Nancy Reagan and I have nothing in common (I am one of five people who voted for Walter Mondale), except that we both love the color red. I was googling Gustavian furniture when I found this photo of her in the white house. I could live in this room. The couch, by the way, is Gustavian. I love her dress too. Nancy Reagan wears a lot of red. I have one red jacket.I've never painted a room red, because I move too often and don't want to have to repaint a red room. It takes a thousand layers of neutral colored paint to cover red.
I love the red Chinese Chippendale chairs. They just pop. And if I could have any bed I wanted, it would certainly be this Gustavian, red checked bed. Love it, love it. Will never have it, unless I win the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstake this year.
How I would spend my Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstake ($10,000,000):
1) A new Gustavian bed with Egyptian cotton bedding.
2) Have my leather chair reupholstered.
3) Buy Tom that colossal camera lens he craves.
4) Spend winters in a warm, sunny climate.
5) Shoes in every color
6) Plastic surgery here and there.
What I really want right now is a Bear Claw from Backer's Bakery. And I can afford that!
How would you spend $10,000,000?
You definitely need a $30,000 Kluft mattress for that bed. Ronald Regan furnished all the bedrooms in the White House with Kluft mattresses. I got one last year and can't live without it. I would spend the entire $10,000,000 on 6 acres of private beach property in Sands Point, custom house with a horse for Tom and unobstructed views of my city penthouse across the Sound.
ReplyDeleteGee, I thought my Stearns and Foster cost an arm and a leg!
ReplyDeleteYou are wearing your red jacket in the picture of you and Dawn together in AZ, so you must like red enough to pack it across a couple of states.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a room like the one you posted a week or two ago, with the big wall library.
If I had $10,000,000 I would hire a gardener and a cook and I would travel. I would buy a new mattress too since mine is 18 years old and not comfortable. But I am cheap and would never buy a $30,000 mattress.
Red suits you.
ReplyDeleteWe had to put about five coats of red on our entryway walls. I love how it looks but wow. I'd think twice about doing THAT again.
I would liposuction all that baby bulge right out of sight. And I would definitely travel in style. I have a Stearns and Foster Mattress on a red bed that wished it were a Gustavian in Phoenix. It could be a cheap imitation for you next winter.
ReplyDeleteI would go to the Cordon Bleu in Paris and get my culinary magic on, and pay off our debts, and build us a house. And then I would buy a small cattle ranch for my husband in Montana and then my husband and son and I would travel until our guts fell out.
ReplyDeletePaint your walls red. You only live once. Just don't use a Ralph Lauren red or you will need 20 coats. When you repaint, just use a light grey primer underneath and one or two coats of topcoat should do it. Go for it.
ReplyDeleteThat room Nancy's standing in makes me think of France. Makes me wonder what century you would live in if you had to pick another.
ReplyDeleteI looooove the red, love those chairs and I would simply kill to have any mattress besides my own if I had money. Ha!
Hmm...that question deserves contemplation. I'd buy back the ancestral olive ranches in Italy, the ones with a view of the leaning tower of Pisa. Then I'd pay someone to landscape it out like Disneyland. Something flowering always. Then I'd live there and get fat on pasta.
ReplyDeleteOh, I'd also buy a membership to Club 33 in Disneyland. All employees would have to call Me Mrs. Larkin upon my entering the park. However much that would cost?