Housing Works Design on a Dime....I have to share!

Ok, I have to admit, I almost didn't want to share this....I wanted to buy everything up myself but being the unselfish blogger that I am....I have to spread the word.

I was reading my most recent edition of House Beautiful and came across an ad for the HousingWorks Design on a Dime Gala Benefit and Sale to take place in NYC from April 26th - 28th. While kicking around the idea of whether or not I'd like to attend, I found my way over to the website to see if it was worth me putting on heels for.....look 'a what I found....it is a thrift store lovers haven!

Housing Works

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  Clover Table

  No Bids: $95.00, 12d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper East
  
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  Armchair Pair

  No Bids: $400.00, 12d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper East
  
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  Side Table

  1 Bids: $70.00, 12d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper East
  
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  Beacon Hotel Mantel

  No Bids: $150.00, 12d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper East
  
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  Harp Sidetable

  No Bids: $95.00, 12d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper East
  
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  Sofa

  1 Bids: $180.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Todd Hase Armchair 2

  No Bids: $150.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Todd Hase Armchair 1

  No Bids: $150.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Etagere 2

  3 Bids: $143.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Etagere 1

  3 Bids: $143.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  A. Nathan Bar Cabinet

  9 Bids: $370.00, 8d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  J. Spectre for Century Armchair/Ottoman

  No Bids: $200.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Ocassional Table

  3 Bids: $104.50, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Slipper Chair Pair

  5 Bids: $260.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Side Chair

  1 Bids: $90.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Bar

  1 Bids: $120.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Tray Table 2

  3 Bids: $120.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Tray Table 1

  No Bids: $100.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Curio Cabinet

  1 Bids: $150.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  J. Spectre for Century Sofa Pair

  No Bids: $500.00, 7d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Side Table

  13 Bids: $165.50, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Stool

  1 Bids: $85.00, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Garden Stool

  No Bids: $90.00, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Armchair

  1 Bids: $120.00, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Theodore Alexander Coffee Table

  23 Bids: $450.00, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Brayton Love Seat

  No Bids: $120.00, 6d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Upper West
  
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  Mid-Century Armchair

  3 Bids: $132.00, 5d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Yorkville
  
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  Wakefield Side Table

  No Bids: $80.00, 5d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Yorkville
  
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  Vesle Chair Pair

  1 Bids: $130.00, 5d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Yorkville
  
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  Double Sided Desk

  3 Bids: $132.00, 5d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Yorkville
  
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  Rocking Chair

  3 Bids: $99.00, 4d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Hells Kitchen
  
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  Coffee Table 1

  No Bids: $100.00, 4d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Hells Kitchen
  
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  Coffee Table 2

  11 Bids: $262.00, 4d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Hells Kitchen
  
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  Sidetable

  1 Bids: $85.00, 4d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Hells Kitchen
  
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  Armchair Pair

  5 Bids: $120.00, 4d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Hells Kitchen
  
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  David Rowland Chair Set

  No Bids: $250.00, 1d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Coffee Table

  No Bids: $300.00, 1d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Side Table Pair

  No Bids: $100.00, 1d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Chelsea
  
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  Stickley Highboy

  13 Bids: $425.00, 0d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  
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  Armchair

  1 Bids: $120.00, 0d 2h 53m left
  Located at: Gramercy
  

I think I might die....this is too dangerous to be able to thrift shop from home!! Good news is that all proceeds benefit Housing Works and its housing services for low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. Check out the site...they also have accessories, shoes, handbags and more! It is worth a visit for sure.....and for those of you outside of NY, the smaller items can be shipped! Yeah for all! Which pieces would you be bidding on? I might have to put the heels on and make my way into NYC for this one!

Tag...you're it!

Thanks to Erin at Out on a Limb for tagging me in a blogging Q&A which has been going around the blogosphere.... Here are the answers to her questions...and then I've tagged some of  my favorite bloggers at the end. Here are the answers I came up with this sleep deprived morning thanks to the local stomach bug making its way through my home....

 First, here are the rules of tagging....

• You must post the rules.
• Answer the 11 questions that the tagger posted for you; then create 11 questions to ask the people you've tagged.
• Tag 11 people and link them in your post.
• Let them know you have tagged them.

1. What led you to blogging?

I took the plunge and started my own interior design business just a few years ago after years of being out of school. I started the blog about 8 months ago in an attempt to supplement my business presence online but since then I have realized a whole new wonderful world that blogging has opened me up to.

2. What's one goal you have for your blog?

One goal I have for my little blog is that it gets people as excited about design as I am (and occasionally gets them to chuckle). Ever since I was little, I was passionate about furniture, color and design. It just gets my heart pumping! (I'm probably the only college kid who spent their hard earned money on pottery.... Fiesta-ware was my obsession!) I know some people find decorating intimidating so if I can inspire or excite one reader about my passion for design then my blog is doing its job!

