New Buffet Lamp with unfortunate design

2 months ago

The ID sent a pair of lamps for me to look at for the breakfast room console, instead of the blue and white ones I have there now.

It is a perfectly nice lamp, but as I walked by I caught the design from this angle

and now this is all I can see when I look at it

Interlocking hearts! Nope, nada, no way. They’re going back!

When DH and I married, he had the bedroom furniture from his prior marriage. The first time I saw it, I howled. The headboard was interlocking hearts. He’d never seen them. I think that headboard got jettisoned within the first month we were married.

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Bunny

2 months ago

They look like atoms to me. I do not like them.

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mtnrdredux_gw
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
darn, i like them.

PS Glad to hear that the first time you saw the bed was when you were married. ; )
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bbstx
Original Author
2 months ago
Mtn, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I’d love to sell you! HAHA
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mtnrdredux_gw
2 months ago
makes me think of celtic knots
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arkansas girl
2 months ago
It's kind of ugly anyway....hearts aside....
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nutsaboutplants
2 months ago
Yes, they look like the nuclear energy sign, as Bunny says. I don’t like them (not that it matters) — the tiny base, the stem, the nuclear detail, none of it.
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IdaClaire
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
Not a fan either. I see Home Goods clearance aisle. (And I have HG lamps, but I think these are uninspired.)

I've never been enamored of heart shaped items. I've told men who have been in my life never to buy me heart-shaped jewelry, because I'm not 8 years old. 😉 (That said, I adore heart Valentines.)
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salonva
2 months ago
I guess I have no vision- I def did not see hearts and maybe if I was forced to say I saw something I could see the atom.

I like the lamp but I can imagine if you see something you don't like in it, it will not go away.

The search continues.
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eld6161
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
I don't care for them anyway.

But, hearts aside, bbstx, is this an actual style direction you want to go in? I'm not seeing it on your buffet to be honest.

Was your first reaction that you liked them or.........?
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Tina Marie
2 months ago
Not crazy about them, but I did not see hearts. Oh no to previous marriage bed!!

BB, honestly you have great taste. I think you could do this on your own.
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bbstx
Original Author
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
Oco, DGD who is 4 loves heart shaped things and they are appropriate to her age! But I fall right in with you. Not for me. Again when DH and I were dating he went to the beach with his family. His sister picked out necklace a heart shaped filigreed pendant as a gift for him to bring me. [eye roll] I still have it, I think.

In addition to now seeing hearts when I look at the lamp, I think it doesn’t have enough heft. I didn’t much like it before I saw the hearts, but the hearts were pretty much the death knell for it.

ETA:

eld, my first reaction was meh. The magpie in me liked the gold finish, but the design didn’t sing to me.

ID and I had a longish conversation earlier in the week and I asked her if she thought I ought to replace the blue and white lamps. She was being a good egg and responding to my musings.

Thanks, Tina Marie, for the compliment. Left to my own devices, I do a lot of second guessing of myself and a lot of shilly-shallying. Having an ID working with me keeps me on track and moving forward. She also brings in fresh ideas and resources that I don’t have.
Springroz
2 months ago
They are not bad....but look top heavy to me. In a house with cats, this is a concern. LOL. I don’t think I care for them with your pretty mirror.
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arcy_gw
2 months ago
"When DH and I married, he had the bedroom furniture from his prior marriage." No way not EVER--floor looong before I did that!!! I agree those lamps are to be passed.
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Peppapoodle
2 months ago
Bbstx, what about something like these?

I meant to post on your mirror thread..... love that mirror & w the plates, I think something simple would be nice. These are adjustable in height, which is nice.
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bbstx
Original Author
2 months ago
I like those, Peppa. I’m just wondering about the wisdom of buying lamps at all for that console. Sometime in the next few years, we will probably move to be closer to my daughter and DH’s son so that I will have a support system to help with DH. I am trying to only buy things that I know I’ll be able to use in a new house.
mtnrdredux_gw
2 months ago
BBstx, I'm thinking the same way. I've definitely been shopping my own home.
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dedtired
2 months ago
Now that I’ve seen the heart I can’t I see it. Before you pointed it out, I saw an atom. I’m not crazy about that lamp and would return it.
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Fori
2 months ago
Atomic. It's sweet that you see hearts. :)
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Kswl 2
2 months ago
last modified: 2 months ago
Unless you need a light source in that area I would do without lamps on the console and put something else big and statement-like on it instead. I don’t care for the lamps at all, they look like they were designed by a computer with a checklist.......marble base, check....trendy motif, check..... drum shade, check. No attention was given to the proportions of the parts. The base is too small for the lamp’s height, and the ornamental bit in the middle of the lamp is too big and weighty for that thin body.
JuneKnow
2 months ago
bbstx
Original Author
2 months ago
😂🤣😂🤣
arkansas girl
2 months ago
I think what bothers me the most of that lamp is the tiny little marble square that is way too small for the rest of the lamp.
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deegw
2 months ago
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The lamps are okay but they look skimpy and "Targety". I suspect the price to you was not going to be $39.
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Original Author
2 months ago
Deegw, try 10x that.

I’m happy to read all the comments about proportion. I also thought the proportions were off, but I doubted my intuition on that.

ID’s son is picking them up today.
deegw
2 months ago
10X? Yikes. That's a big NOPE.
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Jinx
last month
bb, I’m sorry if I’ve missed an update, but thought of you when I saw this today. Love the juxtaposition of the casual wicker on such a beautifully traditional lamp.
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1929Spanish-GW
last month
Here's the lamp shade.

https://www.chairish.com/product/2676513/maison-maison-small-scalloped-lampshade-in-seagrass
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always1stepbehind
last month
They are nice but the first thing I thought of was the intro to Big Bang Theory tv show!!
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Original Author
last month
While I love a good Big Bang reference, the lamps have gone back to the ID. When I hired her, I said I wanted to “shop my house,” because there is a possibility that DH and I will move in the next 2-3 years. The skirted console that I use in the breakfast room and that the lamps would sit on is one of the things I would jettison without a second thought. Although I really like it, I am not attached to it.