Round Top Roundup: Spring 2010

Hot on the heels of SXSW comes another Texas sized festival -- the Round Top antiques fair. Neither Karly nor I were sure we could make it this year, but hooray! Fortune prevailed. On Saturday morning we said good bye to the menfolk (who were not disappointed in the slightest about being left behind), grabbed our pal Diana, gorged ourselves on sugary cream cheese kolaches, and then headed out in search of treasure.

After hours and hours of weaving from booth to booth, Karly and I both scored a few items, but nothing big this year. Sadly, Diana went home empty handed, which is oddly easy to do at Round Top. There is so much stuff there that it's easy to get glazed over and just shut down. I'm still mighty tired from all the walking in the heat, so this post is gonna be short on words, but no need to worry: I went a little berzerker with the old point and shoot this year, so it will be crazy long on images. Enjoy!

Stuff I almost bought:

Pair of what look to be Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates chairs upholstered in houndstooth fabric for $375. Cool, but pricey, and I have no place for them right now.

Brass swan faucet that Karly spied for $75, and large painting for $200. I may kick myself for not getting that faucet, but I just don't have a place for it right now, plus it needs refinishing. The painting was done in 1930 and has an awesome old money feel, but it was damaged and the douchey seller wouldn't come down. His loss.

Stuff we bought:

Huge revolutionary drummer boy painting for Ike's room for $45. SCORE!

Karly got these Seven Deadly Sins dessert plates for practically nothing.

I also bought a big white globe swag lamp for over the kitchen sink, but I forgot to take a picture of it. Hopefully The Hunny can wire it up soon and I'll capture it in situ, along with my "new" shelves that I've been threatening to post for months.

Here we are near the end of the day. Karly has on her sessy face, and I look like a kid that got caught playing with daddy's creepy Kaiser hat. We had an awesome time, but I am glad to be at home on the couch, in the air conditioning.

Happy Monday, dudes!

Things I'm Looking Forward To

Other than the eminent guest bathroom remodel that we discussed yesterday, there are a few things on the horizon that have my heart going pitter pat.  Let's get right to this

1. Bravo's new show 9 by Design.  Ok, so the name is as cheesy as it could possibly be but I'm looking forward to watching this family of, yes, nine, run around Manhattan buying up vacant lots and old pawn shops to build and design new spaces.  I flipped through the couple's design site and, sure a few of the spaces are a little cheesy now, but keeping in mind that they are a few years old, they were spot on at the time of the build.  I watched Brovo's 30 minute preview dealie-dad a few weeks ago and all I can say is that they were putting in custom painted wood floors from some artist in the Netherlands, so this is not a show I will be mad at.

2. Metallic edible food spray.  Now I can make the 5 foot, 10 tiered gold layer cake of my dreams.  Enough said.

3.  Round Top.  I was actually pretty sure that I wasn't going to be able to make the Round Top Flea Market this time around due to a hellish work schedule and a few different travel plans, but, luckily, I've carved out some time at the last minute and will be cruising the fields and eating BBQ sandwiches THIS WEEKEND.  Holla!

Potties Part 1: Wood in the Bathroom

I hate to break it to you but, despite the title of today's post, we will not be showing any X-rated decor, instead I'll be focusing on real wood from real trees and how sometimes it's found (totally and completely behaving itself) in the bathroom. Ok, backing up:  the hubs and I are finally starting to talk seriously about redoing this builder-grade-crap-pile of a guest bathroom we've been living with for the last 2 years, which is throwing me into an indecisive whirlwind of overwhelming choices.  Did I ever mention that I'm bad with decisions?  I am.  Anyway, I was going to line up a bunch of different pictures of  bathrooms with various tile choices and force you all to tell me which was best when I realized that there are a TON of bathrooms out there with wood floors.  So many, in fact, that I decided the topic deserved it's own post.

I've looked at this picture a million times (it's in my bathroom file but I'm not sure why) and I just today realized it had wood floors.  So I'm indecisive and unobservant.  Great.  Anyway, I thought to mineself: self!  what the hell?  Aren't those floors going to warp.  I thought wood floors only came in bathrooms that looked like this:

Wood floors here are no surprise, and yes, they are lovely.  They seem to be in good shape so I don't know why they wouldn't work equally well in a modern bath.  Apparently, other homeowners share this thought:

I also came across a few painted wood floors in bathrooms:

But the award for my absolute favorite use of wood (floors) in the bathroom goes to this little gem.  The view doesn't hurt.

What do you guys think?  Would you ever lay wood floors in a bathroom?