The doorbell rang this morning and much to my surprise there stood Joe Kerr the famous decorating guy from Decorating with Dada. He had with him bearded fat guys with cameras and a skinny guy with a microphone on a pole.Of course I was somewhat taken aback by this and inquired as to WTF. He explained that they were here to do a ‘Decorating with Dada’ makeover of our living/family room. Now I was happy with the way it was but he said that millions of viewers were hoping to see this weeks makeover so I, with reservations, said OK. They spent about 15 minutes (with commercials) to change things over and then brought me in, blindfolded and this is what I saw.
Then they took the blindfold off and here is the result of their dada makeover.
My first thoughts were “brilliant, awe inspiring,and whimsical.But then I am on the cutting edge of decorating and crap so I will let Joe explain.
Basically what I do with the Dada method is to bring to decorating what Benoit Mandelbrot brought to mathematics. Notice that the plant is not a straight line and how it jerks your eyeball quickly to the right while at the same time invoking a sense of lassitude which then causes your other eyeball to jerk to the chair and invoke a sense of I should be sitting there. The ottoman creates a whimsical faux focal point that really points to the focal. Of course having the lamp no where near a point where it could be used is one of the founding elements of Dada Decorating. All in all I’m very happy how things worked out. Just another brilliant dadaish decorating job. Beats the crap out the stuff done by that guy Art Deco
So that’s it. I find it a unique arrangement to live with but there is no limit to the level of inconvenience to live with cutting edge decorating.