Finished my vintage living room.

[boykster]

no offense, but that furniture and decor wouldn't even have been marginally stylish or cool back when that junk was new....

 

[patrickl]

BTW, is this a still shot from one of your home movies?

Looks like a DrWho episode to me. The one where the medical nanobot ship crashes during a bomb raid on London during WWII.

[ChadTower]

On the plus side, he's done a nice job cleaning up all that wood.  It sure didn't come out of the thrift stores like that.

[sez]

On the plus side, he's done a nice job cleaning up all that wood.  It sure didn't come out of the thrift stores like that.

That's about the only wood that'll ever be in that room.

[ChadTower]

The presence or absence of a woman does not necessarily dictate wood.  I bet that flatscreen sees much porn.

It does help, though.

[TOK]

Edit to add: It might look a little more homey when the empty fishbowl is filled up with human eyeballs.

[patrickl]

He has lots of pictures of girls in his gallery. Maybe the girls that ran away and he quickly shot a picture?

[DrewKaree]

Paige, I am willing to travel and I DEMAND an invite to your next party.  That HAD to be quite a bender to cause the 70's to throw up that violently all over your living room

[NightGod]

These pics are seriously freaking me the ---fudgesicle--- out.

[paigeoliver]

Also, considering painting the whole room orange. I am not supposed to paint in my apartment, but the place has been bought and sold since I moved in, and the present absentee landlord has never even seen the place. Plus the existing paint/walls are in terrible condition and would need to be repainted when I left anyway.

But, I got the apartment $100 cheaper a month than usual due to the poor condition of the carpet and paint, that has saved me $6000 so far, and I might still live there for years to come, so a little bit of money to paint, and then paint back white when I move will be well worth it.

[Texasmame]

Also, the giant couch doesn't look quite so "grandma" in person, the flash was making it look different.

We picked out creepy pictures on purpose.

Charlton Heston stars as "Jesus."   

[Kremmit]

A little retouching can do wonders for those creepy thrift store pics.  For example, this one hangs on the bathroom wall out in my gameroom:

[Howard_Casto]

Leave the poor guy alone with his "womenz" problems, with taste like that, he's got far far more issues to deal with first. 

Seriously, 40's style is cool as is 30's and 50's... you've got a really creepy late 60's early 70's thing going on there.  The problem with that is all things from that era looked awful (probably due to all the drugs) and nobody ever looked back once the 80's came along. 

[jbox]

A little retouching can do wonders for those creepy thrift store pics.  For example, this one hangs on the bathroom wall out in my gameroom:

   

[danny_galaga]

BTW, is this a still shot from one of your home movies?

Looks like a DrWho episode to me. The one where the medical nanobot ship crashes during a bomb raid on London during WWII.

well spotted! also in the previous pic you can see christopher eccleston...

[jbox]

BTW, is this a still shot from one of your home movies?

Looks like a DrWho episode to me. The one where the medical nanobot ship crashes during a bomb raid on London during WWII.

well spotted! also in the previous pic you can see christopher eccleston...

Who cares about Eccelston? I'd take Piper (or even Barrowman) over Eccelston any day of the week. 

Edit by saint - Dr. Who spoiler below. *Bonk* Jbox!
What'd everyone think of the end of Season 3 by the way? "It's always the women..." 

[paigeoliver]

Actually I think the ugliest period/type of furniture is that late 70s/early 80s western type stuff with the thick wood frames and the coarse material on it. And almost anything newer than that falls apart if you touch it, unless you spend a fortune on it.

[leapinlew]

After recently having a date that went well enough that an actual woman saw my apartment I decided to redo the whole living room.

To hell with decorating the living room. What really matters is having a decorated bedroom, bathroom and having a sturdy kitchen table. At least, thats all that matters with the girls I date.

[danny_galaga]

After recently having a date that went well enough that an actual woman saw my apartment I decided to redo the whole living room.

To hell with decorating the living room. What really matters is having a decorated bedroom, bathroom and having a sturdy kitchen table. At least, thats all that matters with the girls I date.

doesnt matter what i do. they lose interest after about a month anyway  there's only so much that  fantastic sex and a huge erm, joystick will get you with teh wimmings 

[JackTucky]

Lew:

IIRC, paige is not a fornicator like you are.  You dirty whore.

*Edit* You too Sez

=J

[leapinlew]

Lew:

IIRC, paige is not a fornicator like you are.  You dirty whore.

