One of my main requirements with furniture now-a-days is that - if I can't move it around by myself, it's not coming into my house.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
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One of my main requirements with furniture now-a-days is that - if I can't move it around by myself, it's not coming into my house.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My freshman year in college I dated a guy who lived in a dorm designed by I.M. Pei. The furniture was all built in, even in the tv room, which had these wide benches, that laddered up to the ceiling.
I love built-ins. My uncle was a builder/contractor and had built his family house in the 50s. It was definitely a great example of mid-century modern. I remember it so clearly..definitely had a Frank Lloyd Wright vibe. All the dressers in all the bedrooms were built-ins. The twin platform beds for my two girl cousins were permanently attached to the floor. When I came to visit, he simply set a thick piece of plywood between the beds on the sides of the platform and with a thin mattress on top, and voila! A bed perfect for cousins talking and giggling late into the night.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tybee
He had a lot of built-in bookcases, too. It was a really sleek house. Interestingly, when my aunt divorced him, she moved into a house that was the complete opposite--a big farmhouse with all kinds of hutches filled with china, pewter, silver, you name it. I often thought that she probably left him in order to live her own life. He was pretty controlling. She probably had little to say about what their house looked like.