Monday we went out east to The Girls retail store. They run estate sales, and also have a second hand store. They have a lot of stuff, some better than others. We finally have night stands! I've been all over the internet since we got here, and I am shocked to see what passes as "furniture" these days. Night stands are particularly bad price performers, they have drawers, drawers are expensive. Anyway we got night stands, at last They're wood. Something bad happened to the finish, it looks like they were sprayed with something. A strategically placed place mat solves the problem. I have no idea how old these are, clearly not modern styling. Don't care, we like them.
Place mat from Target covers the spots.
We also got an art. It's a huge, heavy piece. There is a large piece of glass, and a wood frame. It's doing an excellent job of covering up two really unattractive wall anchors. It's a little high on the wall, but the wall anchors have been covered.
It's a big print. Getting it up on the wall was nerve wracking.
The night stands were $88 for the pair, and the giant art was $16.50. Second hand for the win!
Yesterday we rode, good thing. The weather today was abysmal, very windy and cold. Yesterday was windy, but not as bad, and the sun was out. It was a gorgeous day.
That is the back of Jim's helmet.
A few clouds really moderate the light, makes things pretty.
You know what else comes in flat packs? Lamps. Refer back to the photo of the art over the bed with night stands. Those lamps came flat packed. The shades come collapsed and you use your thumbs to push the frame up and shape the shade. Today a new floor lamp arrived.
Here it is, bringing light to the living room. For what ever reason that I am sure I don't understand, the builder did not install a ceiling fan with lights. There is zero light in the ceiling. Eventually we'll get a fan with the lights, but thus far I don't know what to buy, and I need someone to install it. We've never done that and I don't want to. This photo is from the website, my phone does badly with lamps that are turned on. It has dispelled the gloom in the corner.
So, that's it. The orange menace continued on his path to world stupidity today. Nothing to see there.
The outdoors photos are magnif, as usual, love the land there!
ReplyDeleteYou have missed your calling - interior design by Allison- could have been a contender! Curios that the lamps came flat ina box with shades that pop open, Magic!
Excellent job with the nightstands! I don't have overhead lighting in my living room, family room or master bedroom. I have many lamps! It looks nice there. We got a beautiful day today too--low 50s and some blue sky and sun.
ReplyDeleteSecond hand is such a good way to go, often better built stuff. We have a Restore here, it's part of Habitat for Humanity. Lots of building stuff but lots of furniture too.
ReplyDeleteAnd the POS, I'm tired of him already.
I love those tables. Looking at them, I can tell that there is a lot of attention to detail there. Is there a maker on them? Maybe pull out a drawer and look underneath it. I'm curious, because I think you're going to find that this came from a high end furniture company.
ReplyDeleteI love furniture. If I had any kind of dream, it would be to open up a used furniture place. I even have a name for it.
Great purchases and they look so right in their places. Good secondhand pieces are hard to beat.
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