Richard: You know what? I am totally onboard for this. No, seriously: I am madly in love with this room. I mean, who doesn’t dig Wedgwood? And this — this isn’t just Wedgwood, it’s Wedgwood for the Miley Cyrus Generation, WEDGWOOOOOD TO THE EXXXXXTREME. My grandmother would probably hate it, but I find it exciting and new — like an episode of the Love Boat featuring guest stars Wendy O. Williams, Boadicea, and Dr. Bombay. (If only, right?)
My sole gripe is with that Walmartian gold mirror hanging in the corner: (a) it’s a horizontal line in a room full of verticals (save one fuzzy exception), and (b) one of those five queens should’ve known to get something silver to match the sling.
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Let me be the first (literally) to say this room sans occupants, sling and 60′s-style chairs would actually be a nice place to sit around in and conspire popular revolution like in Dr Zhivago. Unfortunately the Russian tea-room effect doesn’t mix well with, say, fisting. My greatest concern here is for the fine porcelain and ceramic in the hutch and on the wall. I do so hope Grandpapa doesn’t use his his Wedgewood vase as a cum-bucket once the blue plastic one on the floor fills up…
The first thing I thought of when I saw this image was the classic kid’s game “Barrel of Monkeys.”
I’m all about mixing furniture styles in one room but this dining table just doesn’t work with the rest of the decor. Guys, you scarfed the Colonial stuff from Grandma’s attic….. Free….. Spend the time and money on a table more suited for the room. A different style? Fine. But Late 70′s High Tech would not have been my first choice.
And if that IS their dining room table, I’m eating out. These fine gentleman have decided to order in. Way in, from the looks of things. Where is that soy sauce? Wait! I found it.
How many maids do you think these boys go through? The paper towels hanging from the hardware is a thoughtful touch. Cleanliness Is next to Godliness.
Is that a collection of misshapen dildos in the background (slightly visible just over the peak of Mt. Fistee)? Or are those ceramic urns containing the cremains of Mother, Grandmama and his beloved cat, Mister Bojangles (BoJo for short)?
And gentleman please! Look at that beautiful floor. It’s the only attractive wood in the entire room. In more ways than one. Can we please put down some plastic or something?
Richard, with all do respect to your opinion, I have to disagree with you. First of all, the shade of blue is all wrong in this room. This dark royal blue, if you will, is a romper room blue vs. a wedgewood blue or blue that goes with the porcelain collection. Granted, the activities of this room lend themselves to the romper room kind, mixing that with the collectibles is just dangerous and bad interior design. This is reminding me of the WalMart sling pic from a few months back. All together, this interior design is incongruous, like our WalMart sling friend. Instead of injuring themselves on a cat clawing apparatus, the guests in this romper room are going to break a priceless collection of Pier 1 Imports pottery.
Also, there is not just one mirror in this room on one wall; but four mirrors (two in one panel) — all of vastly different styles, none of which, in my opinion are really serving an interior design purpose other than allowing the romper room acrobats to view themselves on the sling. I believe there needs to be another interior design aesthetic need occurring to demand this level of dissonant reflection. Not cutting it for me.
Also, towels belong on the seat not on the back of the chair. We may need to relacquer the wood here.
Also, the cordless phone accessorizing the right wall is just WRONG! It saying that the cordless phone is as important as Hummels or faux Ming vases. That’s crazy talk and crazy design. I want the name of the interior designer who put that cordless phone there. Their license should be revoked.
Finally, the blue plastic waste bin. Granted cleanliness is next to godliness; but there needs to be more consistency in the aesthetic here. I’m sure Pier 1 sells a faux Ming vase trash can. That would have worked much better in this room.
Frankly, I prefer to design rooms with slings to have a more utilitarian and industrial feel. It seems to be more consistent with the activities that will take place in the room. I have rarely had someone hire me to make their sling room into an area for collectibles. I do understand the designer’s confusion when working the color pallete wheel at Sherwin Williams. I think I would have chosen a more grey blue instead. Wedgewood blue with a steely quality maybe. And yes, I agree that a stainless steel accent should have been more accentuated in other design elements in this room.
Boy. Am I ever glad I read your comments first. I was thinking this was some sort of odd Greek Child Birthing room. Either way, we have a problem with accessories. too much clutter on the walls. And how much trouble would it have been to have the guys at the local paint and body shop to spray the bare metal a more appropriate color.
