http://noluck-boston.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] noluck-boston.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2014-11-06 10:51 pm

Battle of the Starlet Bedrooms

Here are three 1929 bedrooms. Designed for three Hollywood starlets.

Which would you chose? Make some changes or love'm as is?

Lets hear about it in the comments.

Joan Crawford for Lady Pepperell Colored Sheets & Pillowcases, June 1929Doris Kenyon for Lady Pepperell Colored Sheets & Pillowcases, February 1929Lupe Velez for Lady Pepperell Colored Sheets & Pillowcases, April 1929

[identity profile] suzycat.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Joan's looks like the room of a lonely spinster who has fallen on hard times and is lucky to have a hard and unwelcoming bed in a boarding house.

[identity profile] ejia-arath03.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
First bed looks like the scene of an impending murder. Second is waaaaay to princessy for me. I'd like the third bed with the room of the second.

[identity profile] craving-vintage.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
I like the first and third ones the best. I'd probably have the first for myself. At least back in the day, very minimalist.

[identity profile] thremma.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Remove the pink. Then probably the second one, minus the rococo gold stuff, because it seems to have actual daylight in it.
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[identity profile] shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
#1 looks most like a setup i might have for myself, honestly. #2 is too frilly, and #3 is too sterile - not bad, necessarily, just very generic and hotel-y.

[identity profile] luke-russell.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, I hate ALL of them. But Crawford's is the worst.

[identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
I looked up Lupe Vélez, whom I first read about in Hollywood Babylon (http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70875.Hollywood_Babylon), and seem to have forgotten that she was rumored to have drowned in the toilet (http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2275/did-lupe-v-lez-really-drown-in-the-toilet).

[identity profile] pen-grunt.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Second--Doris Kenyon-- only because it's the one that looks the least like a Best Western in South Dakota. I'd get rid of all the frilly bed stuff though.

[identity profile] thejackaolf.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
I rather like the froof of the second one, but I would personally change out the colors, Deep reds for the pink and purples, darker richer cream for the whites and egg, with sliver replacing the gold and and charcoals replacing most of the blue and green, love the shape of the stand but not the painting, pure redwoods for the wood bits.

the first looks bare and cold, the third is more warm but still a bit...bland.
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[personal profile] misstia 2014-11-07 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
i like the 2nd but would have to change the colors of course....also the 3rd is nice too....joan's really has NO personality and i'm sure it's safe to say it has no wire hangers either! ;)

[identity profile] murakozi.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't much like any of them. I guess Joan's would be the one I dislike the least. Put something on the walls and get rid of the silly pointless bed posts and it'd be better.

Doris' is just too princess foofy for me. On top of that, it really reminds me of the 'hotel room' at the end of 2001: A Space Oddysey.

Lupe's isn't bad, I guess. Just kind of looks too much like the guest room your grandparents would have.

[identity profile] ponitacupcake.livejournal.com 2014-11-07 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Joan's is depressing. Doris' is nice but too tacky. Lupe's looks like a middling hotel room.