Comments on: Home Is Where the Heart Is http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Kimberly Lindbergs http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/#comment-2766 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:30:03 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/#comment-2766 Greg - I'm happy to share! I'd love to see a double feature of Visual Acoustics and Coast Modern. Hopefully both films will be more readily available soon. It's hard to find deals on mid-century stuff here in the bay area. Generally speaking the antique shops and second-hand stores are often really overpriced and the competition is HIGH. Of course living in a apt. means it's really impossible to get something and "fix it up" as well and I haven't used Craig's List much except for job and apt hunting. We've got nowhere to paint or refinish a piece that needs a lot of work but hopefully that will all change when we move. We do have some nice hand-me-down pieces, garage sale and ebay finds though. I am glad that modern design has become so accessible now. A lot of stores and shops are carrying easily affordable items that would have cost you 3x the amount at some high-end Italian shop 10 years ago. It's been amazing to watch the popularity of modern design grow over the past 20 years but it makes me extremely happy that I can walk into a giant place like Ikea or West Elm and find decent & affordable furniture now. That top pic is amazing! Love the view of LA but as someone pretty much born & raised in CA I keep wondering, what if a major earthquake hits? That Case Study House could go right down that hill. Ha! Greg - I’m happy to share! I’d love to see a double feature of Visual Acoustics and Coast Modern. Hopefully both films will be more readily available soon.

It’s hard to find deals on mid-century stuff here in the bay area. Generally speaking the antique shops and second-hand stores are often really overpriced and the competition is HIGH. Of course living in a apt. means it’s really impossible to get something and “fix it up” as well and I haven’t used Craig’s List much except for job and apt hunting. We’ve got nowhere to paint or refinish a piece that needs a lot of work but hopefully that will all change when we move. We do have some nice hand-me-down pieces, garage sale and ebay finds though.

I am glad that modern design has become so accessible now. A lot of stores and shops are carrying easily affordable items that would have cost you 3x the amount at some high-end Italian shop 10 years ago. It’s been amazing to watch the popularity of modern design grow over the past 20 years but it makes me extremely happy that I can walk into a giant place like Ikea or West Elm and find decent & affordable furniture now.

That top pic is amazing! Love the view of LA but as someone pretty much born & raised in CA I keep wondering, what if a major earthquake hits? That Case Study House could go right down that hill. Ha!

]]> by: Greg F http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/#comment-2764 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:21:26 +0100 http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/07/23/home-is-where-the-heart-is/#comment-2764 Kimberly, thank you for alerting me to the documentary on Julius Shulman. I was sorry to hear he died but a look at his life on film is the perfect way to celebrate his artistry. My wife and I are in love with mid-century design and always have been. Everything we buy we get at thrift stores and on Craig's list because that's where you can find amazing mid-century designs. We have not one but two Grundig turntable/radio consoles from the fifties (one in the living room and one in the bedroom). Our house is filled with artifacts of the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies. Just last week my wife found a 1971 radio console for twenty bucks. Unfortunately, the house we rent is a colonial so it's not the perfect fit but we're hoping one day to get beautiful mid-century design house. Anyway, we're obsessed and I have almost every mid-century Flickr site bookmarked. I can hardly wait to see this documentary now. And I would give ANYTHING to live in the house pictured at the top of the post! Kimberly, thank you for alerting me to the documentary on Julius Shulman. I was sorry to hear he died but a look at his life on film is the perfect way to celebrate his artistry. My wife and I are in love with mid-century design and always have been. Everything we buy we get at thrift stores and on Craig’s list because that’s where you can find amazing mid-century designs. We have not one but two Grundig turntable/radio consoles from the fifties (one in the living room and one in the bedroom). Our house is filled with artifacts of the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies. Just last week my wife found a 1971 radio console for twenty bucks. Unfortunately, the house we rent is a colonial so it’s not the perfect fit but we’re hoping one day to get beautiful mid-century design house.

Anyway, we’re obsessed and I have almost every mid-century Flickr site bookmarked. I can hardly wait to see this documentary now.

And I would give ANYTHING to live in the house pictured at the top of the post!

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