Oh, those colors! The playful elegance of the designs! The whimsical charm!
Truly, I haven’t been this excited about a new home furnishings site in quite a while — but Stray Dog Designs makes me want to rip out everything in the house (except maybe for a few heirlooms and objects with sentimental value) and start decorating all over again from scratch!
This site is a great source of decorating inspiration, too, even if you’re not in a place to do a whole lot of serious furniture shopping right now. (Might not hurt to have a little word with Santa Claus, though!)
On top of the wonderful whimsy of the products here, I very much like the company philosophy as expressed in the quirky Stray Dogma statement, which says in part:
We design home decor that says, “Sit. Stay.”…Your home isn’t your castle. Castles are cold and forbidding. Your home is family…
You have a distinct personality. Shouldn’t your rooms?
Artists think differently. Different is good. Cookie cutters are for cookies, not furniture.
Small companies and hand made objects matter… People should be paid a fair, living wages, wherever they live, whatever they do. A company that gives back grows a soul…
The furnishings, ornaments, and accessories are interesting and different — I think it’s fair to call them “unique” (a word that’s been badly abused and devalued in recent years, by the way) — and above all, happy. Isn’t that what we want most for the place that we live?
Let’s tag this, oh, Home Decor | Fair Trade.
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Wholesale Amish Furniture 10.15.06 at 1:18 am
Their lamps are pretty good. I like the vibrancy of the colors htey use. Doing up my new place right now. So any further info on good places to buy are most welcome. Thanks
Carol
domestika 10.15.06 at 2:17 am
I find myself really attracted to vibrant colours - not necessarily bright colours, not all the time, but those that have a certain clarity. Not a huge fan of taupe, you might say!
Jen