{proposed future} birthday gift to myself?

I am quite desperate to own an Eames Rocker. Matt Blatt have replicas for $125 but (let's face it) you get what you pay for and I can be kind of a snob about these things.

gimme

Rococo Stool from La Maison. It would look very pretty sitting at the end of my bed. More than slightly out of my price range at a $1185 but they are opening an outlet store on October 9. One day...

rockstar

Rahul just finished painting the woodwork in the upstairs green bedroom. So happy.

Also pictured are our new Lovesacs. Seriously alarming name I know. Mum almost had a heart attack when I told her that Rahul's Lovesac was enormous. The green bedroom is about to become our main living space because the existing kitchen is moving into our current living room, becoming our second temporary kitchen. I know, it's confusing. The current temporary kitchen will become a plumbing paradise because it will ultimately house the pipes that will go upstairs to the new bathroom, as well as it's own pipes for it's eventual use as a second bathroom and laundry.

Our couch is being orphaned to a new home and we will be enjoying the comfort of Lovesacs for the forseeable future, which I have absolutely no complaints about because they are the most comfortable seating in the world. They are made of some kind of super duper foam so they are nothing like the traditional beanbags which I have always been less than keen on.

victory

Teak Parker coffee table with teak veneer table top and solid teak undercarriage and slats. Originally listed on ebay for $175. My patience* paid off and I just picked it up for $145.

My mum thinks my obsessive coveting of Parker items is hilarious. Apparently my Grandmother also thought Parker furniture was all the rage.

*A better description would be luck. The winning bidder pulled out and I got a special offer.

more mid century beauties

If only we had a finished house to put them in... sigh...

addendum

Not all of the credenzas I like are in America after all. I have now found Vampt Vintage Design. And they have many many lovely Danish mid century pieces.

(An addendum to my original addendum. I emailed Vampt for a price on a particularly lovely credenza. $12,800. Cripes. Having said that I saw some lovely looking hall tables and credenzas in Regent Street, Redfern today, for a snip of that price so the dream lives on.)

oh credenza....

I think somebody needs to stage an intervention because this week I have been daydreaming about credenzas. After years of share housing and cramming all of my possessions into small spaces it's exciting to have a whole house to play dress up with. The landing at the top of the stairs is big, really big. Big enough to be home to a credenza, a vase of flowers and a big picture or mirror on the wall.

Typically I love credenzas that (a) live in America (b) are Danish style and (c) are pricey*. Like these.

However if I lived in a red bricker that I could paint white, plant palm trees in the yard and could retro-ify I would be buying this little number. It has BUILT IN SPEAKERS AND SPACE FOR A RECORD PLAYER. Betty Draper would love it.

In more important news our Development Application was approved on Tuesday night. Sadly we missed hearing it be approved by a few minutes because we were late for the meeting. I was trying to choose an appropriate young-newlywed-renovator-in-the-inner-west outfit and Rahul just wanted to have a second bowl of lamb vindaloo and rice. Whoops. After ascertaining from a more timely applicant that our DA had been approved we had a gelato to celebrate.

Now the chaos will begin.

Thankfully we're almost ready to move upstairs. This weekend will involve a lot of painting.

Updated Bedroom 'To Do' List

Have doors installed
Electrician to finish wiring
Gyprocker to do put up walls, cornices and ceiling
Choose wooden floorboards
Have existing floors removed
Have new floorboards layed and polished
Choose lights
Have lights attached to wires
Design wardrobe
Order wardrobe
Install wardrobe
Choose skirting boards and architraves
Attach skirting boards and architraves
Paint walls, ceilings, skirting boards, architraves and windows

*Pricey in the context of ebay, not in the context of life generally.