Finally found a Boomerang coffee table

[petek]

I knew one would turn up eventually and so it did this morning at a yard sale. I almost walked right on past it in the excitement of spotting a vintage mixer. It looks to fit my vintage sofa perfectly but I really really need to paint the walls in this rek room, the pukey yellow doesn't go at all with the lime green sofa. Anyone got any suggestions what might be a good wall color choice and not white or off-white etc. I need it to be colorful to match my sparkling personality.

No the cuckoo clock isn't staying I just put it there to put it somewhere.. I have plenty of vintagey wall stuff, clocks, paintings

 

[petek]

And the mixer, a Kenmore rebadge of something? Needs a cord and some work and a bowl which I may have already

 

[polkanut]

Harvest Gold!!!

 

[tlee618]

Wow Pete, I love the coffee table and that is a cool mixer. I remember those well.

 

[foraloysius]

Harvest gold

Gold is a good color for a sparkling personality! LOL

All fun aside I think the color of the sofa is not easy to combine with other colors. Harvest gold would go with it. The rail on the wall needs a different color too. And what about a linoleum floor?

 

[panthera]

pete,

You can change these color values in any programme even Paint to experiment.
These are values from your room and furniture. Probably all too dark. If you should like one, let me know, I'll be happy to tell you the exact rgb on it.

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[panthera]

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[hydralique]

Great Table!

I'd be tempted to have it redone in boomerang Formica, but then again that's just me.

What with the wood finish I can see it on a nice sculptured high-low carpet, preferably facing an RCA, Zenith, Magnavox or Curtis-Mathes TOL console stereo/TV. Just the proper place to take in an exiting episode of Perry Mason, or maybe I Dream of Jeannie!

 

[jeffg]

Anything other than wood paneling and orange shag carpet just wouldn't do that sofa justice.

 

[bugsyjones]

There's a slightly different boomerang table like that at a local Antique Store. They want $$$$ for it though. The same booth has a set of two tulip chairs with matching side table for $300 firm. There's an awesome black leather MCM sofa, and plenty of 'atomic' or 'Sputnik' clocks.

~Tim

 

[panthera]

lawrence suggests

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[butch-innj]

I think it needs some color.....

 

[mixergal]

I love that sofa!

Looks comfyer than my mid-century sectional. I really need a boomerang table for it too - there's just no substitute!

Yay! Congrats on a great find! Sorry I can't help you with the Kenmore - its outside my field of knowledge, but it IS very cool!

-Sherri

 

[mixergal]

Oh, and as for color....

When going vintage, use a vintage palette of colors for decorating.

Submitted for your approval:

 

[spankomatic]

Wow,Nice Sherri! I love the clock and the wall art.

Jim

 

[mixergal]

Hardwood

would also look good:

 

[mixergal]

Thanks Jim,

Before I became a painter, I started out studying graphic design. Sometimes I'm still called on to teach Photoshop and Illustrator at the college on top of art history (the primary subject I teach).

-Sherri

 

[mixergal]

Oops! forgot shadows!

I thought the floor looked a little goofy in that last one!

Here's your room again with hardwood floors (this time with shadows) and the original wall color, but no chair rail. The wall color isn't bad, it's the chair rail that looks awkward to me.

Sorry the outline on the floor is a little rough - I should have cleaned up my selection a little bit. I do like the gold color I put on your walls first - I think it makes the couch color "pop". Oh, I also re-colored the frame on your mirror to match the wood color of the table better. It's not a perfect match, but here it's in the same color family.

And finally, and the wall-art thingy (this is its actual color) and the clock are both on eBay right now

Okay, I'll quit now

-Sherri

 

[petek]

Wow I'm stunned with everyones input. Every single one looks better and yes that chair rail has to go. I'd never have thought of that.
I have a couple of starburst clocks, not that size though.

The sofa I bought back I think in 05 at a thrift store. It looks to have never been used or it was covered in plastic all it's life..I posted pics of it here way back then.. I"ll have to find the ones showing it in the livingroom of our old house.
You can't see it too well in this pic of the old house but the painted wall behind it did make it stand out better

 

[petek]

Here's my smaller electric starburst clock. I have a wooden one somewhere as well.

 

[petek]

And other junk that all needs sorting and displaying properly again
gotta love the hideous chalkware stuff

 

[toggleswitch2]

Petie,

Just painting the chair rail to match the walls will make it visually disappear. Let's not get hasty and rip it out!

And I do like the current yellow.........

 

[sudsmaster]

I'd paint the sofa...

...but that's just me...

LOL...

I'm thinking shocking pink for the walls. Anything to draw one's attention away from that green fabric. OTOH, the sofa is perfect for a rec room if you ever plan to acquire teenagers... after their first beer-bust when you're away on vacation the sofa's color and pattern will tend to mask any stray puke... ;-)

 

[xraytech]

I think to make your room look its best you need a nice sculped rug preferably in gold or sea foam green, and for the walls I would go with either an antique gold or blonde wood paneling

 

[whirlaway]

Wall Hangings

Mixergals got it going.You might even try that rush wallpaper.The type that look like it has papyrus running thru it ,comes in different shades.Also a nice large murano bowl on the table.I was so lucky to find a Nougchi glass boomerang table at an auction.The glass top weighed a ton.I put different murano pieces on it really dressed it up.Bobby

 

[mixergal]

Good call, whirlaway!

Rush or grass wallpaper would be too cool! And a great sculptural, colorful rya rug would be great too. You have a lot to work with, petek - your walls and floors are practically a blank slate.

Let me know if you ever want to sell that couch I got mine at a rummage sale for $25, but the upholstery isn't so great. I've been putting off recovering it because of the cost.

-Sherri

PS- let me know if you want to see other color combinations - I could do this all day

 

[autowasherfreak]

Pete, my roommate and I painted our living room in our old apartment Antique Gold. I think we got the paint at Home Depot,one of the Baer Paint colors.

Sherri, awesome job with PhotoShop! I use PhotoShop 7, but only to enhance and re-size my pictures, really should learn more about it.

 

[autowasherfreak]

Opps, that's Behr Paint.