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Thanks archinerd. Knew I could depend on someone with a name like yours. Sorry for not readin the comments first.

A lighter yellow off the wall, or a clean white marble to match the trim. Go simple & modern. Offset the river rock as much as possible.

I have one designer knockoff. It's a Barcelona loveseat. I needed something to seat two and didn't care for the daybed, and loved the Bauhaus Modernism of the Barcelona chair. It's a knockoff I can stand behind, because it riffs off the original. And the loveseat was like, $500 or so brand new, free shipping. I don't like to buy used upholstery, I have nightmares about bed bugs.

This is what it looks like, though this isn't the site I bought it at. Loveseat GIF

I paid like $150 a Euro-to-US converter for this
Pigeon Light,
because I thought the design was so clever it deserved to be rewarded. And so clever no one's knocked it off yet. It's an excellent bedside lamp. But it was way out of my budget & is the only light I've ever actually spent more than $10 on.

I'm a designer, I think it's important to support other designers. And I'm building a baby collection, you know. It's equally important to riff / build off of old designs. I don't know about the legal aspects of this, but I feel morally content with my design decisions. I don't know if there really is a high ground with this, in any case. I think people who buy fiberglass Eames repros are foolish because they're following a fetishization of the original whilst the actual philosophies are being ignored.

Everything else in my house, with the exception of IKEA bedslats & an IKEA closet (and some string lamps, yannoooh), is a street find, salvaged or I made it myself. My coffee table in front of the Barcelona sofa is, sad to say, a piece of masonite scrap on CMU blocks and my dining room table is acrylic scrap over found redwood frames.

paint the trim red or black & leave the doors white or wall-coloured.

if you want a more real one, buy a recyclable plastic one

the eames' were all about sustainable methods & the decision to switch from fiberglass to polyprop [i think] was one based on ecological decisions

be true to the concept not the aesthetic!!!!

i am impressed at the novel powdercoating technique & the surprising yet classic silhouettes of the pieces, but the colors are hideous.

Really and truly wreck the work, turning it from timeless to dated. Like, it looks like it's from Screech's bedroom or something....I guess Dustin Diamond IS from Wisconsin.....

can you post a how to for that excellent night stand? i have an old drum stand i want to do EXACTLY that to--its adorable!

olive oil will rot after a couple of months.

i would not use it to polish furniture. icky.

i think some of these suggestions would work best with the zest or rind of citrus fruit, not the juice itself (i.e. making a zest scrubs for body & home)

there was a project in readymade or maybe on instructables for turning a semi obsolete laptop into a media deck in your living room--i thought that was really wonderful & clever, it even had a sliding shelf for a keyboard & the screen was separated from the keyboard/drive & mounted on the wall...

love it----trubridge did a studio at my school (california college of the arts) & the students made a lot of similar pieces to the coffee table prototype... is this laser? cnc? diecut?

and yes....cat houses would be fantastic---with some scratching post inside or some components made of feltboard or something....