i can't find the old WANT thred (warning; this is about shower curtains)

they are both $30 though which seems like a LOT for a shower curtain

Depends! I bought a $30 shower curtain mebbe 7 years ago but it's the heavy vinyl kind and endlessly cleanable without losing awesomeness (it's clear with silver glitter all throughout). You have to commit to cleaning it, though, not throwing away when it gets ganky.

I saw butterflies hatching at the Seattle Science Center last week.

both of those curtains look awesome. link?

slocki they're here:
http://simplememoryart.com/shop.html

it says that they have them at the brooklyn museum store! how convenient! i will check them out today.

Think about getting the curtain rings with little beads on them, so they roll better -- it will mean less pulling on the curtain/less stress on the vinyl at the holes.

ooh the weather and solar system ones are sweet.

i love weather!

I may get those.

i just bought the official mta nyc subway map shower curtain. it's terrific bathroom reading.

I cant have shower curtains cause I have a glass shower door thing, but suddenly I am tempted to go get glass paint and paint shit all over my shower door. What would rock?

awesome, jody. i wonder if i had that i would come up with awesome stealth time-saving routes to places, since i often have epiphanies in the shower.

theresa, it doesnt work

it kinda does look like it belongs in a freshman dorm, linds
perhaps i can interest you in a van gogh / klimt / dali shower curtain instead? ;p

laurel, did the life cycle of the butterfly curtain look nice in person? i didn't make it to the museum yesterday but it looks v. v. pretty and i think i may order it.

Oh, I don't mean that I saw the shower curtain, I mean that I saw actual butterflies hatching out of coccoons in a butterfly house. :) Sorry that is less helpful.

my shower curtain is kind of ugly. laurel has seen it.

i thought laurel was going to say that actual butterflies hatched from her shower curtain.

My roommate is bug-phobic and would kill me.

30 dollars is too much for shower curtains best left in your first apt.

Be nice.

HAY GUISE I JUST FOUND THE MOST AWSUM POSTER FOR MY ROOM

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/89091033_1be6fd6426.jpg

i think the tree/butterfly one is a nice design. it would make me happy to have a tree in my bathroom! the writing on it may be too busy though. or maybe it is not acceptable to have shower curtains intended for children as a 28 year old and i should just get a boring one. hmmm.

target had only hideous ones though.

maybe a "nice" one rather than "boring". (then again the nice one i had was also hideous and insane...it lasted too long. i currently have boring one, but like most of my apt, im slowly taking care of these issues)

nice ones - where to find?

SHOWER CURTAIN IDEAS, PATENTS PENDINGS

* Shower curtain smells like strawberries or roses or THE OCEAN whenever water hits it.

* Shower curtain glows in the dark.

* Shower curtain works like old Hypercolor shirts, changing color when wet or touched. Play on it like those new Microsoft touchscreens.

* Shower curtain with waterproof iPod pocket. (Waterproof hairnet sold separately.)

* Shower curtain with girls (or guys) that take their tops off when it gets warm, like novelty inkpens and shot glasses.

abc? hmm, good question...lemme get back to you on that.

Target.com does have some v appealing prints but I can't tell the quality from here and they are still probably what Ben would consider unsophisticated -- pretty much anything other than white or clear or white-on-clear or something v minimalist is going to be silly and "young" in some way. I say as long as it lets light through and you like it, go nuts.

The light thing is big for me, I hate solid ones that block and/or discolor the light in the shower (or the rest of the room).

the tiles in my bathroom are ugly black fake marble so no matter how sophisticated i get it's still gonna look bad. and the bathroom's small, so i want something somewhat transparent but also colorful and bright.

There was a fancy home store in Soho years ago that always had nifty minimalist house decor stuff and design-award stuff but of course in those days I could barely find the same store twice, I was always getting so lost, so I don't remember where it was, and don't remember the name. So uh there. But they had terrific heavy vinyl shower curtains and that's where I got mine.