3. What's your favorite part of your home?

My bedroom- not large but very soothing....limited clutter, great colors and my Restoration Hardware bedding which makes my bed feel like a haven!

4. What would your closet or home (your choice) say about you?

My closet would say "it is time to move or take over your husband's closet because it is just too small and poorly organized"....

5. Favorite meal or comfort food?

Pizza....I'm a New Yorker.....I really don't need more than a good slice!

6. What item would you love to splurge on if money was no object?

A Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Sofa....if I knew my kids and dog would be kind to it.

7.If you had an entire day alone, with no responsibilities or obligations, how would you spend it?

First to the gym, then a massage, then in the bed with my computer, design magazines and the tv tuned to Bravo.

8.Favorite vacation destination?

Italy.....Sorrento to be exact.

9. Do you live near your hometown, or have you moved far away?

I moved about 50 miles away- still go back all the time!

10. What's your dream job, if there is such a thing?

I'm doing it....part-time designer, full-time Mom!

 

11. Complete this thought. Ten years ago...

I was a month away from marrying my soul-mate. Here we are, almost ten years later, two kids, lots of memories and (God-willing) many years ahead of us!

Ok, enough about me...Since I would love to get to know you, the readers, better- pick a question and answer it in the comment section!

Here are the eleven bloggers I tagged and below are their eleven questions. I selected some of my favorite blogs and these are some busy ladies so I understand if they don't continue the tag!

Amber at Amber Interiors
Bryn at Bryn Alexandra
Andrea at Oak Ridge Revival
Cristin at Simplified Bee
Anna at Directions Not Included
Shelli at A la Mode
Ashli at Mini Manor
Amber at Simple Dwellings
Elizabeth at The Mustard Ceiling
Rachel at Just a Touch of Gray
Carmel at Our Fifth House


1. If your life was a movie, who would play you?
2. Favorite guilty pleasure reality show?
3. One makeup product you could not live without?
4. If you could design one celebrity's home, whose would it be and why?
5. What was the biggest splurge item you ever purchased for your home?
6. If you could get any car you could afford, which would it be?
7. The best meal you can make is...
8. Favorite magazine is...
9. Favorite Smartphone App is...
10. The one thing you will always find in my fridge is....
11. Meeting the girls out for Girls Night...first drink of the night is....

Fab.com and Kartell....match made in heaven!

Have you heard of Fab? It is one of those new cool websites that sells items at a discount for only a few days and at limited quantities (these sites are popping up all over the place.) I receive their daily updates and their new items, I skim and usually I delete. Today, however, I got giddy and excited and had to start shopping....Fab.com is featuring sales on Kartell items...for those of you not familiar with Kartell, they are an Italian furniture company specializing in plastic furniture. They have amazing modern shapes and since the pieces are transparent...they don't take up much visual space. Even though I am a traditional/rustic/vintage at heart, Kartell always makes my modern heart flutter!

Kartell Table

Lou Lou Ghost Chair

Check it out...and I unlocked a coupon that anyone I refer will instantly get a $10 credit for joining Fab- it is free to join...or should I say ...you get paid $10 to join! Check them out- there are lots of other great things available, too! Quantities are limited so don't waste time!

Click here!

Click here to join and receive $10:    http://fab.com/xck17e
PS- I have received no incentive to share Fab with you....I'm just nice:)

What is up with this chair?

I first laid eyes on this chair in the Restoration Hardware catalog...I thought is was unique...quite divine and a little odd....perhaps it reminded me of myself. But many of my clients at the time were traditional in taste and I thought they would throw their Ethan Allen wing back at me if I even suggested this chair. In design world it is called a dome chair...although I like to think of it as an over-achieving, type A wing chair. (insert laugh here)

And now, I have seen it creeping into magazines and even television shows. I feel like I am playing Where's Waldo with this chair....

Restoration Hardware

Here it is trying to steal the photo in House Beautiful in a lovely green shade...no worries...it made it on the cover of House Beautiful for March 2012.

House Beautiful

The always stylish Layla Grace has its own version of the Dome Chair:

Layla Grace Dome Chair

And here is one that I found on Houzz sold by High Fashion Home

eclectic chairs design by houston furniture and accessories High Fashion Home

And if any of you watch the hilarious sitcom Rules of Engagement (which, btw, was that canceled? Hasn't been on in a long time...boohoo). Anyway, there is an episode where Audrey buys this dome chair and hates it when she gets it home but won't admit it to her husband Jeff...very funny marriage stuff...you can check the episode out right here.  http://www.tv.com/shows/rules-of-engagement/the-chair-1558375/

The Chair episode

Have you seen this chair creeping into your design reads? What is the vote....yay or nay? I kind of like it but don't quite have a place for it yet.....