
Shawn: This is the Pit & The Pendulum interpreted bad trick-style; each element offers up more terrifying menace and promises no possibility of escape. The hyper-florid drapes are the sort I’d expect from some Park Avenue dowager, and combined with the almost plush-looking wall paint, it all just makes me want to pop a Claritin®. As for the couch it’s, frankly, fucking humongous, with the asymmetrical-on-tope pattern screaming Florida, “Grandma’s ranch home,” and “1986″ at high decibel. The lone saving grace: the curtain tiebacks, that, in the event of a violent home invasion, could double as ninja stars.
Anonymous: Interesting. An entire room designed around the smocks of Bea Arthur (may she rest in peace).