Well he should be. YOU all should be

[Texasmame]

A little retouching can do wonders for those creepy thrift store pics.  For example, this one hangs on the bathroom wall out in my gameroom:

+10

[Zakk]

Actually I think the ugliest period/type of furniture is that late 70s/early 80s western type stuff with the thick wood frames and the coarse material on it. And almost anything newer than that falls apart if you touch it, unless you spend a fortune on it.

By fortune, do you mean more that $32.50 for a bedroom suite?

[Dervacumen]

No way!

That picture of the mother and daughter that's above the TV was in my house over my couch when I was growing up in the 70's.  Like an oil painting or something.  I wonder if it's the same one?  Maybe it was just popular back in the midwest - my mom brought it with her from across the river in Woodriver, IL when she moved out to Cali.

There was a second picture in the same genre that was up there too.

[sez]

Lew:

IIRC, paige is not a fornicator like you are.  You dirty whore.

*Edit* You too Sez

=J

Who are you calling dirty pal!

[Havok]

Hey, is that an Atari juke?

[paigeoliver]

Rockola actually.

Also, did someone GUESS that I paid $32 for my bedroom furniture, or did I mention it a long time ago and someone remembered?

Hey, is that an Atari juke?

[pointdablame]

Also, did someone GUESS that I paid $32 for my bedroom furniture, or did I mention it a long time ago and someone remembered?

Zakk is actually stalking you...  you should see the life size replica of you in his closet...he tries to send pics of it to everyone.

Be very scared... especially since he's a realtor.

[nostrebor]

Also, did someone GUESS that I paid $32 for my bedroom furniture, or did I mention it a long time ago and someone remembered?

It was more of an assumption than a guess.

[leapinlew]

Also, did someone GUESS that I paid $32 for my bedroom furniture, or did I mention it a long time ago and someone remembered?

It was more of an assumption than a guess.

 

[Donkey_Kong]

Re-upholster the couches/Love Seat, paint the tables and end tables, turn the old school TV into an aquarium, and burn the pictures.

Do all this and you will have the coolest living room...EVAR!

[sez]

Re-upholster the couches/Love Seat, paint the tables and end tables, turn the old school TV into an aquarium, and burn the pictures.

Do all this and you will have the coolest living room...EVAR!

and blue carpet!  Don't forget the blue carpet!

[DrewKaree]

Re-upholster the couches/Love Seat, paint the tables and end tables, turn the old school TV into an aquarium, and burn the pictures.

Do all this and you will have the coolest living room...EVAR!

and blue carpet!  Don't forget the blue carpet!

* DrewKaree hates Sez for the image that won't scrub clean in his mind of Paige and "the blue carpet"

Sez, you truly suck.

Cram it in your cramhole

[Havok]

Where's the velvet Elvis?

[Zakk]

Re-upholster the couches/Love Seat, paint the tables and end tables, turn the old school TV into an aquarium, and burn the pictures.

Do all this and you will have the coolest living room...EVAR!

and blue carpet!  Don't forget the blue carpet!

* DrewKaree hates Sez for the image that won't scrub clean in his mind of Paige and "the blue carpet"

Sez, you truly suck.

Cram it in your cramhole

She does suck.  However, I am glad for that. 

[SavannahLion]

What the deuce?? Is that my juke there? Mom better not've thrown out Grandmas jukebox.

Can't have a grill inside! 

Just last night I was reading the 'Summer Storm Safety' sheet that the town Light and Power mailed out.  Among "have flashlights" and "unplug major appliances" in the event that power goes out, they threw in "do not grill indoors".  At first, I couldn't understand who would do that.  Now I do.

Funny story about that. I used to work at The Home Depot in the returns department. Do you want to take a guess at how many people would return their BBQ's for that reason?

I don't know who is at the bottom of the IQ rope, people who try to use their BBQ indoors or that mother who bought her six year old a new lawnmower. 

[sez]

* DrewKaree hates Sez for the image that won't scrub clean in his mind of Paige and "the blue carpet"

Sez, you truly suck.

Cram it in your cramhole

 

[paigeoliver]

According to a few people who are actually know a bit about the respective subjects that big couch and that TV are both actually fairly valuable pieces and should not be messed up, at all.

Also, the pictures are pretty much fine once I get rid of those victorian pictures.

Re-upholster the couches/Love Seat, paint the tables and end tables, turn the old school TV into an aquarium, and burn the pictures.

Do all this and you will have the coolest living room...EVAR!

[ChadTower]

So sell them and get something that may not work against you if you get a woman in there.  I don't see how a couch possibly being worth a few hundred is worth not getting any.

[paigeoliver]

The couch has done fine in that department so far. 

So sell them and get something that may not work against you if you get a woman in there.  I don't see how a couch possibly being worth a few hundred is worth not getting any.