Late Spring Cleaning? Add Some Urban Chic to Your Decor
For once, my magazine “research” has done me some good! While perusing Lucky Magazine, I found an awesome handmade deal in the $15 and Under section.
Yes, you heard me right: handmade and fifteen bucks or less.
The loot I found is this: hand-designed pillar candles, named and designed for specific streets New York City, by RE-SURFACE.
I love the bright colors mixed with the classic pillar candle and dirty, urban street style. And at only $15 per candle (can I mention, yet again, that they’re handmade?) they’re a cheap way to buy an awesome US designer, either online, or at one of their retail locations. (If you’ve got more cash, I suggest you check out RE-SURFACE’s More-Light shade in the Kent and Jewel patterns, which retail for $350.)
Finding RE-SURFACE got me itching for other cheap, US-made urban decor…with some classic touches, of course. Here are a few of my finds – all designed in the US, of course.
This Power Line Design is hand-painted on lots of kitchen and living items by soule, a Seattle Etsy designer. I love the simplicity of it, and not only is it dishwasher and food safe, it’s clean-looking enough to last for years without you getting sick of it. My personal favorite, however, is this Gas Mask Plate, which wouldn’t stand the test of aesthetic time, but is pretty cool, nonetheless.
One of her newer prints, Christina Entcheva’s Compilation I has street style without being too extreme. I’ve talked about Christina’s work before (even had a giveaway) and since then she’s done more shows and printed on more new mediums than I can keep up with. Follow her blog for more new designs and updates on her events.
If you’ve got a small place with wall space to spare, this vinyl decal by Tasty Suite will add some texture to your room without taking up space. It goes perfect with raw materials like brick and stone – and unfinished basements like mine (ahem…).
If growing up in Seattle has taught me one thing, it’s that urban living and dogs go together. Just take neighborhoods like Ballard and Fremont, which are so dog-friendly that in many cases, pups have their own gourmet treat shops and are welcome in bars. Living with a dog, though, can be less than “urban chic,” which is why I’m covetting one of these utilitarian dog beds by Bow Wow Beds. They’re one of the few designers that makes a size big enough for my pup, who weighs in at almost 140 lbs., and they’ve got lots of different options to personalize your order.
Lastly, let’s get back to the graffiti:
The prints above ($15) and below ($8) are examples of why I like street art. People think that graffiti is just a tag, without symbolism or value – they think it’s trash. But true street art has a depth of emotion that rivals some of the best traditional paintings, that gives that emotion to the public without asking for anything in return. Sometimes, it evokes such a strong feeling that we see words scratched out over top of graffiti – like passersby just couldn’t help themselves, like they had to tell us just what all of this color and curvature means in their cement-filled world.
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I love the graffiti art! Somehow, beautiful graffiti (and other non-graffiti-style art) are showing up covering the drab, dull boards hiding all the construction in my city. It makes me so happy, much like I expect these prints to do.
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very cool stuff, love the dog bed! what kind of dog do you have?
ps hello!
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Becky: He’s a bullmastiff. What about yours?
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