design ideas - rustic chic

This popped up on ApartmentTherapy this morning and I like it. (Link to the article is below).  I then went and searched for more pics of these guys' work and studio and I added those below as well.

It is sad that the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post was to kick myself for not buying a set of heavy iron table legs like the ones in the first pic (though not as ornate) when I saw them at the flea market two years ago.  It was the end of the day and the guy didn't want to pack them up and take them home because they weighed a ton and he offered them to me cheap - but I was on my bike and didn't want to deal with it.  I've been kicking myself ever since -- thinking that they would have been great for a big slab wood table, and here they are and so they are!!  Well fuck me. 

Oh, and how about the big, boxy, white-washed light-fixture over the table? we're going to need something big over the dining table - it's dark on that side of the room.

In the below picture I really like the vertical paneling on the sides of the bar - like what we talked about except they use white-washed and natural wood slats.  I also particularly like the use of old multi-pane windows as a space divider.  We might consider this on the bedroom walls around the staircase so that we can close off the bedroom but still get light from the big picture window off the staircase.  What do you think?

These rough-hewn boards flanking the corridor are cool and I like the use of the hinges, but it feels a little design-ey since they are purely decorative.  If they actually swung closed to shut the corridor, that would be cool, but clearly they don't since the hinges are in the wrong place.

LINK: hOmE Studio of Oliver & Evan Haslegrave

And here are some more pics of their place from other sources:'

OH SHIT!!! They do open!!! Amazing!!! (following pix from an article in TheScoutMag.com) - and apparently all the pix from Apt. Therapy also originated with the piece in The Scout.

Please spare me comment on how handsome he looks with his fancy hair and beard.

Following pix are from NY Magazine - I think, unless they took them from The Scout as well. 

 

 

 

Let me be clear right now - I HATE how blogger.com's formatting tools jump around and screw everything up. This interface SUCKS!!!

design ideas - industrial chandelier

Okay, so I'm not the best photoshopper, but here's what I have in mind at the moment.

design idea - industrial chandelier

A few years ago I had to hire some guys to clean out a dumbwaiter shaft that was totally packed from the basement up to the third floor with construction debris that some idiot had thrown down it rather than getting a dumpster.  Anyway, at some point, while trying to free the tangled piles of stuff in the shaft the guys doing the work all of a sudden yelled and jumped back and there was a loud crash as something very heavy came dislodged and fell out of the shaft.  It was the old top pulley from the dumbwater.  It is big and iron and it weighs a lot.
So, my plan now is to make a chandelier out of it if I can.

V suggests something with Mason jars rather than crystals.  I'm okay with that plan.  The wiring will have to be exposed so I think some sort of old-style cotton covered lamp wire.  

Here are some pix found of what others have done:

The above pix (most of them at least) are from these sites:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/diy-mason-jar-chandelier-kara-pasley-designs-123835

http://www.vintage-chandeliers.org/

http://allyouneedisloveevents.com/blog/2011/03/mason-jar-chandelier/

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/02/southern-charm-mason-jar-chandelier.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/68744078@N00/4946053464/in/photostream/

http://www.makeclub.org/ideas/items/view/7860

And here are some without jars - but industrial nevertheless:

Even though it's from Pottery Barn, I like this one - the Edison Chandelier.  Maybe I start with this type of configuration and then just dangle and wrap the cords through the spokes and around the wheel.  That would work probably.

 

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/edison-chandelier/?cm_src=OLDLINK&pkey=xsrd0m1|20|||0|||||||edison

This is going the right direction:

http://www.formplusfunction.com/blog/2010/chandelier-with-glam-and-an-industrial-flair/

But this is the one!!!  - Next post is all about the pulleys I'm going to need to suspend the chandelier from. (okay, maybe not the very next post, but someday soon)

http://designerjunkfinder.blogspot.com/2010/03/custom-industrial-chandelier.html

design ideas - barn door rollers

So, for the door between the box and the tube we have agreed that we want to go with a sliding door mounted on top with barn door rollers hanging from a steel track.

Although the door opening itself is cut into the tube and is therefore curved, there is a beam right outside the door that will be perfect for hanging the track.

Here's a bad picture (note that the little sliver in the lower left is the top of the open door frame that this door will be covering):

And what we have in mind is basically to have the door slide right to open - the thing is that by sliding it right it will slide right off the landing and out into this atrium space over the down staircase (see how the beam cuts straight out while the curve of the tube rolls away):

So, obviously, this thing has to hold a lot of weight.

Anyway, I think these roller things and the track for them are still made, but the new ones are pretty un-decorative (Stanley makes them I think). I figured there would be a few standard models to look at on ebay. A few. So, here's the choices from ebay (including both current auctions and ended auctions):

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NOTE: Wherever these things look like they are brand new or fresh painted, they were re-painted or primed by the seller. Odds are they're covering up a heap of rust.
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AND THE WINNER IS...

Typical of me, I am totally wooed by the one with the most industrial looking hunk of cast iron. Also, I find the range of adjustments on these ones pretty appealing. And they come with 8 feet of track. Hopefully this plan will work - I'm pretty excited about it.

design idea

How about this over the door to the utilities room in the basement?

I've been looking for a use for this thing ever since I "found" it in Italy in 1988.

design idea - Preway Fireplace

This old Preway (I assume it's Preway) free-standing fireplace is up on Craigslist right now right near the house and I'm interested. I'm not sure where we'd put it though. In theory, this could be the bedroom heat source, but it isn't iron, it's sheetmetal, so it isn't likely to convect as much heat - I think? I know nothing though.

Anyway, the color is pretty.

I called and the lady is asking $350 for it but it comes with about 25ft of original stovepipe in the same color.

Tempting, but probably not something we need.