It looked great for the holidays but we are at a loss for what to put in it now. Do any of our readers have any fun suggestions?
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Suggestions needed
For Christmas Susan's Aunt Sue gave us this awesome Satellite Bowl sold by MoMA. We immediately placed it on our dinning table and stuck some leftover Christmas ornaments in it.
It looked great for the holidays but we are at a loss for what to put in it now. Do any of our readers have any fun suggestions?
It looked great for the holidays but we are at a loss for what to put in it now. Do any of our readers have any fun suggestions?
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pinecones? :P
ReplyDeletei think the design is more powerful when it is empty. Leave it empty most times, until you find that something special once in a while to place in it and enjoy.
ReplyDeletea yellow lemon would look good sometimes.
Lemons or limes?
ReplyDeleteI'd suggest lemons or pomegranates. If you don't want the recurring expense of replacing fresh ones, there are some incredibly realistic artificial ones for sale now that look so real you can't tell the difference unless you pick them up. And nothing says "mid-century" like artificial fruit. Everyone had a bowl of fake apples and bananas and a ceramic lavabo on the wall full of fake grapes.
ReplyDeleteglass fishing balls.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Laura, Glass Fishing Globes would be a neat look! Or maybe just one big round globe?
ReplyDeleteI think the obvious move would be to use Star Wars action figures to reenact the scene at the Great Pit of Carkoon. (I have a spare Boba Fett if you need one!)
ReplyDeleteI like the glass fishing globe idea, too, or the fake lemons. We always had fake grapes around the house....I thought they were rubber. Glad you like your present and I made the blog!!!
ReplyDeleteAunt Sue
The glass fishing balls sounds like a neat idea. We will have to look for some. Thanks for all the suggestions especially the Star Wars one.
ReplyDeleteI remember those grapes!
ReplyDeleteI just discovered your blog and I have to say I love it! We just bought a mid-century home and the outside looks quite similar to yours. Can't wait to see what you guys do.
ReplyDeleteMaria - Thanks for the kind words. I would love to see a pic of your house one day. I know our style is popular here in Atlanta, mainly due to the same people building all of them, but I haven't come across one somewhere else. Good luck with the new home.
ReplyDeleteCould you fit a clear glass bowl (or even clear plastic tub) into your Satellite, and float some blooms on water? The idea is for the clear bowl to be practically invisible.
ReplyDeleteI would find some of those old glass grape bunches.
ReplyDeletebtw, this is my old house! I lived there from 2001-2003. Second owner. The only renovation I started was to pull up the carpet in the two guest rooms and to add more gravel to the roof. If I had stayed I wanted to open the guest bedroom windows into glass doors, put a nice railing on the carport roof and have a front patio out there.
Love what you did with the front doors. I remember looking at the house when it was last on the market and hated that they had taken down the fretwork screen that originally lived just inside the front door entrance. I think it was being stored in the basement. With the double door, I'm not sure you can reinstall it but it was cool.
wonderdallas - That's exciting to hear from a former owner. The previous owner didn't do much with the house before he sold it to us so it was in crappy shape. Do you have any pics of the divider by the front door? Was it original to the house? We still have it and trying to figure what to do with it. I want to make sure it gets used somewhere in the house at some point.
DeleteI'll look around for pics. It was before having a digital camera! lol
ReplyDeleteOriginally it was a divider between the front door and the living room. It was attached to the floor and first ceiling beam (thus the uneven length of the upper posts). It was just aft of the faux double door section. I guess he took it down when the bamboo floors were installed and now that you have an actual double door, that first beam now hovers above the new door section.
I guess you could reinstall it on any beam.....but because of the new height of the floors, it would have to slide a bit further into the room. The problem, if I remember the beam pattern correctly, is that all the other beams intersect with windows.....so that wouldn't work. If it were me, I'd either have a welder extend the upper poles a bit and reinstall inside next to the new door (what, a foot to the left from it's original postion?) and have it connect to the tongue and groove ceiling OR cut the top poles even and have it flanking the right side of the downstairs sliding glass doors. So, if you are standing at the bottom of the stairs, the wet bar is to your left, glass doors directly ahead and the fretwork screen just to the right of the door. That would give the seating area a little separation and with a cool lamp (and end table) to it's right, the screen would look so cool as people walked up to the front door (looking down at the backlit pattern).
-Dallas
I found a pic....what email address can I send it to?
ReplyDeleteExciting! Email me at fugitoid at gmail dot com.
DeleteJust out of curiosity, what color was the house when you lived in it? When we were replacing the front doors you could tell the house was a dark brown at one point. The doors themselves were once black and then there was a salmon color underneath that. It also looked like there was some sort of diamond pattern on them too.
It's so much fun to find out about the history of our house. Thanks!