My Oh So Awesome Husband…
Posted By Amy on January 29, 2006
Have no fear this will not be an ultra-mushy post. I just wanted to share with you what my very cool hubby bought me for my 30th birthday.
Is this the coolest or what? I am absolutely in love with it. The “real life” picture he bought me is actually 3-4 feet tall and a little over 2 feet wide with the frame and matting and everything. It looks so amazing!!!
It’s going in the dining room of the new house on a wall that is going to be painted a deep blue (a shade of dark blue in the picture).
I originally found this picture at a local shop here in town when I was out shopping with my mom on her birthday. I absolutely fell in love with it. We went in yesterday and I looked through the WHOLE store (all three levels) before finally finding it leaned up against a wall.
As it turns out my husband talked them down in price about $50 (because he can’t just BUY something… it has to be some sort of deal) and they were willing to come down because they had had it for so long. It’s still sitting at the shop back in their lay-away holding area until I pick it up next week.
Fortunately, my mother has been kind enough to donate a teeny-tiny amount of storage space in her garage to hold my precious new purchase until the new house is complete.
The artist is Michael Kungl (and not to misrepresent it here, this is obviously a framed print) but the funny thing is that after doing a search on his name I found that 90% of the different pictures and things that I have been looking at and picking out for the new house – have been done by him! Including several of the pictures that I had sent Ginger when we were attempting to decide a new look for this blog.
Speaking of the new house, we went out there today and… I have WINDOWS and… SLIDING GLASS DOORS! I am so giddily beside myself that it is almost embarrassing, no self-respecting 30 year old should behave this way.
Even though it is still all 2×4′s and cement floors and all very ugly inside… we HAD to walk through it. I walked Maggie inside and she looked around and said, “WOW… WOW… it’s ALL READY!” 2 year olds see things completely different than we do.
It already feels like the whole process is going quickly and completely SLOW all at once. Remember, we put a deposit down on our lot in September, picked out all of our tile, flooring, colors, cabinetry, etc. in October, they trenched in November and started framing in December. It’s supposed to be ready by the beginning of April. I can’t wait!
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Congratulations on getting your cool picture for your diningroom!
I know my hubby and I have done the same thing unwittingly. Your tastes run a certain way, and then you end up with 3 or 4 by the same artist.
3T
3T Thank you! I absolutely love this piece. The same artist has some really cool coffee prints that I plan on picking up as well for the kitchen.
This is the first time I’ve actually realized that my taste was running along the lines of one particular artist… so it was really a surprise.
Cool picture. Too art deco to fit my decor (we’re more modern), but deco is cool, too, and I love the whole cigar thing.
Your husband, both in taste and negotiating style, sounds like a man after my own heart.
– howard
Howard Thanks! I love the cigar thing too, it definitely reminds me of my hubby who, as I mentioned before, is the coolest (today anyway, that can change at a moment’s notice)!
That is a very cool new picture.