lectrix_lecti buys stuff for her home, part seventybillionth

[lectrix_lecti]

God, I hate web auctions. I hate auctions, full stop.

BUT for once I managed to slip in the highest bid, for this:



It's rosewood, and it's as politically incorrect as they come, strictly speaking. However, this tree was chopped down in the 70's.

And it's big and it has a nice big shelf underneath and it's gorgeous and it will look brilliant in our brown-and-white living room.

Comments

[1975sherpa.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love it!

Our furniture is mostly made of teakwood, our dinnertable+chairs and huge cabinet are made of old re-used teakwood. It was apparently used in houses in Indonesia or something (at least, that's what we're told) so it's old, won't come apart etc. Great!
But our floor, tsk me, is made of politically really incorrect Tauari wood which comes from a rainforest in Brazil *shame shame*. We heard that when they delivered it, before that they told us it was very correct wood. It's really pretty but incorrect. And we won't do business with that woodseller anymore, nor recommend him to anyone.

[lectrix-lecti.livejournal.com]

It's a damn hassle getting the white-hatted wood from those areas. But oh the pretty. And tsk you indeed, but what can you do when you have the floorboards already? It doesn't help binning it and buying something else (for those who can afford such extravaganza).

Have I seen photos of your floor? If not, it must be rectified.

[1975sherpa.livejournal.com]

Oooh imagine binning 40m2 of floorboards :(

We carpeted (?) the whole ground floor with it, we really like the result, and had a lot left over floorboards. Which now are in the garden for our square foot garden project (painted green, but still).

I'll get you a pic, okay?