I'd suggest the edge-pulls as well.
Forms Surfaces makes what I consider to be the quintessential version:
www.forms-surfaces.com/products/pulls/metal.htm
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Have you taken the time to research that particular piano online? Who was the manufacturer? What model was it? It shouldn't be hard to find out if it's a particular desirable and valuable piano ...
No H.A. Rey? Mike Mulligan was my personal favorite overall, but I spent hours as a kid just admiring the simple and beautifully expressive illustrations of Curious George and the like.
Do observe that one would also need the accompanying pole hook, since these are to be mounted on the top rail of the upper sash, and usually out of reach.
I'd love to know where the frames come from. They look like cheap plastic novelty frames from around the 1950's--like something that might have been buried at the bottom of a junk-drawer in my gra...
Gut reaction says "Now," justified by all the reasons already stated.
The quality of the lighting and photography is too glossy and crisp--it has to be very recent. Overall, the whole...
Design excess. Trying waaaay to hard to be clever and interesting. One idea/concept to build around is all you need--it's often a sign of a very young, very greenhorn designer when a project has ...
...and yeah, I always shower/bathe in HOT water, so I'm totally cringing about how awful that setting is for those poor books.
Plus, how in the hell does one retrieve a volume from the...
I'd guess mid-1990's, based on the presence of the Tolomeo lamps and that nearly useless little table by the cheap, hospitality-trade-looking chair. The really thick black top on that table seems ...
1/4" plywood? Um...it wouldn't matter how well one sealed it, it would be almost guaranteed to buckle and warp in very short term. It wouldn't even take a major spill and leakage--just changes in...
I hope, HOPE, there's a sheet of glass or plexiglass or something on the side of that thing by the toilet. In the very least. Otherwise one incident of bad aim, or even just routine minor splatte...
I'd be inclined to strip it or paint it the same color as the ceiling--but I would make no effort to conceal the fact that it's cinder block. Actually, yeah--I'd clean the cinder block up and leav...
Turning that into a permanent sleeping space would actually be kinda illegal. You know--building codes, fire egress...that sort of thing. You'd just be making it all the more of a deathtrap if yo...
Typically it's most cost-effective to have multiple pieces done at once. I had an entire set of 1960's garden furniture done for a client and they didn't charge much more than they would have for ...
Drill a hole through into the mortar bewteen the bricks. That way you're not damaging the actual bricks, and the hole can be easily and indistinguishably filled in down the road.
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...that should be Forms *plus* Surfaces, but once submitted, the "plus" sign disappeared.
I'd suggest the edge-pulls as well. Forms Surfaces makes what I consider to be the quintessential version: www.forms-surfaces.com/products/pulls/metal.htm (...
Have you taken the time to research that particular piano online? Who was the manufacturer? What model was it? It shouldn't be hard to find out if it's a particular desirable and valuable piano ...
I'm a much bigger fan of BriWax
No H.A. Rey? Mike Mulligan was my personal favorite overall, but I spent hours as a kid just admiring the simple and beautifully expressive illustrations of Curious George and the like.
If someone wants him, they can have him. He's the most derivative, tiresomely imitative designer since Philip Johnson.
I would not just stub my toes on that--I would BREAK my toes.
Do observe that one would also need the accompanying pole hook, since these are to be mounted on the top rail of the upper sash, and usually out of reach.
I'd love to know where the frames come from. They look like cheap plastic novelty frames from around the 1950's--like something that might have been buried at the bottom of a junk-drawer in my gra...
Gut reaction says "Now," justified by all the reasons already stated. The quality of the lighting and photography is too glossy and crisp--it has to be very recent. Overall, the whole...
Design excess. Trying waaaay to hard to be clever and interesting. One idea/concept to build around is all you need--it's often a sign of a very young, very greenhorn designer when a project has ...
...and yeah, I always shower/bathe in HOT water, so I'm totally cringing about how awful that setting is for those poor books. Plus, how in the hell does one retrieve a volume from the...
I'd guess mid-1990's, based on the presence of the Tolomeo lamps and that nearly useless little table by the cheap, hospitality-trade-looking chair. The really thick black top on that table seems ...
1/4" plywood? Um...it wouldn't matter how well one sealed it, it would be almost guaranteed to buckle and warp in very short term. It wouldn't even take a major spill and leakage--just changes in...
I hope, HOPE, there's a sheet of glass or plexiglass or something on the side of that thing by the toilet. In the very least. Otherwise one incident of bad aim, or even just routine minor splatte...
It might be a Robert Sonneman design for George Kovacs Lighting.
I'd be inclined to strip it or paint it the same color as the ceiling--but I would make no effort to conceal the fact that it's cinder block. Actually, yeah--I'd clean the cinder block up and leav...
Turning that into a permanent sleeping space would actually be kinda illegal. You know--building codes, fire egress...that sort of thing. You'd just be making it all the more of a deathtrap if yo...
Typically it's most cost-effective to have multiple pieces done at once. I had an entire set of 1960's garden furniture done for a client and they didn't charge much more than they would have for ...
Drill a hole through into the mortar bewteen the bricks. That way you're not damaging the actual bricks, and the hole can be easily and indistinguishably filled in down the road.