Maison d'Etre

Sexy Stuff: Antimacassars

Suasoria (who I've been calling Susoria for a good three years now and who may or may not be this person) used a hot vocab word in her (his?) comment about my couch. Antimacassars. That's both a once-ubiquitous hair oil and the prophylactic bit of fabric used to protect chairs and sofas from your grubby little hands. My sofa does indeed still have hers. One of them is quite dirty, however. 

Anyone know how I can clean that? As you can see, Emma was no help.

Vintage Century Furniture Couch

 

I used to be a funny blogger with sort-of interesting headlines. I've lost my touch. It'll come back; I'm sure. In the meantime, all you nice people will have to suffer me my sofas and other paraphernalia (who knew that word was spelled like that...). This couch, which is covered in a fine, off-white damask fabric, is made by the Century Furniture company. I gather it's very well-made. I got it at The Brown Elephant, this terrific thrift store on Clark Street in Andersonville for a very fair $160. It was $195, but I saw this guy in front of me using a coupon from a local paper. I sent WJ out for a similar coupon and got 25% off.

Here's what I like about it:

single cushion bottom

buttons on the bottom cushion

neutral color

great shape

well-made

bed-bug free 

How long do you think it'll be before I tear off one of the buttons on the seat cushion?

Mantle Close to Done

I finally started to unpack my books and stuff. Here's what I did with the faux fireplace. Wendy Jo calls it a giant version of one of my collage boxes. I call it a mantle. More of this and I should be a bit happier. Also, bought a couch. That tomorrow.