lonny. meh?

*sigh*

kath kidston's place was...cute...cheery...bright..some of it would make my eyes bleed after a while...i did like the bedroom's color palette:

 mushroom, red and white with dark wood.

the walls (i think) are striaed.  i like this.  adds texture.

hate the motel 6 curtains.

junky bedside tables for a photoshoot..yay or nay?

some might say this is good bc it shows real living..

 

vincent wolf's montauk house..

homie loves to prop up a picture. (and a mirror)

pretty and relaxed as this place was, i was woefully bored.

 

the brougham fellow.

loved the brown plaid chairs.

unexpected and great with the deep gray.

a pretty vignette.

 

and the ryan korban designed space was lovely..

 

somebody boho jenschke:

that lamp is fantastic.

 

this place was giving us lots of west elm..

overall i did enjoy this place.

overall i enjoyed lonny.  just no supremelove.

better than this month's house (not)beautiful.

 

eye bleeder:

 

some thoughts:

rachel ashwell's london flat: was this some sort of homage?

it failed to inspire.

kath kidston's place got the most coverage while rachel ashwell's coverage was marginal.

i liked all of these spaces

..but i am starting to feel like maybe we are getting too many little shots of cups on a table filled with feathers...or......

while i like these shots and i get the point..

i feel somewhat frustrated by them.

do you hear me people?

thoughts?

 

design turd episode 8: repurpose reuse recycle reshart

here we are.

episode 8.

here's to hoping for a triple elimination next week so i can get back to looking at things that don't suck.

 

alright, so this week hopes were high that the turds each had their own room to decorate.

nope.

teams of 2.

the turds got a call from vern to go to some fancy restaurant and eat breakfast together.

then vern shows up in a sweatshirtblazer to tell them they had to design a dining room inspired by the meal they just ate. (which consisted of tropical fruit salad, heuvos rancheros, empanadas and tamales)

but that's not all!!

the room they were using was full of furniture and it was their job to reuse what was there.

then mandice showed up in another mancoat:

here is one of the spaces before:

we'll call it grandma's dusky beaver..

the other space was basically the same only more masculine.

we'll call it grandpa's musty nutsack.

there isn't a picture.

but use your imagination.

 

 

 

here's some inspiration:

you with me?

awesome.

so team granny is emily (huevos rancheros) and michael (tropical fruit salad).

here is their dining room:

kind of a snooze.

not sure who decided to tie those curtains back like that but i fucking hate it.

why couldn't they have let them hang??

it would have framed the window so much better.

emily made this groovy light fixture.

i have to give her props for this...though i don't see huevos rancheros...thank god??

up close it looks a little shoddy but the concept is brills.

she took fake flowers and glued them to the shade and then spray painted it all white to mimic porcelain.

while diy shit like this generally makes me want to vom i can appreciate homegirls efforts to make a statement fixture without the means to buy anything.

michael also did something awesome...

he took an existing mirror and glued a bunch of broken up granny tchochke angel head crap to it.

this is the result:

painting it black was a mistake simply bc you can't see the details..

and not very fruit salady either....thank god??

 

this scenario could have been better had they put more shit in it and opened the doors. the concept of taking ugly knick knacks and spray painting them was great..

curious...

where did the cole and son woods wallpaper come from?  pretty sure it wasn't inside granny's beaver....or...was....it? 

 

team grandpa was casey (tamale) and court (empanadas):

apart from courtland's very cool sconces made out of copper piping and a light bulb this room sucks buttholes.

the OBVIOUS eyesore being that fucking orange faux finished wall (i guess this is the empanada sauce?)

with the cheap looking folk art hanging on it..

and did they use the leftover eggplant paint from last weeks tuscan kitchen challenge?

yes, i see you too stupid fucking washboard hanging between the windows.

with all that dark brick why on EARTH would you go dark purple and dark stain and dark cabinet?

oh. and casey did the ottoman..or did....she??

 

 

here are your bottom 2:

 courtland goes home to his "girlfriend".

not sure why michael is there.

but i really don't fucking care at this point.

my guess is casey wins.

 

 

 

i think i might learn more about politics..

 i am halfway thru the first episode of RHODC and i feel levels of excitement tantamount to a creme brulee IV or robert pattinson in a towel holding a basket of red velvet cupcakes and massage oil.

have you watched yet?

so far everyone sucks so good.

let's meet 'em!

stacie.

married with kids. real estate agent. thinks she's the second coming of obama.

loves tyra banks.

 

michaele. 

married to rich guy named tareq. major chaffe.  hugs too much.  throws charity events and is kinda stoopid.

 

mary.

married to some douche dude. descendant of DC radio royalty.

has 129 kids. or 5, maybe? 

has finger print security device on her closet.

looks like eddie vedder.

 

cat.

married to fancy photographer who takes pictures of presidents.

man voice in a british accent.

weirdest and snobbiest.

has kelly bensimon crazy deep inside her (ok not so deep).

 

lynda.

owns a modelling agency.

looks slightly like danielle staub.

younger, dark chocolate boyfriend.

 

there are the usual suspects:

forced relationships and awkward get togethers...

 

unassuming husbands...

and

salon visits:

consider your summer complete.