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Love This Bed!

We are digging this bed from Noir Trading. It's so unusual, don't you think? Upholstered in burlap, It's available in queen, ca king & eastern king.

We don't have pricing info yet but if you need help with it info drop us a line.

Where Did You Get That? Green Nighstand

JWe were researching ideas for a client's baby room and came accross this picture from Elle Decor.

Image via Elle Decor

Don't you love the fact that it's not all pink? If you like the green nightstand, you can find them at Bungalow 5. In addition to green, it comes in pink, red, white, beige and black as well. Produc specifications and pricing info can be found here.

Where Did You Get That? Geometric Wallpaper in 9 by Design

Do you watch 9 by Design on Bravo? It's on Tuesday night and it's about a couple in New York with 6 or 7 kids and their design business. They are self-taught designers making a living by fixing houses for other people and flipping houses themselves.

Anyway, if you watch the show you'll see that the show's opening has a geometric wallpaper background that is also used in their living room (in purple!).

If you like that pattern, you can find it at Cole & Sons Wallpaper. It's called Hick's Hexagon and comes a few colorways.

To read more about Sixx Design, click here.

Where Did You Get That? Graphic Wallpaper

We saw this picture via Coco + Kelly today when were trying to do everything possible to procastinate working. You see, when you run your own business there is no such thing as a day off!

But we shouldn't complain. We love, love working for ourselves.

Anway, if you like the wallpaper shown here (it's very bold and dramatic in person), you can find it at Cole & Sons wallpaper. The pattern number is 77/1102-CS and it comes in three colorways.

Beautiful Antique Reproductions from Eloquence Inc.

We don't see new vendors very often in the last few years. We imagine starting any new business, and especially home furnishing business, is tough. This is why we were so happy to see a new one that we really like at the High Point show -- Eloquence Inc.

Based out of Santa Monica, CA, this company makes antique reproductions that are really, really pretty. It's the kind of furniture that you want to have if you were living in, say, an Ialian villa or something. Although in Los Angeles, where we have many Spanish Mediteranean homes that were built in the 1920s, these would look amazing as well.

Here are some samples:

To see the complete line, visit the company's web site.

So pretty...

We saw this picture from Vanity Fair today and we just love it. It's under the slide shows titled "Oscar Moms". The picture is of a young Audrey Hepburn pushing a baby carriage (were baby carriages this big in the sixties?).

We also just finished watching a couple of episodes of the "Real Housewives" series and thought about the contrast of how the women look there vs here. Enough with the Botox, hair extensions, bad French manicures!

Doesn't Hepburn look so beautifully natural?

Image courtesy of Vanity Fair

Small Businesses Are People Too...

A friend of ours who runs a small drapery wrote us an email to vent about a particularly nasty client of his. The woman was referred to him by a friend. She insisted on meeting early in the morning, so to get to her house at 10am in LA traffic, my friend has to leave his office at 8am. He spent a couple of hours the night before picking out fabrics for her. Once he got there, she proceeded to tell him that she only wants to have someone measure the windows for her so that she can buy the window treatment over the Internet. Mind you, she wants to have the measurement done for free!

Another friend of ours owns a restaurant in San Francisco. We don't know if you know, but this is a particularly trying time for the restaurant business. Our friend is struggling to survive. At any rate, there was this group of four young guys. They ordered a noodle dish and the dish had a tiny thread (that was used to tie the dry noodle together). My friend apologized and made a new one. When the check came, they demanded that the whole meal, including 2-3 bottles of wine, be comped! My friend explained that that is not possible, but she would comp them for the appetizers. They proceeded to stomp off and left the waitress no tip. Then wrote a Yelp review about it.

One recent customer of ours ordered $4000 worth of merchandise, then proceeded to cancel/return/refuse 80% of them, leaving us with restocking fee, shipping fee and opened merchandise that we now have to salvage.

Which leads us to the question, is common decency dead? Do people feel that merchants exists to be abused and used? Is common courtesy only goes one way-from the merchant to customers but not the other way around?

If a customer experiences bad service, and we have many times ourselves, there are many outlets they can vent to.

Yet if a merchant gets used/abused like this, all we can do is vent privately. Yet the same customers will go elsewhere and repeat this deplorable attitute to other businesses. Most small businesses that we know, especially retail/restaurants are working fingers to the bone to survive day to day. Having this type of customers just kill us.

We wish sometime that people understand that businesses are people too.

PS We do have a lot of many good and amazing customers that we just love. To them, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.