Tuesday, June 21, 2011

another one

kind of obsessed with old leather chairs, if you haven't noticed.
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Monday, June 20, 2011

warm woods and white walls

this is some for serious drama

love those off-kilter cabinets!
same house, by the by.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

leather

great reuse project. could make a fab bench... maybe for the dinning room...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

oh anthro

went to anthropologie last weekend and fell in love with these little guys at $228 a pop:

i thought all hope was lost because, despite the being called kilim, they are make of woven recycled sari silk which sells for $16/160 yards of yarn and that is maybe enough yarn to knit half a side of one of these stools, which makes $228 sound like a bargain.
i was considering buying a kilim rug on ebay and chopping it up, but then i found a source for actual woven fabric at $12/yard and three yards would make two stools with fabric to spare. plus wood to make frames and foam padding, two would be well under $100.

i already have the spot picked out in my living room.

while i was drooling over them online (and checking dimensions (20"h x 18"d x 18"w, in case you were wondering) so i could get my knock offs just right) i found this guy:

who would also be relatively easy to make a knock off of for far less than the $998 price tag. if i found the reclaimed lumber (rather than buying it) it would just be labor - and paint if one so chooses.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

hook & stick


dude!


this awesomeness is virtually in our back yard (as in two hours away in indianapolis)
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