If you only have 5 minutes per phone call…

May 15th, 2013

A pic of a sign inside vintage phone booth, 'Limit Calls to 5 Minutes'

Then biotch, better make it count by taking your call in one of these babies:

An AFTER shot of two vintage phone booths painted out in red and blue

These booths are just begging to be occupied!

YES! Gorg, right? These booths are just BEYOND sassy, with their new paint jobs…and look at the floors too:

A close up of linoleum floor of phone booth

Go ahead...

Another detail shot of interior phone booth linoleum floor

EAT OFF ME!

These are painted in the company’s logo colors using Benjamin Moore’s Impervex latex enamel paint. It’s water based, so the dry time is substantially less than oil based enamels, but it still took me about 4 days to WERK these two ladies out! Red being the absolute biotch of a color that she is to paint with, and b/c every surface in both of these booths was some kind of weird laminate-y horrid glossy surface, I had to use a primer. I used Benjamin Moore’s Stix Waterborne Bonding Primer, which sounds like some sort of torture method. It too is water-based, so it was really easy to use and dried really quickly. Here’s what that step looked like:

A pic of the primed interior of one of the phone booths

Primed...

A close up of the primed interior of phone booth

...more primed...

A ceiling shot of the interior of primed phone booth

...more more primed...on the ceiling too!

I hit both booths with two coats of primer. Then painted both out with at least two coats of paint each. The red lady was all kinds of finicky, as pointed out earlier, so of course she ended up getting like 4 coats. Honestly, I could of done even more, but she wasn’t the only thing on the agenda for this office makeover, the selfish skank! The linoleum floors got some love by being scrubbed and then reconditioned with a generous coating of boiled linseed oil, which is just God’s gift…that stuff works on ALL KINDS OF SURFACES…AMAZE!

A pic of the red paint job for the phone booth

I know I look good but keep painting...I'll look better!

A pic of the painted phone booths with doors closed

Ready and at your service!

Ring Ring!

May 10th, 2013

This is happening:

Pic of vintage phone booth

PJ calling!

This baby was scored off Craigslist! She’s one of two vintage phone booths– thanks New Jersey!!!– that are being primarily repurposed as privacy booths in a new open loft office design project i’m doing! I mean, it’s like CAKE, right?

A pic of vintage phone booth with door open

You should be boothin'!

I’m painting the interiors, gasp phone-booth-o-philes and eventually we’re going to retrofit the light and even wire them with the company’s phones! For now, employee peeps will just use their cellphones to make those delicate calls…like, to their drug dealers! AMAZE! Stay tuned for more process shots of wonder! And happy FRIDAY!!!

Um…

May 8th, 2013

A shot of a floral bow tie by J.Crew

LIVING!!!

Buy this here, right now. Happy Spring!

Free, Fabulous & Friday!

May 3rd, 2013

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Y’all do see the glory that is leaning up against this building, beckoning you to snatch her up and hang her on your wall? Damn– now that’s some fabulous free glamour right there, y’all! In case you can’t tell what you’re looking at– no it’s not a mirage– that’s a sputnik, mirrored wall unit/curio shelf, on its’ side…YES– the things I could display in THAT!!!

Here’s another shot with flash:

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Somebody better scoop that HAWT mama up!!! Happy Friday!

Do y’all like to sit BEFORE you spin?

May 2nd, 2013

Click and I'm yours...you just can't try me out first!

We’re well into the day and age where everything you could ever want is available for purchase online…it’s mad convenient, but with regards to buying new furniture, esp. larger, more pricey pieces, like sofas…are y’all as eager to shell out before you test out? Do y’all just take the plunge, open the purse and then pray it shows up looking and feeling as amazing as it does online, knowing you can just return it, if not? Hmmmm, send me wise words…I’m struggling with this!!!

I could be uncomfortably gorgeous!!!

Today’s Design*Sponge Sneak Peek? Our Apartment!!!

April 29th, 2013
A screen grab of our sneak peek from DesignSponge

Ok, y’all, I’ve had a serious case of blog-haustion the past couple months, but I’m delighted to share that our apartment is being featured today as part of DesignSponge’s Sneak Peek!!!! Holla! Check out the full story here, shot by the uber-talented, Bob Martus! Thanks also to Grace and Amy (and ALL) at Design*Sponge for the continued support and constant gorgeousness that they put out into the world!!!

Thrift Whore Thursday

February 28th, 2013

Y’all, the Brooklyn Heights Housing Works WERKED me over recently when I stopped in for a Thrift Whore session. Look at all this sensual candy:

A pic of an ornate, Rococo style sofa at Housing Works

Sweet and Sassy!

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Thrift Whore Thursday: FOOD Edition

February 21st, 2013

Y’all know how much a I just j’adore Thrift Whore Thursdays…and as much whoring as I do, I’ve seen A LOT of cra cra in these thrift stores, but I still get backslapped when I come across food! Damn!

A pic of boxed food at thrift store

Betty might be bothered by this, y'all!

A pic of pumpkin bread mix in a thrift store bin

Sugar and spice this bread mix ain't nice!

And lest y’all forget, may I present:

A pic of a thrift store shelf with copious amounts of Fluff on shelf

Well, shut the...FLUFF you!

But WAIT, there’s more y’all:

A pic of a box of mixed grain baby food at the thrift store

REALLY?!

I’m pretty sure mixed grains would be the last thing your baby would be getting from this box…happy whoring folks!

Y’all need some buffalo plaid all up in yer life!!!

February 19th, 2013

Like this:

A pic of an armchair upholstered in red buffalo plaid at Lambert & Co

Mad for this plaid chair!

And I know just the place to snatch it up: Lambert & Co at the Chateau Frontenac in Canada! YES! (Y’all, L&Co is inside the hotel lobby, which hotel is linked to above, but — gasp– store seems to have no online presence! WTF, Lambert? Well, fret not friends, just do like we used to do back in the day– call or email them to buy yo-selves some plaid-ness: (418) 694-2151 and lambertco@qc.aira.com)

Like these lovelies:

A red buffalo plaid throw pillow at Lambert & Co

Put this shiot on your sofa and SNUGGLE IT!

Red plaid lampshade at Lambert & Co

Put a plaid lampshade on it!

A rectangular red plaid lampshade at Lambert & Co

Slain by another lampshade!

Speaking of lampshades, these biotches at Lambert & Co are werking all kinds of lampshade divinity…

Close up of a yarn lampshade at Lambert & Co

Oh she done knitted herself a lampshade, y'all!

And never one to be distracted by a lampshade, this one nabbed a fur head-dress:

A pic of Christopher Michael White in new fur hat

Fur fantasia!

There was also some sort of sheep theme running rampant throughout Lambert & Co., b/c I think I remember the shop owner telling me something about their history involving Shetland Wool and sheep, fur, lampshades, plaid?

Red plaid pillow with two lambs embroidered on it

Baaaaahhhh brilliant!

Go on y’all and give ‘em a shout to get your hands on some of this chic!!!

It’s Friday and y’all need some FREE SHIOT!

February 15th, 2013

And look what the streets of NYC has served us today:

A pic of a white Kartell side table in a NYC trash can

This is a Kartell, biotch!!!

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