Contest entry - 70's

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Interior Design
1977

Contest Entry,

The last one was ugly. This one is nice.

Comments

[mschaos.livejournal.com]

this type of furniture is what I grew up with and still love. Teak and clean lines

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

YES
Love what we used to call "Danish Modern". To me, clean lines, good wood, and fine craftsmanship can never go out of style.

[six-dollar-baby.livejournal.com]

My in-laws have two of these in their living room, i love them.

Yes

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I like this. I have something a bit like it, except it's made of particle board and fake wood stickery, and is sagging terribly. If I had a proper set of wood shelving, they'd probably look like this. But with every space filled with books.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Well, there are three things you could do, in order of decreasing ambition:

Go to your neighborhood hardware supply store, Home Depot or the like, and buy real wood, enough to

• Recreate the entire cabinet, using the original veneered particle-board version for a pattern

• Have the wood cut to size to replace the horizontal shelves

• Use short lengths as center pylons to shore up the sagging shelves. Plus, turn 'em over so they flatten out again!

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have a rosewood one of these that was my parents' - they both have moved on, furniture-wise, and gave me all the mid-century stuff, which was fine with me! It's marked Danish, but we don't know for sure what maker it is. I only have two of the three bays up right now because I didn't have a wall long enough to put the whole massive thing on and I needed to have another upright made to use the third bay on another wall, which is the bar and stereo cabinet section. Mine is full of mid-century ceramics and cat figurines on the top and vintage table linens on the bottom. One of the nice things about it is that my mom kept bayberry candles in it for so many years that when I open it, it still smells like Christmas. :)

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

I look at this, I think one word:

“Dust.”

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

It's a bit veneer-y for my tastes, but I could live with it. Not bad for 70s.

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

The teevee is placed awfully low.........

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

That is a perceptive observation. The only explanation I can suggest is that even with solid-state electronics, televisions were outrageously heavy - those cathode-ray tubes were thick glass! - and it would be neither safe nor wise to place an object that massive higher up on furniture with so narrow a base, which already projects cabinets and drop-down shelves forward! Picture that unbalancing and toppling forward onto a child! (Or simply smashing face-forward onto the floor. What a mess!)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Great for kids lying on the floor, though! I remember watching a LOT of teevee that way ;p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have something very like that (bought second-hand) and like it a lot. Mine's considerably paler though.