Look! Inspiration from Anchorman

"I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany" - Ron Burgundy.

If we had our beer goggles on, that pick-up line might just work for us decor-conscious folks. With having that said, we decided to take a retrospective (it came out three years ago, so maybe not that retrospective...) look in this cult-hit's set decor. After all, it's got two of our favorite elements: 60's style and San Diego.

So here's our assessment...we are gonna put this out there, if you like it, you can take it; if you dont, send it right back: We are loving the white brick work in the back walls, the floor-to-ceiling glass panels (so very Eichler!), and the ginormous mid-century lamp perched on the end table. The arc lamp and the velvet chair could do with some updating, and definitely more color (brown on brown on more brown? Meh).

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Everything you said, but the hanging spider plant way back there doesn't send me, they never did. This was pre-macrame by a couple years, yes? I also like the glass door at the far back. As far as Mister Man, the turtlenack and the moustache make me glad I'm here and now.

posted by btoddster on September 13th 2007 at 11:40am
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OH...everything you said EXCEPT.... That ginormous lamp on the end table. YIKES!

posted by btoddster on September 13th 2007 at 11:42am
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San Diego represent.

As Randy Jackson would say, "this is just ok for me." It succeeds the most for what it is - a movie set and as a backdrop for the actor, not an actual home.

If the brown velvet chair was a mustard tweed instead, I would like that better. Agreed there's way too much brown, though the layering of all the brown tones is sort of nice - and again, a fantastic backdrop for Ron Burgundy.

posted by mmadden on September 13th 2007 at 11:45am
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Baxter is the best accessory in this swingin' bachelor pad.

Ah, San Deeahgo, which means, a whale's vagina.

posted by becky on September 13th 2007 at 12:14pm
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Are spider plants terribly passe? I love them :(

Sans macrame, of course.

posted by mmadden on September 13th 2007 at 1:19pm
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How can you not like spider plants? Not too many frumpy details...cool white hi-lites... little baby ones growing out of the mothership.

I probably wouldn't hang it but I'd take it over any lucky bamboo(wanna-be) any day.

posted by meltendo on September 13th 2007 at 1:44pm
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San Deeahgo.....mmm

posted by mmmmJ on September 13th 2007 at 3:53pm
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I'm all spider planted out from the seventies, thank you. It's just a personal thing. That, and pothos and several other various houseplants, all tropical in nature, as much as I love the tropics...and seeing some of those plants grow wild and HUGE.

As far as lucky bamboo.....none of that twirly or braided baloney, or gold foofy things hanging off of them. And yes, I know it's actually Dracaenea (sp?)......

posted by btoddster on September 13th 2007 at 9:36pm
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I fully blame my mom for my love for spider plants. She's always had a few cascading off of our built-in bookshelves.

And I wasn't alive in the 70s, so I didn't witness any of the decade's plant-related atrocities firsthand.

posted by mmadden on September 14th 2007 at 7:36am
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