My new chair

This chair is the reason Tiff had to ride home in the backseat. She was a good sport about it, maybe because she knew it would look so fabulous. When I moved into my house my parents gave me an incredibly comfortable and ugly couch and chair. Both were huge. This chair, though bigger than Tiff, is much smaller than what was there before and I get closer to the simple beauty I am striving for.

P.S. The cats love it and it looks great with my burlap pillow.

From ugly to oh my

Take a really ugly chair, one that would be easy to find almost anywhere. Read this Apartment Therapy post and turn it into this. Wowza.

Slowly, I am refurnishing my house on a budget. This gives me hope and more than one idea.

beauty in simplicity

My friend Michelle calls me a hoarder. In the sense of the TV show, I am not, but walking away from something free or better than what I have is hard. Lately my Pinterest has been filled with simple, virtually empty spaces. That is what I am drawn to. That is what I want to achieve. Beauty. Simple beauty. First thing to go? Tupperware.

yoga and the dumpster

My favorite yoga teacher has been traveling for months. Rumor had it that he would be back for last week's class. I was excited. When I got there, I became even more excited.

Next to the dumpster behind the studio were these two metal chairs. Oh heaven. I loaded them into my Ford Focus (you'd be amazed what I've fit in there) and happily went to class with rust stains down my pants.

The research I've done suggest that stripping metal can be a big pain, so I don't know how long it will be before there are after pictures. Until then bask in their potential.

tripod lamp

Last weekend I went on a DIY interior design jag. When I researched making a tripod lamp, the directions I found were "This is so easy you don't need directions." That's a lie. It is pretty easy, but I think it is important to tell you what I discovered along the way.

The tripod I bought has a small base with three screw holes and one screw to hold unto the camera. The screw that fits a camera is much smaller than a lamp kit base. For my lamp I needed to by a threaded nipple (a long cylinder that screws into the lamp kit), a converter (a small piece with a small threaded side and a wide threaded side) and a cap (this connects the converter to the nipple). All of these pieces were available in the lamp section of a small hardware store. The associate rethreaded (he went into the back and did something) that made the thread on the small side of the converter thinner so they corresponded with the threads on the tripod screw. Then and only then, was I successfully able to piece it together.