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Why would you buy an old house if you want a modern style? Leave the old stuff to people who really want it.


Apartment Therapy Boston | Paint These Cabinets for More Modern Look? Good Question
10/5/09 9:54 PM

I don't care about the lights, but I LOVE that stool in the first picture!


Apartment Therapy Chicago | 5 Places to Use a Pendant Lamp
9/1/09 9:21 PM

I think if the emphasis is on shelter in an emergency, it doesn't have to look like an art installation.


Apartment Therapy New York | RED HOUSING Emergency Shelter Prototype
8/26/09 2:11 PM

"So what is the comment? That fat people are useless... you know, since humans are furniture? I think this is disgusting. The last thing the world needs is a new, clever way to mock obesity."- Right on, Beth.b

If he's "alluding to...consumption", then how was he able to afford expensive chairs? Someone must want to buy or invest in his trash. Now something that could have at least been used will eventually go the way of the rest of the garbage. This is the exact reason I have never been a fan of installation-type "art". It has no real purpose other than to make an overly pretentious statement, while alienating a group of people. Great job, Mark.


Apartment Therapy Chicago | Fattened Eames Chairs
8/26/09 2:08 PM

"-Extravagant and painstakingly organized "craft rooms". You probably spend more time organizing your fabric and color coding your scrapbook paper than you do actually crafting."

I understand what you're saying, but as an avid crafter if my things aren't (almost) meticulously organized, it is totally off putting to work. Crafting- any kind of crafting- makes a HUGE mess, so if everything is organized to begin with, it makes it SO MUCH EASIER to find things etc.

Onto the pet peeves:

-Horrible 80's/early 90's furniture.
- tile in every single room of the house (this is the past TWO houses, mind you, and it hurts my heels!)
-my mother-in-law's decorating sense (I call it "old lady chic"- ruffles, lace, and more ruffles and lace.)
-faux anything
-people who PAINT over perfectly good wooden objects, thus ruining the purpose of it being wood.
-people who go in and "update" i.e. RUIN older houses- I see this WAY too much on craftster. Leave them alone and go buy a Mcmansion.
- people who DIY/"upcycle" common objects into furnishings- for the most part, it just looks stupid. Yes, we know your lamp was made with dixie cups. Good for you.
-Taping off squares on your wall and painting them.
-Framing fabric as wall decor
-the same granite countertops in the kitchen, master bathroom, and guest bathroom (Hello my current rental!)
-The fact that I can't see what's on the granite countertops in the kitchen- if I am going to cook, I have to know its clean!
-decoupage. is. awful.

I think that's about it for my personal pet peeves, but I have enjoyed reading everyone elses.


Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Your Biggest Design Pet Peeves Austin
8/20/09 10:37 PM

Trash- you can't USE a couch that's been painted, and I have had enough of (formerly useful, now useless) painted objects. Also- definitely over this whole "urban" style- totally impractical and UGLY.

On the pretentious side, they also look like something painted by a teenager that feels using spray paint is "cool". Ripped off/ Japanimized cartoon imagery is trite- NOT ART.


Apartment Therapy New York | The Painted Couch: Art or Trash?
8/20/09 9:20 PM

Why would you not refinish and leave the natural wood? That's going to compliment everything in the apartment. Paint is, well, lazy.


Apartment Therapy New York | Good Questions: Which Color to Paint the Floors?
4/24/09 9:35 AM

Why not use it? A lot of the contemporary dishware sucks anyway.


Apartment Therapy San Francisco | Collections: For Use or Just For Show?
4/24/09 9:31 AM

Pretentious, ugly, and poorly handled. What a waste of some perfectly good chairs.


Apartment Therapy Los Angeles | Hot or Not? Noel Duigan Chairs
4/24/09 9:25 AM