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Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3759
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 2:36 pm: |     |
It was free, whadja expect? |
breal
Citizen
Username: Breal
Post Number: 685
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:02 pm: | |
My vote: The 1/5/06 2:42 arrangement. Could be a page from "Domino." Looks fabulous. |
redY67
Citizen
Username: Redy67
Post Number: 4791
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:06 pm: | |
Love the furniture VIG! Especially since it cleans so easily! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3760
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 3:22 pm: | |
Thanks Breal & Red. Breal, that's the way it is now— (with the clutter gone & my mantle slightly rearranged) with the credenza moved you can actually walk through.
Unfortunately the cat realized she does like sitting on the white furniture. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 768
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 6, 2006 - 6:44 pm: | |
Love the new stuff - you're brilliant for using the sunbrella fabric!
Post more pics!! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3794
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 3:46 pm: | |
Ok, indulge me please. Might have an oil tank leakage issue, so I'm peeved.
Was in HomeGoods today getting a gift and found this mirror. I love mirrors, I love stars, I had to have it. I just propped it on the mantle, but will have to hang it I think, to center it in the space.
What do you all think? (I left the price tag on it in case I need to return it.)
I aslo got very simple roman shades. I think they're perfect, clean, simple. I may or may not hang rods above with decorative sheers of some kind.
Here are the photos (taken from the steps, that's the railing).
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Pippi
Supporter
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 1639
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 3:49 pm: | |
LOVE the mirror! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3795
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:00 pm: | |
Ya think it works? I like how it plays off the hanging star fixture in the hall. |
LilLB
Citizen
Username: Lillb
Post Number: 1181
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:01 pm: | |
It's BEAUTIFUL!!! Perfect for the room. Take that price tag off...it stays! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3796
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:08 pm: | |
Oh I love you guys. Thanks.
I'm sure my husband will agree, and if not, too bad!
Perhaps I will hang some of the other mirrors elsewhere in the room. Or not. Want to keep it kind of bare. |
doulamomma
Citizen
Username: Doulamomma
Post Number: 793
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:12 pm: | |
love it - I didn't even read what you posted at first & just saw the mirror & thought that I would post that I think it's great - unusual. Kudos on a great find! |
Pippi
Supporter
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 1641
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:14 pm: | |
I don't think the gold mirrors that were there will go in the room now.
put them somewhere else |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2622
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:21 pm: | |
Nice mirror. Looks beautiful. Hang it up!
Now the search begins for a couple of fantastic candle sconces to flank it? Or not. |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3798
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:22 pm: | |
Pippi,
That's cause you hate all my gold mirrors! I might agree though, just to not make the room too fussy.
This one has a gold frame as well, but with sort of black iron distressed balls on the edges. I was thinking, if it bothered me, I could always take a silver paint pen and add some to tone down the black, but I think it works ok. We do have some antique brass in the room, and I don't mind the combo.
DM, Homegoods had a couple, so it's not SO different, but it was "cost effective" and I liked the style. Works for me! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3799
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:26 pm: | |
Actually, Me&, those gold things on the mantle (next to all my pewter balls) can be turned upside down, and hung on the wall to hold pillar candles. I was thinking that as I propped the mirror up. My cousin
jimmy (www.jimmydiresta.com) made them and this gold framed mirror I have that has plaster versions of his hands holding it. The coolest thing is, his dad and my dad are first cousins and he somehow jimmy's hands remind me of my dad's. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 2624
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:35 pm: | |
See, there ya go. Bet they'd pretty cool hung on the wall. Go do it, put some candles in them and take a picture--quick!
BTW, if I might hijack your thread for a second, I have a cute story to share (or at least I think it's cute).
Leaving the house the other day with child #3, and he sees your children, #1 & #2, walking home from school (like big girls all by themselves!) He says to me, "wook fwends" (Interpretation: Look, Friends)! Then he yells across the street, "hi, fwends!" They were very sweet and said hi back.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled decorating dilemmas and solutions! |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3800
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 4:43 pm: | |
Oh, that's cute. My little one calls you guys "Buster's family."
I don't think I have pillar candles here, but will get some. But I need my husband to help hang it all up. The mirror is heavy! Plus, we'll need to anchor it, and it's the fireplace wall so this might be more of a project than one might think. |
BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 501
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 5:08 pm: | |
VIG-mirror is wonderful...the room is really taking on a wonderful life...also like the roman shades....the gold things on either side might really do the trick...
What a great trip this has been watching this room come together! Thanks for the ride!!!
:-) |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3802
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2006 - 5:19 pm: | |
Wow BGS, thank you so much.
I'm the type of person that nothing is ever done. I don't know why, but I'm always changing things. The opposite of my mom in that respect.
It's been fun posting all my updates and making an online scrapbook...I'm pitiful at doing it on paper so it's been a lot of fun for me. |
sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 3024
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 7:39 am: | |
I love it!
What did Mr. VIG say? |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 3805
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 10:25 am: | |
Well, Mr. Vig got home from a meeting late and is kind of upset about the oil tank situation, so he didn't even notice the mirror. His biggest complaint is what to do with all the other mirrors. He did like the way it looked, but he said he liked the other mirrors just fine. He just doesn't want a box full of mirrors in the attic.
I will make a nice grouping on a wall somewhere, and it will be just fine.
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BGS
Citizen
Username: Bgs
Post Number: 503
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2006 - 10:34 am: | |
VIG- two male friends of ours who were notorious decorators had the stair way wall covered in every sort of mirror. It was awesome...I often wished that I had a collection of framed mirrors to do that with.
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Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 4026
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 5:45 pm: | |
This is bizarre. For a few weeks, every so often, we hear this loud "pop" in the living room. I would run in and not see anything. My husband said he thought maybe the mirrors were "popping" off the frame.
So, coincidentally, I'm in there right now and "POP." A split second later, the lower right mirror falls off the frame and knocked one of those pewter balls on the floor. (Neither thing broke, other than the mirror falling off.)
There are a dozen or so spots of adhesive that obviously didn't work very well! Luckily I still have the receipt...hopefully the store will take it back! Maybe I will convince my husband to help me bring it back tonight.
My husband just walked in and said "bad news!" I don't need any more bad luck these days...back to the store it goes! |
Pippi
Supporter
Username: Pippi
Post Number: 1746
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 5:51 pm: | |
do you think this might have been how it got damaged??
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Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 4027
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 6:01 pm: | |
Well, of course that entered my mind, but the way it's cracked it looks like it was pushed too hard.
(Mirror forensics, I googled it.) 
Seriously, the mirror that's cracked is totally attached. Since that happened I have been feeling the mirrors to see if any of them was loose. This one felt kind of loose, of course I didn't think it would fall right off. So, no, I do think it was cracked by sheer brute Windex force. |
las
Citizen
Username: Las
Post Number: 967
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 6:42 pm: | |
I somehow managed to get lost.
Yes or no: Do you think the cleaning lady broke the mirror? |
Virtual It Girl
Citizen
Username: Shh
Post Number: 4028
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 8:30 pm: | |
Yes, I do.
(Accidentally, but nonetheless...) |
