Nice Things

[rbeck]

(Please excuse the lack of legs, they were removed and stored in drawers for transportation. Also mirror is not pictured but it was included.)

My girlfriend and I put an offer on a house a few weeks ago that didn't get accepted, but in a weird small world coincidence it turned out that the seller was one of my college professors who I've kept somewhat in touch with professionally.

Since it was his father's house which he inherited, and he was just trying to clear it out I reached out to him to see if he was interested in some extra cash for some of the furniture. There was a bunch of furniture that we loved, but this Johnson Carper set stuck out in particular. He wasn't interested in selling, he just wanted it gone and was happy to give it to us for free. I don't know much about mcm resale value, but I gotta imagine this set could easily sell for at least $700 or so. 

We just had an offer accepted yesterday, so hopefully everything looks good after inspections and this stuff doesn't have to live in my parents' dining room to long. 

Bedside table, tallboy, lowboy with mirror, and headboard. Also got a cool hanging wall lamp that I don't have a good picture of. 

[Double 0 Soul]

That's great news! congrats on the furniture .. but more so the house purchase, no mean feat in today's economy

[rbeck]

1 minute ago, Double 0 Soul said:

That's great news! congrats on the furniture .. but more so the house purchase, no mean feat in today's economy

Thank you, I'll make sure to post pictures once it's furnished in a couple months! We got lucky finding a place $75,000 less than our budget which feels feels great. 

[tg76]

On 2/8/2025 at 6:32 AM, Double 0 Soul said:

I ordered this Phlegm book last week in a frenzied.. fastest finger first purchase
It was on the doorstep when i got home

Signed copy

It's a book his etchings over the last few years

Sorry about the low light grainy quality.. i can afford frivolous art books, yet i can't afford a decent phone or even light bulbs

..a fold out print too which is a nice touch.. really good value for £20 from his BigCartel

 

No so much for £200+ from scuzbag bot resellers...

 

Nice! Love his work, He's done a few murals down in Dunedin, I visit them every time I head south, I'll go take the same photos I take every time when I'm down there in a few weeks

[Dr_Heech]

Feel daft putting this in the Nice things thread, but l've had it hanging around in the loft for donkeys years and it's just found a new owner so.

It complies to something nice that l love within my home but also it was my home on and off for a couple of years away back in my yoof.

 

Macpac super lightweight backpacking tent, which l bought in June 1996, packed away in 1999 and hardly used since. Certainly not used in the last 20 years. 

Selling point for me that it was the lightest tent on the market at the time and is quick and easy to use. I hiked it around Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand for nearly 2 years and at one point it was pitched in one place for two months! It really was compact living. 

And in situ in the garden with his mate's tents..

 

 

Hopefully my son will get into using it more often. 

 

 

Edited March 29 by Dr_Heech
To edit obvs

[tg76]

Macpac from that era was a nice thing. They were an innovative company that did loads of R&D, prioritized repair over replace. 

Sometime in the 2000s they were bought out by the founder of Kathmandu, and she turned it into just another mass market made elsewhere, cheaper to replace than repair.  (still better quality and design than Kathmandu stuff IMO, but not the great NZ product it used to be)

[PartTimeBarista]

There was some coffee talk here not too long ago. I, too, have achieved good results with just a Breville Barista Express. Last winter, I was very spoiled with a La Marzocco gs3 and a Mahlkonig e65s in my house that were related to a business which I have since sold.

[Maynard Friedman]

@PartTimeBarista - that looks more like the work of a full-time barista. Flat white?

Bravo!

[blooming]

Nice home setup. I ran a cafe in its early days on a k30 and a gs3. Sometimes a simple setup gives wonderful results.

 

I may be going back into the professional coffee world after a 6 year break. I miss making my whole life coffee...

[PartTimeBarista]

Overkill for a home setup, but worked great for a catering cart!

[blooming]

I always forget about the idea of being a for-hire barista with a cart. I've seen successful cafes that started off that way, might be worth looking into... a single group Synesso would be my vibe.

[Talan]

A miniature and very cheap (around 1 USD) coffee filter. I bought it during recent trip to Vietnam. It’s used everywhere there. I also discovered the world of Vietnamese coffee, learning that Vietnam is one of the main coffee exporters in the world. The most popular coffee there is robusta. But my favorite coffee at the moment is luwak.

