As mentioned in the previous post, we didn’t have much furniture when we moved in to Purgatory and we have been very slow in buying new things, with one exception–just after we closed and took possession of the house, we purchased a dresser and two nightstands/end tables to match our platform bed. We bought the bed from Gingko Furniture right after moving in to the house in San Francisco, so we went back to them to find pieces that would match it. A few weeks after moving in to Purgatory, the new stuff arrived and we’ve been happy with our choices.
Fast forward to this spring and we decided to add another piece of furniture, something rather girly–a dressing table/desk. So it was back to Gingko, but they didn’t have anything that would do the job in their catalog, so we sat down with the guy at their Mountain View store and designed something that would work for us. Ten weeks later, it and a little seat were delivered and we hung a lighted mirror purchased off Amazon to match it. As a bonus, the mirror covers the holes in that wall left from the previous owners’ flatscreen TV.
Side note: the table and floor lamps are from Lamps Plus.
A few weeks after this, we went to Fanime and Clockwork Alchemy, where we purchased some things to hang on the walls. The end result is big improvement.
First, a shot of the scrolls we bought from Stephanie Kao that hang above our bed. Then while at Clockwork Alchemy I found some of Llyn Hunter’s punny prints to brighten up the closet area. It’s a bit hard to tell, but they are from left to right: box turtle, tree frog, snap dragons. They really do make the space a lot nicer, compared to the before shot (third pic).
And the last bit of decor in the room–after the dresser and nightstand arrived, we hung a painting purchased after our first trip to Australia together. We visited Mannum (a small town on the Murray River) and there is a curated gallery called The Wool Shed which has a lot of interesting artworks by Australian and Aboriginal artists. This was in 2009 before the artist, Gloria Petyarre, became all the rage, so who knows if it’s worth more or less than what we paid. We like it because it’s a great painting.
As you can see it’s not the traditional sort of Aboriginal painting, as she and other painters in her community have branched out from the dot painting motifs. This one is “Thorny Devil Lizard” and images of her other works can be found here.
At some point we will paint the bedroom something other than the yellowy-brown it is now, but at least we have the holes covered and things to our liking.