@GS: I can totally agree with you about the unpleasant panoply of mirrors. I can also agree about the wireless phone, which I totally hadn’t noticed for some reason. I will even grant that the wastebasket and the towels are terribly out of place. (I was being generous and assumed they were merely temporary additions to the scene.)
However, I’m sticking by that non-Wedgwood but insanely hot electric/royal blue, which makes this dining room-cum-dungeon totes neo-80s and au courant. (Which may be an oxymoron.) I mean, could you imagine the walls decked out in that sage green that Wedgwood used for its Jasperware (http://ow.ly/Kpwm)? Talk about unflattering….
…..clever placement of the paper towel dispenser (top of sling within easy reach of the fister)…. and extra points for creating such a muli-use space: sling / dining room. When one has limited space, it is important to think beyond the anus in hand….. like what’s for dinner and who is comming….
I really like how he put newspaper out on the floor…
Somehow the whole thing looks like a big Steam Engine..
The molding is sloppily painted, for one thing. And all this happening so close to that china cabinet makes me nervous. If you’re going to have this kind of setup, you should leave room for all sorts of swinging and flailing without worrying about shattered glass and broken china.
I once saw a mirror just like the one on the right, at a thrift shop. The curlicues at the corners were cheap plastic.
A setup like this needs to be in the garage or the basement, not in a fussy dining room. Totally wrong setting, guys. So take your assault on Santa somewhere else.
The blue, white, and brown motif of this room is a bit overwhelming to me. I would have preferred that each of 4 visible bears/cubs were wearing red felt Santa hats. After all Xmas is a mere 2 weeks away and this room cries out for a holiday theme. Best of all if they were all wearing Santa hats then this would be my Christmas card selection for 2009 (sorry Nana!) with the inside of the card saying something like “hope you enjoy your reindeer games”.
PS: Kudos to Nashbear for the “Greek birthing room” comment. I spit up my Propel water on the keyboard reading that
Talk about a bear in a China shop…
I could never actually have a good time in this room. One wrong “kick” or “punch” and a priceless object could get broken.
With apologies to Nashbear & Luddite, I’m thinking more like Vomitorium…
Blue can be cool and relaxing, but not this one. I’m glad also it’s not that flat Wedgewood green. Depressez-vous!
Some natural light would help but, considering the present activities, open windows may not be prudent.
Perhaps the whole house is like the White House with rooms of many colors. Can you imagine the RED room?
This is what depravity looks like. It is neither attractive nor sexy. In 1955 this room would smell of Vitalis and ass. In 1965 it would smell of patchouli and rank armpit. In 1975 it would smell of stale, rancid Crisco and ammonia. Today it just smells.
I can’t believe there’s not a full-size plaster Venus de Milo in the corner.
What GEO said…..I would add that it is handy to keep the sewing basket nearby should the fisting just get totally out of control.
The paper towel on the floor is in the shape of a duck, a silent duck no doubt.
Luddite, I think the Christmas card caption should read “Have A Very Beary Fist-mas”
I swear, my very favorite thing in the whole room is the used paper towel “duck” (well-spotted Christophe). I think he should remove great-great-Aunt Mildred’s china from the cabinet and start a collection of these charming soiled Bounty creations.
I’m rather fascinated by the little bracket with the big gurl phone on it, to the far right by the door. And second of all, I’m on edge with anxiety that grandaddy sitting on the chair is going to get excited, kick a leg (or slip-scoot on wayward Crisco), and launch himself, chair and all, through the glass doors on the china cabinet. This room is a disaster in so many ways, potential and actual.
That they’re using a trashcan that (more or less) matches the rest of the interior is kinda sweet.
If Mister Physter were to accidentally slide his towel covered Country-French chair back just a few inches, all action would cease with the clatter of shattering glass and fragmenting Wedgewood.
With not a hint of foot protection in sight.
Safety first!
That shade of blue is all wrong. It’s too vulgar and harsh for the china. And none of the finish of the entire paintwork looks poor to me. And please let’s not even discuss the mirrors !
I think if we were to adhere to the theory that form follows function, we would have to either use the room for eating or for fisting but not both. To be charitable, decorating a dining/fisting room would be hard for anyone to pull off successfully, as fisiting and fine china are a hard combo to reconcile.
