Home: GLD: Make Old Furniture Fab

This week, I had the contradictorily unpleasant pleasure of moving into my first-ever very-own house. The actual move was bad enough. Now, the thought of unpacking and reorganizing all my worldly possessions — not to mention cleaning out the wretched basement, eliminating omnipresent drywall dust, I won’t bore you with more household details — makes me break out into purple hives. My only solace: The realization that

This week, I had the contradictorily unpleasant pleasure of moving into my first-ever very-own house. The actual move was bad enough. Now, the thought of unpacking and reorganizing all my worldly possessions — not to mention cleaning out the wretched basement, eliminating omnipresent drywall dust, I won’t bore you with more household details — makes me break out into purple hives. My only solace: The realization that, as a homeowner, I am duty-bound to fill my very own dwelling with righteously stunning furnishings and appointments.

My first mission: Reupholster a Sixties-chic couch and ottoman scored from Old City’s Reform. If I have my way — and, let’s face it, I usually do — I’d get Fishtown-based custom upholstery designer (and Philly Mag Home crush; check out her “Wings” pattern in our spring issue) Lauren Rossi to redo the honey blonde wood pieces with her absolutely one-of-a-kind hand-screened fabrics. Rossi’s new website recently launched. So addictive is it, with its splashy florals and organic geometry and stunning brights, that you’d think it was thesuperficial. Or, at least, bluefly.

After all: A house is like a closet, just bigger.