Now we have a lighter, cheaper one from Target with a silly "retro" print on it (not my choice) but admittedly it is hard to find an outdoor space big enough to properly scrub a dirty shower curtain so replacing it is sometimes easier.

hmm, that sounds like it could have been one of the places on wooster st? or mxypxlxyx or whatever that place is called...

Now look what you've done, I've been looking for fancy designer bath stuff and have stumbled onto J Adler dinnerware with orange dots and OMGOMG NOM NOM NOM

link!

i like looking at the fancy stuff, but then end up buying stuff at stoop sales/dollar stores. i got a nice table yesterday for $25 though!

I think it might actually have been on Wooster after all, bell.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.wrapables.com/images/product/A53349.jpg

those are awesome! all my kitchen stuff = my mom's castoffs

i want shower curtains that go all the way down, to the floor of my bathroom. how am i supposed to know the fucking inches. 72 should be enough for any shower.

what Ben would consider unsophisticated

i never said unsofisticated...trust me, my 1st like 6 apt were full of fun and bad ideas...just, you know we get older, we can intensify our aesthitcs...the problem always being we have to take the apt we can aford. and in order to make them that way, the gddmned ownders buy the ugliest, cheapest materials...listen, yr a landlord, with a cheap building in an eh neighborhood. dot get into thinking youre gonna fucking fill the place wth design feature unless you wanna spend decent money. just use decent, simple shit, that wont make us look like striving trash.

god, im becoming a real snob again.

lndsy, buy whatever makes you happy...

yeah i hate the 72 inch shit! esp when the rod is bolted into the wall and you can't adjust it! last apt. i actually went and bought another shower rod so it could be lower and water wouldn't leak everywhere.
xpost

http://w2products.com/images/products/Pyramid4web.jpg

^ want

http://w2products.com/products.builder/pantone.html

Not cheap, not in stock on the website, and not in stock at the nearest retailer to me listed on their website. Way to go.

they'll be wicked cheap soon

because yuppies love that stuff

TARGET

designer mugs based on tools used by designers buhhhhh

it is a fetish. let's sell light tables as coffee tables.

or better yet, let's market red light bulbs and photo developer 'room odorizer' to people who want to give their bathroom that 'darkroom' feel

i would so wear a t-shirt about fonts

actually want this but cba to figure out what it says ^_^
http://www.okaycoolmix.de/daten/new/FM-4.jpg

Lucky guy. Have you digitized it?

i might need those pantone mugs around december...damn

Making one of them "process yellow" is still a lame-o rip-off. IF WE COULD PRINT IT IN 4/C, WE WOULDN'T NEED PANTONE. AND IT WOULD BE CHEAPER, TOO, YOU STUPID FUCKS.

options, nigga

i don't have a way to digitize vinyl (or tapes for that matter).

re: usb tape deck

YOU GUYS EVER HEAR OF LINE IN?

the line in on my computer doesn't work, and i don't have a working tape deck either.

jw we are talking retro lookin things with modern usb situations
the line-in practicality talk can't stand up to that
my stereo does have a tape deck though (just one)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/219/462250474_610a95f332_o.jpg
any of these rugs other than top right/bottom right ones (esp lower left one with the tiger)

or leopard i mean
or this onehttp://angelaadams.com/images/01800_th.jpg

or floors like this
http://nymag.com/homedesign/greatrooms/greatroom070820_560.jpg

omg i cannot decide which rug they are all so awesome (but yes you are right abt omiting those 2 as much as i like real-life rainbows) - where are they from? how are they possible?
i wld prob get the middle left

that picture gives me vertigo.