As it now stands, the room gives off a very strong vibe of an old hotel, that may have once been quite nice, but now is used as a half way house for war vets with mental disorders as they begin the task of reintegration into society. I think it’s the combo of Section 8 blue and total lack of balance from all the randomly place and mismatched mirrors.
I’m trying to imagine it without the sling and occupants (or even the chairs) and even then, I think it comes down to a REALLY bad/sloppy paint job – almost anything they did when that paint job is the back drop is going to look horrible.
Everyone knows that mixed metals just doesn’t really work for todays decorating schemes. Combining metals of different colors and textures is a challenge best left to the experts. Having said that, The smashup of the bronzed gold tone of (certainly molded plastic) horizontal mirror+contemporary *timeless* brass mantle clock reflected in the the mirror+the galvanized steel of the DIY @ Lowes sling just equals a busy, busy mistake.
This is not design on a dime; it’s design on a Charity Shop voucher.
I’m sorry to be pedantic, but that is NOT Wedgwood blue, it is far too dark! Far closer to the blues used by Spode in their “blue and white” range
I just had the horrid thought that this is the Dining Room!. People actually eat in there.
Suppose you were there at the fancy dinner, of course – Wedgewood-covered dining table, and then some joker pulls out this photograph on their iPhone?
I just threw up a little in my mouth. Quick, fetch me a fancy napkin folded like a duck, uh, like the one sitting just under the sling….uh…ARRRGH!
Pity the poor Goldilocks who wanders into THIS cottage by mistake!
I’m hoping against hope that there’s an actual table to go with those ugly chairs which has merely been temporarily moved elsewhere in order to make room for this… Country Bear Jamboree but I’m only too aware that the sling may do double duty as dining room furniture because some Bears are Just. That. Dedicated. And while I can absolutely appreciate the ingenuity involved in using sling railing as a make-shift paper towel dispenser, like @GS I find myself somewhat put-off by the gentleman who goes to all the trouble of carefully draping a towel over the BACK of his chair while leaving the seat itself rather blatantly unprotected. Seems a little ass-backwards, if you asked me. But then, from the look of the Jerque du Soleil goings-on we see before us, I’m guessing that hygiene isn’t necessarily the very first priority at Chez Yogi. Not by a long shot.
Still, the Wedgwood theme IS a lovely and off-beat attempt for such a salon and gives you plenty of other things to look at and concentrate on.
Fortunately.
OK, couple things. I’m guessing this is taking place in a predominantly Victorian town like SF (my hometown) so I must disregard all comments from the Phoenix crowd who simply don’t understand that when your home was built in 1904 it doesn’t have a garage and the dining room is actually a very appropriate choice for the playroom (since you’re renting out the double-parlour to the skinny white hot kid and you always eat in bed anyway.) That said, there are some very on the mark comments: the blue is totally wrong, the paper towel holder is tawdry (one of the must be of German ancestry), the newspapers are simply scandalous, ABSOLUTELY there are blue & white Chinese umbrella stands that SHOULD have been the trash can, and yes; the horizontal mirror is an affront against the universe. No question. Well I could go on. Bottom line, looks like they’re having a raucous good time. The skinny kid is oblivious and learning the ropes and the old queens are simply leveraging their sweat equity Hats off!!
It’s madness! It’s frames! It’s framed madness!!!
This is Delft, not Wedgewood, from the city mostly famous for canals. Need I say more?
the china’s reproduction and the cabinet isn’t.
why doesn’t the sling pull down from the ceiling like a quilting frame?
What worries me is the fat guy in the mirror who ought to be in the foreground of the picture. What kind of reverse vampire appears in a mirror but not in a photo?
I just think BULL IN A CHINA SHOP, when I look at this. TGD
A $3.99 can of Krylon winter white spraypaint would vastly improve the mishmosh of cheap framed mirrors. Come on!! $3.99! SPLURGE!!!
Okay.
So, no.
My ish is not with the color choices and decor per se. I think basing a dining room around Wedgewood is really daring and it seems they’ve pulled it off. Bravo! I probably couldn’t martial the talent for that.
But here’s the thing: I think it strains to bursting the whole idea of the multi-purpose room. Kichen/Dining Room? Sure! Living Room/Home Office? Careful! But go ahead! Bedroom/Library? That makes sense! But Dining Room/Dungeon just doesn’t make it.
