11/20/13
FURNISHINGS: Eras, Styles, Colors, Themes, Pricing source
FURNISHINGS: Eras, Styles, Colors, Themes, Pricing source
Do they select contemporary designer furniture, period
antiques, or one-of-a kind craftsman-built pieces? Purchase factory-made lines
and/or matching suites from mass-market department and furniture stores? Are
they surrounded by furniture and objects inherited from family? Do they prefer
or require the budget friendliness of scouring yard sales, thrift shops, and
Craigslist? Are they addicted to the serendipitous thrill of dumpster diving
and hunting for freebies on trash day? Are they do-it-yourselfers? Do they
adhere to specific decorating rules, periods, themes, and colors, or mix things
up? Quite likely, they furnish their homes by using a combination of these
options.
Here are sources to explore for furnishing ideas:
Contemporary and
Modern Designer Furniture:
1) Geiger
Geiger includes bios and product photos of contemporary
designers of home and office furniture.
2) Interiordezine.com
This site provides a useful outline of iconic modern
furniture by designers and architects by timeline, 1900-1999; includes sketches
of furniture pieces and bios of their designers.
Period Furniture and Decorating
Styles:
1) Interiordezine.com
This section of the Interiordezine.com site provides
outlines and sketches of design and furniture by period or decorating style.
2) Connected Lines
A good source for decorating style from 1600 to 1950,
Connected Lines includes a timeline, brief style descriptions, and sketches of
representative furniture pieces and fabrics and materials used to construct
them.
Mass Market-targeted Furniture
and Furnishings:
1) Macy’s
Macy’s is the ultimate destination for mass market
furnishings, with delivery available coast-to-coast.
2) Cost Plus World
Market
Cost Plus World Market offers a variety of furniture and
furnishings at mass market prices.
3) IKEA
Prices range from budget to mid-priced. One advantage of
browsing IKEA is to discover what is offered at stores located in various
countries.
Budget Furniture and
Furnishings:
1) Shop Goodwill.com
This site may not replace Ebay, but it bills itself as the
first Internet auction site created, owned, and operated by a nonprofit:
Goodwill of Orange County in Santa Ana, CA. Items for auction are supplied by
Goodwill organizations across the United States and organized into broad
categories. Additionally, items are slotted under “buy now,” “new today,” “(auction)
ending today,” and under the tantalizing heading of “Hot 50.
2) Décor Steals
The site focuses on decorative items at discount prices. Items
are added daily and offered for limited-time, outright sale.
Free Stuff:
Craigslist
Choose a geographical location from this Craigslist page.
Under the “For Sale” category, choose “free.”
Interesting Blogs:
1) Antique Alter Ego
A husband and wife-owned site that focuses on 1950s, 60s,
and 70s design and decorating that was aimed at the middle class in the United
States. It contains photos of furniture, decorative objectives, tiles, house
plans, and fences, etc, culled from vintage catalogues.
2) Ana White
This site includes plans, videos, techniques, and an active
forum on building or adapting moderately-priced, practical furniture, and links
to blogs of other do-it-yourself women.
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