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On The Subject of Being Different

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ESQASArsoWM?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></div><br />Remember this interview?  She talks about her need to be different.  I was a <em>huge</em> Gwen Stefani fan in the 90s, because I was so invested in the concept of individuality and originality.  I'm really happy I didn't have a digital camera 10-15 years ago because I'd feel obliged to show you the inventive outfits I wore.  (A friend may or may not have dressed up like me for Halloween).  I wanted so much to be unusual and I still<em> </em>get a thrill when I can be a teeny tiny bit different.  <br /><br />Lime green car?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-evidence-of-painting-charlie.html">Check</a>.  Billy Buttons are everywhere?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/diy-felted-wool-billy-buttons.html">I'll make some</a>, thank you very much.  One of a kind headboard?  <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/vicarious-diy-headboard.html">Of Course.</a>  I was thinking about this as I examined the accessories I added to my nightstand: both vintage (and stolen from other rooms).  You can't easily duplicate anything from <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/bedroom-update.html">our bedroom</a> except the white West Elm bedding and the lamps (which <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_McGrath">Blake McGrath</a> has.  I saw them when he was on MTV Cribs.  My lamps are famous.)  And I feel a little tingly about that - the being different, not the famousness of the lamps.  Is that weird?  <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4NfWd0CeDnZ7rGSVKybx_dVrhtXMnE5iUsyt608TwGvaZ6Rg38jHTm6n_40G19BSlfZJ-_pbpHXFN7mzzHh60oDTV7GqRyT8BJ_xQ3aHxgGByamEPCzKIU1bh2qEBWMwECyKFde6QokT/s1600/008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4NfWd0CeDnZ7rGSVKybx_dVrhtXMnE5iUsyt608TwGvaZ6Rg38jHTm6n_40G19BSlfZJ-_pbpHXFN7mzzHh60oDTV7GqRyT8BJ_xQ3aHxgGByamEPCzKIU1bh2qEBWMwECyKFde6QokT/s640/008.JPG" t8="true" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mine.</td></tr></tbody></table><br />Is being different, original or one of a kind important to you?  Is that why vintage is so hot right now?

On The Subject of Being Different

Remember this interview? She talks about her need to be different. I was a huge Gwen Stefani fan in the 90s, because I was so invested in...

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Location, Location, Location

<a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-living-room-chair.html">Moving the chair</a> from the office into the living room kick started a chain reaction of furniture rearrangement.  I had been bothered by the guest room teak chair/side table combo for awhile because the two pieces were so dissimilar in wood tone and style, but not dissimilar enough to work.  With the office chair moved downstairs, I relocated its accompanying black metal glass topped table (a wedding present my grandma received in the 1950s) to the guest room and love how it looks in there.  The splash of black adds the right amount of tension, and is a common element in every room of the house.  <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP5YSbRBIFif4v0rwFiMiNJgAhdZWxyWWE35w-EwPjyKBAQ-0N4NPfJA_pHlMph9v8x_G7neBgxXULlCyLNbkNIUCtzNfuawmTb2_wkXb-XZmvw2pbJsjK6VSbnv95o8Qu77v4K9hmOFj/s1600/012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqP5YSbRBIFif4v0rwFiMiNJgAhdZWxyWWE35w-EwPjyKBAQ-0N4NPfJA_pHlMph9v8x_G7neBgxXULlCyLNbkNIUCtzNfuawmTb2_wkXb-XZmvw2pbJsjK6VSbnv95o8Qu77v4K9hmOFj/s640/012.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yep - those heaters will be painted.  Eventually.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVg5ZnYgdDraWgbJJ5RaEpdmR043NfqLxBPnVgPgqRixKSgwPaiYPEdYAnU_ibihqsdp1x_V7R1p8NEDhL-4W0gVzG72BlXwYbSiKG2EWh2YeHkiho5IJGON-xmLqAy7GIOjU7HpfG4Xv_/s1600/165.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVg5ZnYgdDraWgbJJ5RaEpdmR043NfqLxBPnVgPgqRixKSgwPaiYPEdYAnU_ibihqsdp1x_V7R1p8NEDhL-4W0gVzG72BlXwYbSiKG2EWh2YeHkiho5IJGON-xmLqAy7GIOjU7HpfG4Xv_/s640/165.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlM7qN8Kk13xj2lFq6IacEjSqnBlpeHeRQ6CFKbheHNg4tauC1zvF0lPJ_5AT48KU8mlN6bI2hfLyHuzL1AcYywfBqvYU4bxmQGlGw1dLzHiSLCqPZzwv-NzOSXaixQaC-5wGY7-fJbYd/s1600/009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlM7qN8Kk13xj2lFq6IacEjSqnBlpeHeRQ6CFKbheHNg4tauC1zvF0lPJ_5AT48KU8mlN6bI2hfLyHuzL1AcYywfBqvYU4bxmQGlGw1dLzHiSLCqPZzwv-NzOSXaixQaC-5wGY7-fJbYd/s640/009.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><strong>The table + teak table combo </strong>(click <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/01/theres-new-chair-in-there.html">here</a> for more photos)<strong>:</strong><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiX3FQaX1Pn8ZyJg_GstPJC04UJqIz5n3xOJ-6v5hh0Eg8b_afOHux1C3n55Sds4MZnlUAGHRPTxHIk_KMqMIvbx77wPr19XnBj4bguW7l4TfZMBYhNljE0K3mV3kUK6SQpuVe5fGdlxI/s1600/122.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiX3FQaX1Pn8ZyJg_GstPJC04UJqIz5n3xOJ-6v5hh0Eg8b_afOHux1C3n55Sds4MZnlUAGHRPTxHIk_KMqMIvbx77wPr19XnBj4bguW7l4TfZMBYhNljE0K3mV3kUK6SQpuVe5fGdlxI/s640/122.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before - teak table + prints on wall have since been replaced</td></tr></tbody></table><br />You might have already spotted the change in my post about my <a href="http://dans-le-townhouse.blogspot.com/2011/05/diy-needle-felted-art.html">DIY'd Needled Felted Abstracts</a>.  This photo gave it away:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg001DU0y6Y2XBbb-SQczrGKfvwXDcC5TdyqZpoPxelwLbA0SDeBo1zQ4UzkuJS7wrD0p9bdHdkofCAat4IB6xiq60VwaATZuCQvrj1docX2X3V0LyEeg2F-G42hIQhwM4pU9qLcJYyoXEk/s1600/176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" j8="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg001DU0y6Y2XBbb-SQczrGKfvwXDcC5TdyqZpoPxelwLbA0SDeBo1zQ4UzkuJS7wrD0p9bdHdkofCAat4IB6xiq60VwaATZuCQvrj1docX2X3V0LyEeg2F-G42hIQhwM4pU9qLcJYyoXEk/s640/176.JPG" width="480" /></a></div>

Location, Location, Location

Moving the chair from the office into the living room kick started a chain reaction of furniture rearrangement. I had been bothered by the...