‘Apologies if the Bright, Vivid Colors Sear Your Eyes’

Pajamas Media ^ | Aug 27, 2010 | Ed Driscoll

[Rashputin]

That was almost two years ago, when designers and copywriters thought they saw a hot new trend to ride. You’d think by now they were ready for some Reagan-era sunny optimism, (or heck, even a little FDR-style sunny optimism) but what arrived in the mail yesterday was the greatest slab of retail Depression Porn I’ve seen yet.

In the past, Restoration Hardware had a sort of Ralph Lauren approach to furniture and design. Walking into their Palo Alto store in particular is like visiting one of Ralph’s stores: it’s the best of the mid-century past, but clean and shiny and stripped down and expensive. For hardware details and curios, it’s a great place to shop; I want to preface the rest of this post by saying I really like the place; a great deal of the accessories in my home, from the chrome numbers on the exterior of the house to the water glass holder in the master bath came from there.

I’m just not sure what got into the water supply at corporate HQ this year, though. To tie it in with another post earlier this week on journalists, Rush noted that they seem to be writing for themselves these days, not for any sort of audience — they’ve written them off by spending the last two years describing three-quarters of America as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, etc. (As I joked to my wife yesterday, do I want to watch MSNBC tonight and be called a racist, or CNN and be dubbed an Islamophobe….?)

[Global2010]

Ugley and I can’t imagine having to have that as my surrounding visual it I was ill with the stomach flu.

Dizzy, dizzy Hurl.

Is that a couch next to the toilet?

[CORedneck]

Concerning the "Blue Dot", I had to LMAO ! I bet it is the flush button for the terlet. This is a far cry from Al Bundy's bathroom whether decorated by Peggy or back to normal cold white !

[CORedneck]

LMAO ! I know it would help you drop a deuce more quickly !

next the toilet, probably a counter-top with sink, etc. I don’t why anyone wants to lounge on a couch next to the toilet ?

>Ugley and I can’t imagine having to have that as my surrounding visual it I was ill with the stomach flu.

>Dizzy, dizzy Hurl.

>Is that a couch next to the toilet?

[libertarian27]

You forgot to add the words and tag lines to the bathroom picture

The vertiginous wallpaper and painfully obtuse cabinetry left visitors more gassy than when they entered.

Filed under IBS- bathroom woes- unhappy hipsters- vertigo- wallpaper fail

LMAO