Home Deco. Style Poll

Mine is 'early stoop sale' and 'pre-trash pick-up curb side style'. Park Slope/Prospect Heights stoop sales and throw aways ain't what they used to be!

Here's my place. It's still kind of bare:
http://tinyurl.com/qm6za

While I'm mostly unpacked, I'm just now getting around to thinking about the walls of my new pad, and I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm going to build some shelves in the kitchen, paint some (not everything because I'm not THAT ambitious, just some accent walls to combat all the off-white in the place) and then I want to find some artwork. This is the most grownup place I've ever had and as much as I love my old Prince poster from the "Purple Rain" album I don't really want to be tacking stuff onto the walls with pushpins, so I'm still trying to figure out how to proceed. Any suggestions on where I can find some cool, inexpensive, maybe somewhat modern paintings? Any Brooklynians who are artists that might have artwork to sell on the cheap?

stacey wrote: I have to say I have more of an eclectic style myself. As many of you know, we have been renovating our house for the past year and a half. Its been my obsession/money pit/anxiety attack and we are finally about 95% done. This was all done by us and some friends who helped us out. Even in configuring the floorplan we knew that we wanted lots of room to hang out and entertain so we took out as many walls and tried to get as much light in as possible. Unfortunately this house didn't have much in the way of "original details" so we tried to add something fun with an archway. The fun part comes this weekend when I actually get to decorate!!!! Can you say SHOPPING - whoo whoo.

Here are some photos of our work in progress when we were about 75% done http://www.flickr.com/photos/39465010@N00/

daaamn. you got some bob vila kinda skillz

muteflute wrote: I'm envious of those funky shelves. how'd you make 'em?

You mean the white ones with the colored shapes on them? They were unpainted wood; I then painted them white (I used Kilz primer but I think any white paint would work) and the colored shapes are just pieces of tissue paper that I put on with Mod Podge. I'm the queen of Mod Podge -- I have a mirror-topped coffee table and matching end table I found on the street that I put a ring of little squares of colored paper to make them look like mosaic, and a video cabinet I covered with Chinese Hell money.

my apartment looks like a bomb went off in it and that it is currently being maintained by a very lazy bachelor (while I am female, I do not maintain the standards of cleanliness most associated with women) and two cats, one of whom is a frisky kitten. must remedy situation. if I ever dig out of this mess, and rearrange the furniture as planned several months ago, my apartment will retain a mix of ikea, target, abc-dumbo and virgen de guadalupe sensibility. with some of sine's paintings for good measure. and lots of absurd cat art.
it's probably better if I leave it in it's current gaza-esque state.

apollonia666 wrote: Here's my place. It's still kind of bare:
http://tinyurl.com/qm6za

OK, that box with "valium, handguns, dildos" is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while...

apollonia666 wrote: I'm the queen of Mod Podge -- I have a mirror-topped coffee table and matching end table I found on the street that I put a ring of little squares of colored paper to make them look like mosaic, and a video cabinet I covered with Chinese Hell money.

oh Mod Podge... this sounds right up my alley. I've spent the last four months going decorating/craft crazy in my apartment. I was stamping away like a mad woman last night -- seriously my arm hurt by the end of it. At one point in my life I would have thought that entering a store called "The Ink Pad" was beneath me -- but yesterday I discovered that pouring over ink colors is fun.

mod podge now added the list...

[quote=escap]Here's mine. It's a bit of a fixer-upper, but it's holding me over during my student years.


That looks like Frasier Crane's place.

Hmmm, thanks. Who would have thought you could get such great views from Fort Greene, huh? Thanks, Sallie Mae.

apollonia666 wrote: Any Brooklynians who are artists that might have artwork to sell on the cheap?

I got two little original arts from Matter on Fifth Ave at President - uber designy housewares front room, gallery in the back. The pictures were $70 each. I was glad I asked . . . the artist was the woman working in the store...
http://www.portiawells.com/index.php?p=portraits

There's also occasional group things in Williamsburg (BUST benefits, artist craft shows, like that) and the Outsider Art Fair at Puck (where I always want things that cost $1000, or $40,000, but there's arts much less than that too)

Will you please tell me what Chinese Hell money is?

apollonia666 wrote:

I had this video/DVD cabinet a prior tenant had left behind at my old place; it was a good storage option but was covered in tacky fake wood paneling and was really ugly. So I picked up a big package of Hell money for less than a dollar at the Hong Kong Supermarket in Sunset Park, got new knobs at Tarjay, and fixed it up:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/83741526@N00/136036205/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/46/136036205_cb5fb57298.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Video cabinet, gone to Hell" /></a>

Mod Podge rules, yo.

I must get me some of this stuff!

stacey wrote: Your cabinet reminds me of a story my husband told me. One time my mother in law tried to update a side table he had in his room. He came home from school one day to find his mother had glued his baseball cards to the top of the table. She said well they were in a shoebox under your bed I figured you dont use them anymore. Of course that was the box that had his Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Ricky Henderson rookie cards as well as some other famous players. His eyes still well up with tears when he thinks about it.

Oh NO.

Not nearly as valuable, but my mother once gave my first grade lunchbox -- which is now a collectible -- to my niece, without asking me. I made her get it back, because I'm a heartless, greedy aunt.

I'm so stylish, I'll just follow my own dreams and it will rock!

I voted for that.

but my style is what ever i can afford and what ever i could steal from my parents house .

stacey wrote: Your cabinet reminds me of a story my husband told me. One time my mother in law tried to update a side table he had in his room. He came home from school one day to find his mother had glued his baseball cards to the top of the table. She said well they were in a shoebox under your bed I figured you dont use them anymore. Of course that was the box that had his Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Ricky Henderson rookie cards as well as some other famous players. His eyes still well up with tears when he thinks about it.

wow he got owned!!! my mom threw out my comic and basebase ball card collection worth tons of money. she was like it was siting in the basement and you havent touch for years and years. I used to spend my 100 bucks a week on those things blah for like a decade or two.