The BIG AMAZING dining room chair restoration project has been moving along smoothly and we are nearing the finish. I will be posting a how to – but I have totally been referencing this great step by step instruction on how to remount shocks and refinish Eames shell chairs. So most of what I post may be a bit redundant for all you fancy restorers.
I can’t wait for them to be done. My arms are itchy from fiberglass dust.
A couple of lovely house guests gave me this pair of horse head bookends as a thank you for the awesome hospitality at the Brick House. The ceramic glaze was a bit sloppy (and not so aesthetically pleasing) but I liked the shape and I LOVE bookends.
I was a bit antsy and dissatisfied after a day of gravel and cement paver scouting. I was itching for an easy project….and there was leftover spray paint.
Oops.
They ran into my delicious glossy black spray.
I swear.
Ahhhhhhhh. Fabulous.
Domino (RIP) at some point featured this little bedroom with black sputnik chandelier.
(BTW – does anyone hate their new subscription to Architectural Digest? Yuck.)
I really like the look of a small sputnik counter balanced with a modern and minimal room. It keeps it looking sculptural and veers it away from kitschy atomic. I thought it might be fun to install a black sputnik in my bathroom and ended up buying a small vintage brass sputnik chandelier from Craigslist for $40.
Well, that was like 5 months ago. I don’t know if most people go through this pattern…like focus on one stupid thing and obsess obsess obsess. I do this ALL THE TIME and this week it was the stupid Sputnik.
I had a weird nervous breakdown about having the light lying around in my guest room and that maybe I wanted a different kind of light for the bathroom and oh god I need a new light for the kitchen and dammit where will I find a new light and WHAT WAS I GOING TO DO WITH THIS F*ING THING.
The solution.
F*ck the kitchen light, its coming down.
The Brick House’s kitchen came with this plain white metal light whose main talent seemed to be collecting dust (I cleaned about three inch layer of gross oily dustiness off of it when we first moved in. Ick.)
Here is the $40 vintage brass sputnik. The Craigslist selling couple pulled it out of their lovely mid century house when they started remodeling it to NOT look mid century – BOO. It was originally installed in their entryway. They told me that I just missed out on the really BIG light from the dining room. Oh well.
Before…and After. Glamorous.
And because I really like pictures…
Now I’m wondering if it should be black or BIGGER or if its just TOO retro in the already retro kitchen. I’m a big fan of mixing metals and would like to avoid being too matchy-matchy. Maybe it shouldn’t go in the kitchen. I could always install it in the guest bedroom and find something else for the kitchen…
See.
Obsessing never wins – you just don’t think very clearly. Now I’m obsessing on how I might not like it…I think I might have a wee bit of installers remorse. Although, I do like the sputnik a gazillion times more than the white lamp. I guess I can wait and see if a fabulous and perfect light pops up.
It must be perfect…eventually.
