Archive for September, 2009
At Last Affordable Designer Furniture
Posted by Jeff Awesome in Interior Design on September 30th, 2009
Just a quick note from me today because I thought this would definitely interest you all, I saw a post on The Independent about a couple of designers, Matthew Hilton and Paul Newman, who have got together to connect high street furniture shops and real design talents. Most of the current batch produced ‘affordable’ furniture is designed by faceless companys who dont so much design furniture as throw together what spare materials they happen to have around.
It looks like it could be a big step forward in getting real designer furniture at affordable prices, imagine walking into a shop and seeing sofas designed by Robin Day and then realising you could actually afford it as well! Amazing!
Mark On Call
Posted by Jeff Awesome in Interior Design on September 25th, 2009
This is probably one of the most useful iPod Touch or iPhone apps I’ve found so far, its absolutely genius!
Very cool and very useful who would have thought you could design a room just using an iPod! Got a bit of furniture that you think would look cool somewhere else? get your iPod out and have a look without having to heave it all around yourself. Think the sofas would look better against the other wall? would they even fit? Hmm I think I have an app to help me with that!
It is a really well thought out little app and is so useful I would definitely recommend it. To find it go to the Mark On Call website
Celebrity Homes – 50 Cents ‘Crib’
Posted by Jeff Awesome in General Design on September 21st, 2009
I debated doing this house or not but decided I would just to show people how NOT to decorate a house. It isn’t possibly bad in the way you might expect with dodgy diamond and fur lining everywhere in fact it is distincly un ‘pimped’. It does however look like a very 80’s hotel.
I’ll start with the facts first.
- 51,657 square feet
- 19 bathrooms
- 19 bedrooms
- 4 kitchens
- Gym
- Movie theatre
- 2 swimming pools (one with a waterfall!)
- 5 jacuzzis (every self respecting man has 5 jacuzzis)
- 2 billiard rooms
- Indoor shooting range (presumably so he can practice his drive-bys)
- Handball court (what is handball?)
- Night club (yes, really)
So it is very well specced and with the jacuzzi’s, swimming pools, billiards rooms and a nightclub it definitely hints at a bit of a party house and would be the ultimate frat house.
That is the entrance hallway and to me that screams tacky hotel rather than somebody’s house. The use of awful rugs and pointless furniture are the kind of random things that get thrown in to decorate hotels. It just doesn’t seem like a very homely place.
The outside does looks amazing though with stunning landscaping. I wouldn’t mind living in one of the two guest houses thats for sure.
The inside ‘grotto’ pool is very reminiscent of a certain Playboy mansion.
Probably the only part of the house that gets used every day – The gym
The part of the house that never gets used and looks like it was decorated by his mum – the dining room
A rather unimpressive cinema room
And the main attraction point to the house – the in house club! I have to say though it looks pretty awful and if I went to a club that looked like that in town I would probably leave after half an hour.
In general the house just has a very80’s feel to it and needs some major updating.