[redragon]

Elegant bookmark I got a really long time ago

[Cold Summer]

A couple months ago, I got another old car - a 1986 Toyota Cressida. It’s rear wheel drive, powered by a 2.8 L straight six, super comfy, and in amazing condition with 145K miles on the odometer. 
 

 

[rbeck]

13 hours ago, Cold Summer said:

A couple months ago, I got another old car - a 1986 Toyota Cressida. It’s rear wheel drive, powered by a 2.8 L straight six, super comfy, and in amazing condition with 145K miles on the odometer. 
 

 

Cressidas are sick. My buddy has one that he put a chandelier in. His is slammed though, much prefer them at the normal ride height. 

[reallypeacedoff]

What's the front plate?

[chicote]

Damn that’s so sick @Cold Summer!!

I just got an old Toyota too, a ‘77 pickup. Took the train out to Montana and drove it back, had absolutely no issues until I blew up the engine last week from not tightening a coolant hose clamp down tightly enough. It’ll be back on the road soon, I hope …

 

[Double 0 Soul]

Lovely cars!

I thought you was all socially conditioned to buy massive trucks?

[Broark]

20 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

I thought you was all socially conditioned to buy massive trucks?

Don't you worry, this is probably his other car.

/s if it wasn't obvious.

[Double 0 Soul]

Don't start instigating conflict again.. i was almost asked to leave the thread last time.. the thread i started

 

[Cold Summer]

3 hours ago, reallypeacedoff said:

What's the front plate?

Fake Japanese license plate I designed!

• My name in Kanji 海琉/Kairu/Kyle where the prefecture kanji would go
• My birth month/day 3/19 next to it, which is also in the correct 300-number range for a passenger car with > 2.0 L displacement,
• "Ro" hiragana for the first two letters of my last name
•  And 77401, the zip code of where I grew up!
• Color is green on white, also accurate for a > 2.0 L displacement passenger car in Japan.

It's all a bit silly and tongue in cheek, since, among other things, this is a US-market Cressida and not a JDM car (don't even get me started on people who use "JDM" to refer not to Japanese domestic models, but "any car by a Japanese manufacturer.")

39 minutes ago, Double 0 Soul said:

Lovely cars!

I thought you was all socially conditioned to buy massive trucks?

Big stupid monster trucks are virtually the default vehicle where I live, so you're not off by much! I frequently rant about the absurdities of giant bro-dozer truck culture, and my taste in personal vehicles, inclining toward retro luxury saloons, is very much the opposite of all that.

5 hours ago, rbeck said:

Cressidas are sick. My buddy has one that he put a chandelier in. His is slammed though, much prefer them at the normal ride height. 

Slammed Cressidas look cool, but I doubt they ride all that smoothly. I don't really want to sacrifice a comfortable, quiet ride for the sake of aesthetics, so I'd only go for a slightly lowered look. The way that I appreciate/use my car is a bit more in line with something like a Mercedes W123 or W124, Volvo 240 or 740, and that sort of thing.

[redragon]

No explanation needed...

[Maynard Friedman]

I used to have a Mitsubishi too but it was stolen so I threw the key fobs away. I didn’t think they were that nice.

[Cold Summer]

Mitsubishi runs from "incredibly sick, cool cars" like the Lancer Evo IX to "fiberboard economy box trash" like... well, unfortunately, mostly everything they make nowadays.

[Maynard Friedman]

My Mitsubishi was an A6M Zero

[Broark]

Only thing interesting that Mitsubishi makes these days (that I'm aware of at least) is the Jimny, which isn't sold in the US unfortunately.

[Double 0 Soul]

The Jimny is a Suzuki over here?

[reallypeacedoff]

My first car was a ~89 Mitsubishi Colt GLX. $500. Around the same time, the VIII came out so I put on a suit, parked a few blocks away from the local Mitsu dealership and took it on a drive, told them my wedding photography was flourishing. Amazing car but way too much money for me, fresh outta high school. Ended up enjoying WRX STis too much anyways.

[julian-wolf]

Maybe not the best cars on the market, but offset hood bumps on the first- and second-gen Eclipses are absolutely timeless to me

[Hopethisoneisnttaken]

2 hours ago, Double 0 Soul said:

The Jimny is a Suzuki over here?

I think it’s Suzuki everywhere. Couldn’t find a reference on google on Mitsubishi Jimny.