AllGuinness

With the way we are progressing with our remodeling efforts, we will be ready to actually buy some new furniture and do some decorating in the next twenty to thirty years. With that eye on the future I have been thinking about how we should set up the interior of this house, and what would look good. This presents a problem for me. The house is something of an enigma. It was built in 1910, and is therefore contemporary with Arts and Crafts houses built in this area. The problem is that while there are a few real Arts and Crafts elements in the house, most of the house is something else. It certainly isn’t victorian, and it is too plain for something like Deco or Nouveau, so what are we left with? The house is almost certainly something sort of transitional in nature. As a result, all concepts for design seem wrong. I think that we will, in reaction to this wrongness, go a completely different direction, and head to a more modern design style, or at least mid-century modern.

My thinking is that trying to force Arts and Crafts stuff in here will look clumsy, but going in another direction entirely will look stylish and intentional. Really though, have you priced any of that modern design type stuff? It can get astronomical. I like Eames reproduction (in the sense that it is a new production chair, and not an original run) chairs, but I’m not sure I’ll ever be prepared to spend $4,000 on one, either financially or emotionally. There are some cheaper options available, naturally, but I don’t know if I can get close to the quality I want at the price I want to pay. The problem here is that I need to be rich.