My recommendation would be to take the bull by the horns and turn the guest room (they can stay at a hotel) into a nice Rumpus Room. The sling, the mirrors, maybe a wet bar(!)… And calling it a Rumpus Room rather than a dungeon frees you to avoid the traps of all that black and the iron sconces on the walls. (Or, heaven forfend, doing crappy faux treatments to make the walls “look” like stone.) How about marble garden benches and a water feature to give it a Night At The Caracalla feel! Or a lot of woodsy natural elements to make it the perfect scene for your own pagan rites!
But lets keep the dining room for eating things on plates.
I wonder if this is what Oscar Wilde had in mind when he said, “I can’t live without my blue and white china.” Surprised no one has yet identified the pattern, cobalt blue transferware ‘Blue Willow’ on the wall with other patterns in and on the cabinet, united by all being blue, cheap and from Cost Plus. This is ‘repurposing’ gone too far. Though the current occupants seem oblivious, this room is sexy as a jock strap made of grandma’s old doilies.
@Blndbum,
Our Cost Plus has never carried reproduction Blue Canton. All I recall is those horrid CARP plates.
A quick search found them stocking thus: http://www.worldmarket.com/family/index.jsp?view=all&categoryId=3499212
Which, thankfully, is not found in their Tawdry Dining Room of Shame.
So, here’s the thing: yes, the color is off and the mirrors are a crime against humanity. However, my interest in this tableau is the fact that there are no genitalia visible in this picture. You’ve got five, count ‘em, FIVE bears going at it and yet every single one of them is blushingly covered by some fig leaf or other, whether by a tastefully positioned leg or by a beer gut. This fact suggests to me that this picture is the result of extensive planning and staging. Unfortunately, the décor did not receive the same careful attention.
Brandon, let’s just be thankful for small favors there.
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U guys are hysterical. The guys in the picture are just amusing. The decor is, shall we say is eh… Crestfallen.
Luddite, there’s no Santa hats because it’s obviously a Hanukkah party. I suspect that the gold mirror was meant to evoke Hanukkah gelt, but coins come in silver as well as gold, so why clash?
Ross, I doubt it is a Chanukkah party, cuz there is nothing kosher about this.
I am -never- going to any formal dinner at that house. the things that china has seen….
To me, the phantom bear in the mirror adds an almost Velazquez touch to the composition. He is the artist – the composer of the setting. All he needs is a painter’s palette. So continue the metaphor, obviously the skinny guy is Margaret of Austria and she is being eaten out by her maidservant.
I love an eclectic interior, but this is eclecticism run amok. Mixing Colonial Revival captain’s chairs with 19th-century transferware AND a mid-century sling is wrong, very wrong. I suspect that our host, however, is missing a priceless Staffordshire cup and seeing if it is really true that things turn up in the most unlikely places.
Chanukah? Impossible! This entire room is dreck – a shondeh!
First, i must admit…. i AM having a moment. The first time any of my submissions to this lovely site have been deemed suitable for dissection. What first screamed at me was the Blue….. not of the vast calming sky, not of the tropical lagoons that dot the Pacific. No, the blue that simply NEVER works in any interior excepting as an occasional accent vase or geegaw. I’ve yet to read any comments about the dog food bowl in the extreme lower right corner (complete with red rubber bone) The luriddigs logo somewhat obscures it. Just to clear up a question of provenance… This greasy hell hole is on the Northwest side of Chicago. Definitely a rental, either a Wood clapboard Victorian 3- Flat, or a Brick multi-unit (18-48) courtyard building.
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This looks disturbingly like someone’s trying to make a gay version of the cult horror film HUMAN CENTIPEDE, in which a mad scientist creates a creature with a single brain/digestive system out of three people fused together at the mouth and anus; in which case, the guys above have possibly discovered the only way to make a shared butthole even *more* inconvenient…
I want to say this room scares me to absolute bits but I do want to thank the nice person that remembered Wendy O. Williams. I just wish she were alive to put a chainsaw to this horror show. And you know she would.
@Snotty You know she’d do it! And she’d scare all of the guys out of the room too!
it’s been over 12 years since we lost wendy ..wendy, we hardly knew ye…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_O._Williams
chains, chains everywhere….do people really punch others in the ass???