Yes, I wd also get middle left. I am enthralled by the "Lines LINES L!I!N!E!S!" rug too but prob couldn't life with it/furnish around it.

rrrobyn - those are from angela adams. except they are from her fancy "collection" line that costs ungodly amounts of money and are all specialty made. they had them at her store in portland (disclosure - my mom works there) and they are gorgeousss but cost tens of thousands of dollars. my mom's discount doesn't really make much of a dent getting me closer to having one, sadly!

the stripey floor is by jim lambie and all made of tape!

i was just about to google who that artist was and proclaim that ikea stole his idea, lol

the thing is, his work looks amazing installed in a gallery. in your home? if you're rich enough to have a hardly ever used artsy parlor room to entertain guests, it would look great. otherwise, in your everyday living room in might get to be a bit too much.

i don't think i could deal with a bad mayan ayahuasca trip looking up at me every morning as i eat my rice krispies

http://www.posterwire.com/wp-content/images/vertigo.jpg

me on the floor every morning if that were my floor

the time i tore a bunch of ligaments in my foot when i was young+dumb i got stuck in total vertigo pose on my livingroom floor for an hour

there was hangover involved
it was crazy - i remember it all vividly

I have orange pumice soap in my kitchen as the handsoap. BECAUSE ITS MY FUCKING HOUSE THAT'S WHY

SWEET ORANGE PUMINCE SAOP REVOLUTION

(awesome on having own new place!)

TOILET WITH DOOR OPEN FOR FIRST TIME IN LIFE GUYS!! WAU

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M7QN_sW9T4g

i am laughing at so many things about that right now

"the clutter of showerheads"

"this house is so big"

"we are jerks with giant ugly houses with paved backyards and gadgets we paid too much for"

david koh1er looks exactly like david koh1er should look though

stainless steel - so overdone and institutional. it just makes me think of exciting new innovations in prison shower technology. remote controls for everyone yaay!

rrrobyn otm but i still want that shower.

oh yeah i still think it is a neat shower to the extent maybe that if i was going out with someone who had that shower i would probably go out with that person for slightly longer than i knew was right just so i could have a high-tech shower a few more times

lol gilded cage
wonder what butt fuckin egypt depresso nowhere exurb those sad loonies live out in
those shower spouts in the wall look like some kind of bad prop that causes dr who to have to use his sonic screwdriver to escape

Stop mocking and help those people, they've obviously fallen into a disused quarry and their spindly, pallid limbs won't let them climb out. They're forced to burn lignin-bearing cellulose life forms for warmth! Someone, please....

it would be fun to reprogram your family members' genital-height shower tiles to blast arctic freezewater all over their scrots & vages

oh man last time i was home in maine, we went and visited some family friends who have been "fortunate" over the years and just built their dream house. they have all this automated bullshit; remote controls in every room, piped in stereo, window blinds & showers controlled by remote. they also included rooms for their "grandkids" even though neither of their adult children are married/engaged?! eek.

the coolest shower they had though has a floor made of pebbles. i bet it feels neat to stand on.

this thread makes me sad that i didn't get the butterfly/frog curtain, just some tasteful crinkly blue one. i heeded ben's advice.

if i were rich i would pimp out my bathroom, my kitchen ... and that's really it. maybe i'd get an expensive couch and refuse to let guests sit on it. all the 'automation of the future' crap seems very epcot and tacky, like black mirrors and neon tiles ca. '87 -- i think it will age badly and end up costing an awful lot in maintenance.

they did it pretty tastefully, i have to admit, it is really not mcmansiony at all and has a beautiful view. though, thanks to overlooking a tidal inlet, they get some serious mudflat sulfur smells which apparently they tried to call the cops/EPA about? welcome to the world of decomposing marine life, lol!

i do the like the "central vacuum system"

meet george jetson

jane, his wife

his boy elroy

that dog

the daughter with old people hair

i would love black mirrors and neon tile! i think i'll have a special 80s room in my giant, custom-built dream home decorated with stuff like that (and a bunch of Nagel prints, of course).

Ohh those river rock pebble mats/tiles are super neato. I like them too.

Except they make me sad for riverbanks somewhere that are being systematically denuded to become someone's floor (gotta match the Ann Sacks tile, natch).

periodic table shower curtain made an appearance in Big Bang Theory sitcom on monday

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/fc_big.jpg

rem, right on with the genital blast...they love the house now, wait til they decide to reverse pops vasectomy and spawn a lil yupster. It'll be like the beginning of The Illustrated Man

http://www.peopleandwildlife.org.uk/newsimages/Richard%20Sobol%20AP.jpg