I was glad for the vacation but Palm Springs was effing hot. HOT HOT. Walking on the sun hot.

So, what do you do when you need to scour the desert for vintage goodies? Well, you go to Koffi and you get a large honey & vanilla iced latte and hope that somehow the sugar and caffeine will get you crazy high enough to trudge through that very particular kind of musky thrift store heat without keeling over in sweaty puddle of despair. Yum, Koffi…I’m dreaming of you now…

We hit up the classic thrift store circuit around PS and came up with almost nothing for our troubles. It was very disappointing thrifting out there, maybe because of the holiday (lots of folks were out shopping) or maybe the heat was slowing down donations. Whatever it was, it made me sad and sweaty and wonder why I wasn’t floating in the pool instead of sorting through hot and heavy musty crap.

Enough already about the heat. I saw this dining set and LOVED the chair bases. The table? Not so much, but those six chairs…oh man.

Seventies brassy heaven.

Imagine this set of chairs reupholstered in a lovely textured cream bouclé and seated around a chunky modern farmhouse table with warm gray walls and a glam Stilnovo chandelier. Yeah. Tastiness.

At $248 the table set is pretty pricey, but if you break it down, that’s only about $42 a chair. On top of that you would have to add reupholstering – so all in all it would be a bit of an investment.

I kept running into things like this ottoman. It’s pretty much everything I dislike: the fussy legs, the maroon color, the faux antiqueness of it – but – I kind of liked how textured and soft the leather was and could imagine it as a coffee table or extra seating in an eclectic/modern living room. Maybe with the legs stained much darker.

Screw it, $125! Lameness.

That was the other thing we kept running into. Super high pricing for not so great crap.

This lamp is the thing I really regret not getting. If only it was cheaper…

It was French, it was a hardwired ceiling light and it pivoted in any direction that your little heart desired. I dreamed of using it in the pink bathroom or maybe in the office. At $125 it was just a tad too pricey for my budget and definitely not something we needed. Oh well, next time – hopefully the thrifting will be better.

I did pick up one goody. More on that later.