Campaign Furniture: Tired or Terrific?

Happy Friday (even though it's a 13th)!

For some reason I find TV consoles to be the hardest thing to choose. I just don't love the look of "entertainment centers" so I always prefer to find something vintage or something built-in, which we were lucky enough to have in our old house. When we moved into the new place, we ended up using a 10 year old Ikea TV stand from our first LA apartment while I searched for the perfect piece. Needless to say, it's seen better days. And as usual,  I was fixated on a vintage 1940's French Deco buffet that I saw in Lauren Gold's Chicago apartment in Lonny last year. This was a problem, obviously. I was about ready to refinish our old Ikea stand when I came across this Campaigner dresser by Dixie on Craigslist:

Sorry for the terrible cell pic.

Looks a little bright, right? The plan is to refinish it in a glossy black, so that it looks more like this:

Jordan Ferney's apartment via Oh, Happy Day!

I ADORE this gray version, but it's too similar to what I did in my entryway:

 From Rashon Carraway's blog, Mr. Goodwill Hunting

There seems to be a bit of campaign fatigue out there in the blogosphere, but I try to ignore trends on the whole, anyway: if I like it, I like it. What do you think? Are there certain design trends you avoid because it's "been done"?


Have a great weekend, friends!!!


xoxo

DIY: Upholstered Lucite Vanity Stool

 I had been looking for a comfortable stool to use when giving P a bath. I had a picture of exactly what I wanted and then, serendipitously, came across this post from Jenny Komenda at Little Green Notebook. (Her blog is a must-read for me--the girl can do it all!) After I saw it, I scoured eBay relentlessly until I found what I was looking for. Enter this stool:

C was scared of it at first (why are men so anti-lucite?), but when I showed him this fun fabric from Spoonflower, he said, "Okay, whatever..."

So here's the process. From start to finish, it took about 15 minutes:

1. First I removed the screws from the underside of the seat. Had some help here from a curious bystander.

In her finest jewels...

2.  Then I washed down the legs with warm soap and water, a tip I learned from Jenny's post (I had been using Windex on a lucite coffee table for years and it turned cloudy.), dried with a towel and presto! Sparkling. 

Yes, the 7 Eleven iced coffee is an essential part of the process.

3. I was pretty lazy about this and did not remove the original vinyl cover. Instead, I just pulled the fabric tight and used a Powershot staple gun to secure at "12 o'clock" and "6 o'clock" over the existing cover. Then, pulling tightly each time, I stapled down pleats all the way around. 

4. When it was stapled down, I trimmed the fabric so I could access the holes where the screws went back in. Then I put it back together. That's it!

The finished product (just ignore my floors--they're being refinished)

Assuming the position

xoxo