Software
Houzz Logo Print
gw_oakley

That random impulse buy accent decor...

3 years ago

...still without a home. Surely you have something similar and have no idea where to put it?


This is mine and I know you've seen it in some of my pictures all taken in a different place. Right now it's in the guest room and out of the way, but I still love it and don't know what to do with it, plus it matches the LR.


Hand painted meditation table/chowki from India, bottom left.


If you have a random something you don't know what to do with, I'd love to see a photo.




Comments (20)

  • 3 years ago

    @HU-787167202 take a walk or something. A long one.


    Oakley so much of my stuff is just random I would not know where to start! I love that little table and would be looking for a place where I'd see it often - maybe you do see it often there?

  • 3 years ago

    LOL at Hu's post, I was able to see it. Is H also A?

    I've set a plant on the table, I've set the table on top of another table, and I still don't know where to put it. I bought it years ago before I added blue to the room because I loved the colors. It's the one random piece of decor that hasn't found a home.

  • 3 years ago

    I would put it on my kitchen island and add my pots of herbs on top of it.

  • 3 years ago

    I don't think H is A. A isn't so manly (check other posts).


    I like that table and I would have brought it home too. It goes on my raised hearth, by the way. 😁

  • 3 years ago

    Fori, that's an idea. Our hearth isn't raised but we have a rock bench next to it. Never thought of that.


    Jilly, do you know where the jug is from? How did both you and your dad end up with the same one? I like it.


    Fun, I thought about putting it in the utility room where I have some plants but I'd ruin it somehow in the light or drips of water.

  • 3 years ago

    That's two post by H today I've missed before they were removed. :-/


    Oakley, is there a table, desk our counter you can put it on?

  • 3 years ago

    Oak, a local place in town was selling them … I bought one, and my dad liked it so much he bought one, too. His is in an awesome custom hand-carved western style hutch. Mine is on the floor. 😂

  • 3 years ago

    I think it's weird that I decided where I was going to put it even though I'm pretty sure you're not going to give it to me. :)

  • 3 years ago

    Allison, I do have a low table similar to a coffee table, and a sofa table. I could set something on the table. Maybe a plant in a narrow pot.


    Jilly, where on the floor is your table?


    But Fori, you may win 1st place if I do put it on the bench!

  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago



    This lounge chair is currently in storage in the garage. I had made a head cushion for it (with loops to hold it in place) that I now use elsewhere, but we no longer have a place to put this chair. The matching table is still in the living room, however, as is the ottoman, which I still use.

    This set was made in Ghana, and I bought it in Leimert Park, where there are a lot of African shops.

  • 3 years ago

    Lars, that's such a cool chair.

  • 3 years ago

    I have a place in mind for that, too, Lars.


    I don't know what to do with this (might look good on Oakley's little table):



  • 3 years ago

    Well now Fori, I don't know about that. :) A vase? It would be cute for a single flower in the summer.

  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    I have a somewhat similar vase to Fori's:


    I just have it on a bookshelf, and I never put anything in it. Mine is Quezada, from Mata Ortiz, Chihuahua, Mexico, but I bought it in Tucson.

  • 3 years ago

    Here's another photo of that corner of my living room that is more recent:

    This shows a diamond shaped (in footprint) vase from Honduras, in which I stored a Bavarian walking cane and a couple of African fishing spears. This is one of the few vases I have in which I have put items, but it is not watertight, I think. I put dried flowers from one of my succulents in it also. It all seems a bit random, but the colors go together.

  • 3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Here is mine. Picked up in Tokyo when we lived there back in 2010. Solid, heavy metal, 6" x 6". It has been in its original box since then, in different closets, in different houses! Not sure why I ever bought it because I'm not into hanging things outside! I think it is a bell you ring before entering a Shrine?

    I just spent 10 minutes digging out a splinter I got from the rope ... maybe a sign I should drop it off at the local charity/resale store!


  • 3 years ago

    Lars, the two vases are very similar. Does your vase have any markings o the bottom? Fori, does yours?

    Chispa, ouch!!!! I'd hang it outside, maybe from a tree?

  • 3 years ago

    Chispa, hang it in my yard, by the front door. Wear gloves!


    My vase is actually supposed to be an olla, and it is terrible as a vase because it has a round base. It's quite large and it is. not. stable. :)


    It is signed by a Mata Ortiz artist but not by Quezada. The black-on-black thing is one of the common looks from there (that's a real art term!) and it's pretty neat. Useless because it rolls, but neat.

  • 3 years ago

    Mine is signed by Oscar Quezada, and it also has a round base, and so I bought a yarn-wrapped ring with it when I bought the vase.