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August 30, 2006
Decorating the Erwin House
There is something terribly gratifying about the sconce on the stone wall.
My mom and I lived for a year with my grandparents when I was 4. I remember my grandfather's basement-turned-den: he had a fully-stocked bar with a collection of miniature liquor bottles, a number of model trucks from his days as a transportation manager for Altorfer Bros., and lots of chrome. The Rejuvenation Aloha on the stone wall is straight out of his basement, the light I later used to do homework by when I sat at the ladies' desk where my grandmother paid bills.
Next on the list: one of those spiky 60's wall clocks.
In the meantime, we're shopping for shams for the master bedroom. Since we didn't paint the game room in the classic aqua blue, I've been trying to use aqua in the bedroom. I'm not going for the West Elm tan and cornsilk that everyone loves, rather I'm looking for that crazy greenish blue of the space age.
I love this pattern from PillowsandThrows.com, but you can't buy the shams separately. We also liked some patterns from West Elm and Pier One, but finding just shams is going to be difficult. Wouldn't it be cool if there were a Formica-flavored boomerang fabric? A girl can dream.
Posted by Christiane at August 30, 2006 10:41 AM
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I don't know if you like to sew, but shams aren't too difficult and you can buy that exact fabric online... http://www.reprodepotfabrics.com/mxmndb.html
Posted by: erilyn at August 30, 2006 03:05 PM
Haha! that's exactly what I was going to say! I love reprodepot.
Posted by: caro at August 30, 2006 05:38 PM
Here's the current "official" version of the George nelson clock, now made by Vitra:
http://www.velocityartanddesign.com/gn1253r.html
My grandfather had one of the original walnut versions of that clock, bought when it was still manufactured by Howard Miller, a division of Herman Miller (George Nelson was the creative director of Herman Miller at one point). My father has the clock now, but to my horror my grandfather had removed the guts and power cord to convert the clock to battery power. He also painted the colored hands black at some point. Of course, he had no idea he had an original design icon by one of the leading Modernists. Oh well.
Posted by: Bruce at August 30, 2006 07:56 PM
we've used j and o fabrics several times. they have a good selection of atomic, mod and funky 60's fabrics. prices are usually the best and shipping is fast.
http://jandofabrics.com/categories.asp?id=7
Posted by: paul schuster at August 31, 2006 07:53 AM
Ha - I was just going to show you that fabric at repro depot too -- just hire ya a seamstress! Have fun decorating your fun house.
Posted by: Amy at August 31, 2006 09:51 PM
Sure you can buy the shams separate:
http://store.pillowsandthrows.com/nh1750shm.html
Posted by: Julia at September 1, 2006 09:19 PM
Okay, what is cheaper--buying the fabric and hiring a seamstress, or buying the sham for (gulp!) $70??
Posted by: Christiane at September 2, 2006 10:29 PM
For boomerang fabric, try www.melinamade.com.
Posted by: WeezyN at September 3, 2006 09:50 PM
*waving* Send me the fabric, give me dimensions & I'll make your shams.
Posted by: Aunt Gayle at September 5, 2006 10:37 PM
Yippee skippeeee!! I am so going to the fabric store today!
Posted by: Christiane at September 6, 2006 09:39 AM