Last evening, my bestest childhood friend and I went out for a girls' night on the town, whooping it up at a bunch of great girly hangouts: Lowe's , Home Depot, and Menard's...
What strikes me about these places is, they stock all manner of building and decorator supplies, and most of the so-called designer stuff is just plain ugly. Do people really put three-by-four foot mirrors with eight-inch wide brassy gilt pseudo-Egyptian frames in their houses? If they do, are they really under the misapprehension that it makes them look classy?
And, why do almost all exterior lighting fixtures look as if somebody stuck a puny light bulb into a brass Statue-of-Liberty torch? For every one attractive and tasteful porch light, there were at least fifty tacky, cheezy brass monstrosities. I realize that shopping at these builders' outlets, we weren't exactly going to find the stuff that Rejuvenation catalog carries, but do they really have to make so darned MANY tacky, ugly, vulgar displays of poor taste with wires? Of course, I can't really complain about tacky, because I have a soft spot for one of Rejuvenation's special pieces, the nouveau-ish Bat and Serpent ceiling fixture...
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