{"id":665,"date":"2008-05-15T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-05-12T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:21:21","slug":"steampunk-decorating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Steampunk Decorating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/steampunk.png\" alt=\"Steampunk Lamp\" title=\"Steampunk Lamp\" width=\"117\" height=\"125\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Writer Richard Morgan was commissioned by the <I>New York Times<\/I> to write a piece on steampunk culture, which was then cut for reasons unknown.  He&#8217;s put the article online, and it has some lovely ideas for adding steampunk elements to the home.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her living room features a chemical flask as a vase, a brass steamship clock (a wedding gift), a three-foot-tall 1930s-era radio she found at a garage sale, an ornate brass lamp with red glass she bought at a bazaar in Istanbul, thick red velvet curtains, dark wood flooring, a dulcimer handmade by her husband\u2019s grandfather and distressed Victorian floorlamps with frosted bowls. For a few dollars a pound, she scrounged a salvage yard for a sack of gears that she is using to replace the knobs on her bedside tables. Her bed itself is lit with a brass swing-arm lamp she bought at a thrift store for $10. Her pride and joy is a self-made sun jar in her kitchen, a shredded $6 solar light she put in a frosted hermetic jar to use as a nightlight (it charges during the day and glows at night).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve long admired the steampunk ideal of &#8220;retro-futurism,&#8221; and love the vibe of mass-produced mixed with one-off craftsmanship.  This piece has a lot of ideas for making simple design changes that have a big impact, such as replacing drawer knobs with old gears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmandrigor.com\/clips\/self-steampunk.html\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, the <I>Times<\/I> eventually ran its own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/08\/fashion\/08PUNK.html?_r=2&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">piece on steampunk<\/a>, which includes some interesting links.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Richard Morgan was commissioned by the New York Times to write a piece on steampunk culture, which was then cut for reasons unknown. He&#8217;s put the article online, and it has some lovely ideas for adding steampunk elements to the home. Her living room features a chemical flask as a vase, a brass steamship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}