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Sorry, but this is REALLY ugly. Like Vin Diesel's twin brother ugly

Ever hear Siouxsie and the Banshees first album back when they were buds with Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten in London's punk ghettos?

Suburban Relapse.

I'm sorry that I hit you
but my string snapped
I sorry I disturbed your cat-nap
but whilst finishing a chore
I asked myself "what for"
then something snapped,
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse
I was washing up the dishes
minding my own business
when my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse

Should I
Throw things at the neighbours
expose myself to strangers?
kill myself or...you?
now memory gets hazy...
I think I must be crazy
but my string snapped
I had a relapse...A Suburban relapse

Please... No more!

It's hard to see, but the table by iteself might be okay. But those chairs, yuck!

kudos Paul for tying the seemingly unrelated strands of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Vin Diesel & his twin and these so-gawd-awful- my-feelings-are-hurt chairs. Ha ha. You get a gold star.

Now I'm dying to see a pic of Vin Diesel's twin just so I can compare.

I had to vote NOT, but there is one element I do like, which is the height of the chair backs. Pulled into the table, they create a room within a room. But Charles Rennie MacIntosh did it MUCH better. That fabric would keep me up at night...

Excuse me, Mackintosh!

I like the idea of mixing modern and classic (the tabbe seems modern). but the chairs are UGLY the proportions shot by the outrageous chairbacks and the lousy upholstery.
try again

I'd buy these chairs just so I could burn them and scatter the ashes.

martha

and that goes for everything else in the photo too.
martha

I only get half a gold star... But thanks!

I'm paul. He's Paul. We're alike, but different.

Wow someone's mom or pop won on "the price is right."

So his P is bigger? ;)
And now I just want to see a picture of Vin Diesel.

If you look at it on a purely design standpoint the room is well put together and thought out. Because it doesn't reflect the sensibilities of this audience doesn't make it ugly. However, "hot" isn't the word I would choose. "Hot" implies to me that it is trendy and "downtown". This room isn't. But it is lovely nonetheless.

But seriously, I think the "everything came out of the same box" problem here really seals the deal on these chairs not working. But two, in a breezy Provencal-inspired sun room, with a mix of other fabrics, and lots of worn painted furniture and some European wicker, just might work.

okay, okay, in an alternate universe the chairs might work. But Brooke, I don't think this room is well designed or lovely at all--it has an awful symmetry; it's simultaneously busy and rigid. I look at it and feel sure all the flowers are fake and the room smells like some kind of "home fragrance". stepford all the way. Sorry for going off, but this is apartment *therapy*, isn't it?

martha

Sorry Brooke but which ever way you look at this room it's U G L Y. Looks like ajoke to me. No way someone can waste time thinking about this as a really nice room.

Sorry Brooke but whichever way you look at this room it's U G L Y. Looks like a joke to me. No way someone can waste time thinking about this as a really nice room. This is so UGLY it hurts.

very Branson, Missouri...

Martha--
How can you tell whether a room's symmetry works from one 3/4 view pic?
Yikes, people, RELAX. Leave this poor room (and the people who own/owned it) alone. THEY did not put this ROOM up for critique. They're trying to sell the furniture. Jeez.

They're selling these suburban-Provençal chairs with a modern-bad glass-topped dining room table that has brass and chrome legs? I wish godawful were a category... And what is that toile-sur-toile horror happening on the back wall of the dining room? Even my relatives in Branson and Nash-vegas have taste, hank, and I've seen beautiful houses and cosy homes in the South... Geography doesn't limit your decorating style to bad and "omigod! what is that?"...

Other Patrick,
umm, cuz it's my grandma's dining room?
Martha

Martha--
You're publicly slamming your Grandma? Cold.

Yeah, I'm like that.
martha

omigod, and i posted my last name. If grandma does a search i'm dead! granny, granny, it wasn't me, it was..the cat!
martha

Now I just feel sorry for your Grandma. AND your cat.

Why the cat? I'm saying exactly the sort of thing she'd say, if she could talk. In fact, I think I've been channeling her. She and grandma hate each other already--grandma's a dog person. And a tough cookie too, so not to worry.
martha

"Tough cookie" must run in the family.

the family reunions are frightful. as for you, other patrick, keep it up and I won't tell you about my birch chair from wisteria.
martha

Ha! Whoops, sorry! Didn't cross-reference the name!
Did you get the chair?!

Hot!!
My boyfriend came home with almost EXACTLY the same set last week, with an oak tabletop, and the chairs had wood frame-backs without the bizarre upholstery. Some kind of French Provincial/Spanish Mexican mix. He says had been thinking of Jacquelyn Suzanne and Valley of the Dolls all day, and he saw this set at a thrift store for $200.
I swear it's the same set!! Except the seat cushions are striped gold and avocado green velour.

So I am sending away my 60's modernist dinette set, in favor of this. Because you have to look around at what everyone else (at least here in Silverlake) is craving, and you have to have
the courage to go in the OTHER DIRECTION.

At least he does.. I wouldn't have bought it.

Anyway, your original person way overpaid for theirs. I think it's worth about $200.
(with a bowl of fake fruit of course)

steve
watching from L.A.

I did get the chair, and it's really cute! but I'm afraid it's a temporary pleasure as it's not so well made,. Although the uprights that form the sides and back are whittled down and (loosely) fitted into holes at the bottom, each is attached to the branch that curves around the top with a flat phlips head screw! I guess you can't get more rustic than that. But I don't care, I still love it. and zizi the cat totally loves it. she won't sleep anywhere else. Also if anything breaks it will be easy to get replacement parts.
martha

Oooo, Steve, I think I've seen that fabric at my local Salvation Army. Tell your boyfriend that it's so kitsch that it's hot. I've seen many a thing on the street, just delivered, and tried to do my own "hot or not" in my head. Sometimes, they're real stumpers.

Can I give a little shout out to my local Salvation Army? It's way out in Brooklyn, no one who knows anything goes there and I've seen some stuff there the hipsterati would go nuts about. I haven't been in a while, I think I'm going to take a digital camera with me and share its wonders with the AT community. Or not.

Ruth, that's a great idea! please do.
martha

Is it the Salvation Army in Park Slope? I used to go there to buy suits for job interviews, when I landed in New York back in 1983!

Salvation Army in Los Angeles sucks. They think they are the Antiques Roadhouse.

We go to the main St Vincent de Paul warehouse near downtown L.A. Last fall we brought home a huge Sub-Zero refrigerator, black lucite, about seven (?) years old, for $500. Spotless. Looks like that big black thing from "2001-A Space Odyssey." Not exactly a giveaway, but there's nothing like lording over your friends with your Sub-Zero! (of course we can't afford to put any food in it, and it is actually the size of the kitchen, but what the heck.
So American! Such conspicuous consumption.

I had found an old Wolf range on the street, and re-furbished it, but my evil landlady evicted me
when she sold the property, and claimed that it went with the house. I lit seven voodoo candles for her, and an earthquake damaged her new house.
I swear!
It's Dodge City out here, for sure!


sr

This is what happens when computer scientists and engineers get married and decide they want to go modern but stay in touch with their traditional decoration upbringing. I'm trying to hold back here... but when I first saw that picture I actually gagged. At what point do we go "this is not a reflection of ones taste"?

i want to see vin diesel twin plz!!!!!!!

hey i can't seem to find a damn pic of paul anywhere that i look. everyone says that he's ugly but i don't know if he looks anything like vin or "mark" (very hot) than yall are tripping but maybe yall can post a pic of him on the web pretty please!!!!!!! love ,xoxoxo Candy