort of match

and our dining room set, which we bought off the people we bought the house from, after much confusion, matches itself

Tef

oh hey I was just kidding

I was gonna come in here and post the moon landing was faked and 9/11 was an inside job but I had to go and do something

#pipe

I would like an Eames Chair very much please.

pooka

also, yeah, i don't think i have the lifestyle to justify that FancyBox or anything on the sites Raw Concrete linked, but there are a lot of cool things on there.

lostwords wrote: »

Love this thread! Most of my furniture is ikea. I like it, but I want more unique junk for my place

I've been eying this store for a few pieces: http://www.jellio.com/index.html

especially the cupcake coffee table and the ice cream sandwich bench. i basically wanna live in candyland

this does not surprise me.
!!! those gummi bear lights! i don't even like gummy bears that much, but i kind of want one to use as a night-light.

the GummiKing i find kind of terrifying. that thing is 4 feet tall.

ugh, man, i forgot about bedbugs. you poor things. i guess my next advice is to get non-upholstered furniture, and avoid termites. a couple months ago, someone found a bedbug at the library where i volunteer, and it was shut down for the next couple of days while the building got sprayed. i'm really glad it was caught early.

speaking of early (actually, not early, it is past my bedtime), i will post some pictures of my lamps and chairs once i clean up a bit more, ie tomorrow, maybe; it will still be cluttery, but i can at least make the gesture.

Kochikens

i have a new apartment to make pretty

I am so excited
fuckin favin this thread



speaking of lighting i want these

pooka

pipe, i have seen multiple Eames chairs around town -- it drives me crazy. and, one of 'em is in the window of the really nice vintage place, so odds are on it being authentic and mega-costly. i'm not even a fan of the design, i think it's just being that near to a Design Classic makes me covet it a little. but i'm also a bit obsessed with chairs.

interrobang

eames chairs are also hells of comfortable

Kochikens

damnit pooks


looking at this ikea hack stuff makes me wish i was handy

SporkAndrew

Kochikens wrote: »

damnit pooks

looking at this ikea hack stuff makes me wish i was handy

I always start out with the best intentions, then just make a mess of it or give up before I even start. I've got a bedside table that fit my HTPC perfectly underneath the TV, and I was all set to add doors and make it look nice.

For 3 years now it's sat, still clearly a bedside table.

Flay

The first place I interned at, everybody had Aeron chairs



I miss mine so much.

Arang

someone once told me my room looked like I had "bought all the cheapest stuff at IKEA"

it may even have been you, @pooka

but I like it anyway

Stareosarus

Oh man I love good home design!

There's been a couple of great online shelter magazines in the spirit of Domino that have been out for a few years. The top two are lonny and Rue. I also love Matchbook, but it's not strictly a shelter magazine.

And design*sponge has already been linked, some other great ones are Oh Joy!, and Wit & Whistle. Both are a mix of personal style and interior decorating.

Raw Concrete

Eames stuff is so great, Charles and Ray are fun to read about too. I love the lounge chair above, but I also like stuff from the ridiculously mid-century (and ridiculously expensive) La Chaise


To their molded plastic armchairs; I actually own a couple of these I bought on sale.


And then you get design riffs like this chair from LaPalma


re: the Herman Miller Aeron chair above. I like their Embody even more, the spinal detail is sorta goofy but it somehow works for me. Plus if you sit in one you can one up people who've only sat in an Aeron They're all kinds of adjustable.


A few links. DWR is pure midcentury furniture porn. Just don't look at the prices.
I also love browsing around architonic.com

Quoth

Anyone feel like doing a shelving scavenger hunt? I'm looking for something long and low to stick under a window

Has to be under 20" high, any length is fine